Traced Hand Pattern – Free Embroidery Tutorial

As a mother, I have been keeping my child’s artwork with her handprints since she was born. I cherish those drawings. Here’s a unique way to capture those keepsakes from One Savvy Mom.

In this tutorial you will find a detailed supply list along with step by step instructions to help you with your project. The stitching is simple so it would be a good project for beginners. As you can see, there is a special added touch…a felt heart in the center. I love that design element, and think it ties the entire design together. The date is also a nice addition, since kids’ hands change so much over the years.

My daughter is too old for this now, but I wish I had thought of making this project when she was younger. This would be an ideal gift for a grandparent or mother or father.

Click here to get the free tutorial: Embroidered Hand Prints

[photo from One Savvy Mom]

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Still looking for more patterns? Check these flower embroidery patterns out on Etsy and these designs over on the DMC blog.

After sharing some witch themed math activities, I found a bunch more fun printable worksheets with a Halloween theme for kids to try, so let’s take a look at some more low-prep Halloween learning fun.

Give kids practice measuring bats, spiders, ghosts and more with these printables from What I Have Learned Teaching. Kids can use a ruler, unit cubes or even little Halloween themed erasers to measure and track the size of the images.

Practice symmetry by drawing half a haunted house, ghost, skull or other simple images with this activity from Printables Hub.

I always love a good roll and draw activity, too, so check out this roll and draw a ghost activity (which has printable instructions) from Finding Myself Young.

Missy Printable Design has a cute set of Halloween worksheets for preschool, including tracing the letter H and a haunted house, spider counting, number tracing, sequencing, coloring pages and more.

The Halloween themed printables from The Artisan Life are meant to be playdough mats, and you can definitely use them for that to make the shape and trace the letters. But you could also use pipe cleaners or Wikki Stix, or line up buttons or anything else on them.

Older kids will enjoy this witch’s brew logic puzzle from Education.com. The witch has made different potions with different colors that do different things, and using the clues you can figure out which one is which. (Don’t worry; there’s an answer key included if you can’t figure it out on your own!)

Another fun puzzle is this decoder activity from Crafting Cheerfully. The holiday icons each represent a letter, and kids can use the decoder to answer the riddle. This isn’t a free resource (and the link in the post is broken but you can find it here) but it includes 20 riddles and an editable file so you can make up your own codes to decipher.

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