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.

I don’t know why Pinterest just suddenly decided I needed to see all the content about task cards and task boxes for kids, but these ideas are great for the classroom to keep in centers or have on hand for early finishers. You can also use them at home as quiet bags or boxes for kids to use when younger siblings might be sleeping, or in the car for a non-screen activity.

Let’s take a look at some fine motor skill task cards and how you can use them to teach kids skills while they play.

Pre-K Pages has a nice set of playdough task cards you can use in boxes or bags with a little tray (or they can just work on the table if they are sitting at a table). Working with clay or play dough is a great fine motor skill exercise, or you can add these to your playdough center if you have one to give them a little bit of direction while they work.

Teaching Mama has a bunch of great ideas for fine motor task boxes, from practicing working a glue bottle to threading beads, using clothespins or scissors, dropping water, finger painting and more. There’s a free printable that shows all the task options she talks through in the post if you want to make your own little boxes, or just keep these ideas on hand when you’re ready to add some fine motor fun to your days.

One of the ideas she mentions in that post is working with a hole punch, and Early Learning Ideas has a whole bunch (the urge to write “hole bunch” is strong) of ideas for printables that help kids practice hole punching, whether it’s a strip with circles on it for them to punch or pictures that include circles for punching, these ideas make it a little more fun to practice this important skill.

My Happy Place Teaching has a whole post about using fine motor task boxes in kindergarten, and her paid resource includes more than 100 task ideas with printables. But if you don’t need 100 boxes you can still get some good ideas from this post about different tasks to include and why and when you can use them. She also mentions using them in the morning while you’re busy with kids coming in at different times, which is a great idea.

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