Family Handprint Flag

Hope you are hav­ing a won­der­ful Labor Day! I’ve been mean­ing to share this for awhile, so I thought I’d (finally) post it on the last national hol­i­day of the summer!

We spent 4th of July in Col­orado for a fam­ily reunion. Since we don’t live there, I wasn’t in charge of most of the plan­ning and activ­i­ties. But, when I saw this flag on Pin­ter­est, I knew I wanted to try to do some­thing like it at the reunion!                                             {Photo Source: Serendip­ity}

With 10 great-grandkids, our paper ended up not being quite big enough to recre­ate that exactly though! We would have needed large butcher paper instead (so keep that in mind if you’re doing this with a large group). But, really, all you need to do this is white paper, blue paint, & red paint (and brushes).

To make, we dipped each child’s hand in red paint once and blue paint once (so each child had two hand­prints on the “flag”).

Since this was being given to Great-Grandma, we wrote names under each hand­print. We had quite the diver­sity of hand­print sizes given an age range from like 15 months to 13 years! Then, we put a lit­tle mes­sage on the sign.It cer­tainly didn’t turn out as per­fectly as I had envi­sioned, and the “flag” is abstract at best. But, it’s def­i­nitely a sweet keep­sake nonethe­less! It was so spe­cial for so much of the fam­ily to be together and  I know Great-Grandma loves her “flag” with hand­prints of almost all of her great-grandbabies!

Do YOU have any spe­cial fam­ily reunion activ­i­ties or traditions?