Here is the lateset update of the Little Giraffes Handprint Calendar.  You can find all instructions and information for this project at Little Giraffes. You can use 8 1/2″ X 11″ index paper for each calendar page and the cover.  The children’s hands were painted with tempera paint and stamped on the top half of each page with the poem and calendar on the bottom half of the page.  You can bind the calendar at the top.

Free Download: 2016 Handprint Calendar

Archives: 2012 Handprint Calendar (PDF) 2011 Handprint Calendar  

Ways to use it

• Make one calendar per child as a holiday or end-of-year gift for families.
• Paint each child’s hand with tempera paint and stamp the top half of each month’s page.
• Read each month’s short poem aloud before the class makes that month’s handprint.
• Glue a photo of the child on the second page, under the “Hands of a Child” poem.
• Spread the handprint art across the year so the calendar shows how hands grow.
• Invite parent volunteers to help with painting and stamping.