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Looking for a craft project for the weekend? One that will potentially cover the entire house with paint and stain your foot with blue paint too (not ideal when you live in flip-flops in Dubai), but will make a very cute memento nevertheless? Of course you do – so why not capture a moment in time by creating family footprint artwork like we did below.

I don’t have any pictures of us making the artwork so you will have to take my word that it is our feet – attempting to stop a toddler running round the apartment with a red foot prevented me being able to do it at the time, whilst the husband refused his photo session (can’t think why).

footprint 2I do have the below picture however of Wilfred’s purple foot in a high chair though, which is actually a great tip for babies as it stops them being able to eat paint and limits the mess. I used a sponge to apply the paint to his foot, before bringing the paper up and pressing his foot down firmly.

footprint 3For everybody else, the set-up looks like the above – poster paint on a plate, a sponge to dab the paint evenly over soles of feet, a bowl of warm soapy water to step into straight after we’d made the prints, and a towel to dry feet afterwards.

footprint 4Then simply cut each footprint out, with a small white border around each foot and arrange them onto a sheet of paper, using stick glue to secure it all. I used the same colour paint to write ‘Our Family 2014′ as the smallest footprint, which I think works well.

I think we’ll do this every few years to see how quickly the boys’ feet grow (I think every year may be overkill as we don’t have a gallery for hanging pictures).

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