How to Create a Family Keepsake with Felt Footprints

This felt footprint craft creates a unique family keepsake. This special activity is a fun project for family members to do together. Preserve a glimpse of those memorable years growing up with this creative footprint activity.

family keepsake using felt cutouts

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Hand prints and footprints are fun to compare at different ages and stages of the family.

This simple footprint activity is a sure way to preserve a memorable moment in time.

This activity can be done at home as family activity or as a group project in an early learning classroom where preschoolers can display their footprints on a felt board!

Keepsakes help us preserve memories of special times or events enjoyed together over the years. Create a snapshot in time with this fun footprint activity everyone will enjoy.


Felt footprints craft

The felt footprint craft requires only two materials - felt pieces and a picture frame.

The hardest part will be choosing the color of felt you would like to use for each participant's foot cutout. 

You can plan the activity in various ways.

  • Grownups are represented in one color, kids in another.
  • Each family member has a different color of felt.
  • All family members use the same color felt.
  • Each student chooses a felt color.

 

How to make a felt footprint keepsake

 

make a template for a felt cutout in the shape of a foot

 

Step 1.

Trace one foot of each family member onto cardboard.

Step 2.

Cut out the templates.

 

Felt foot cutouts family memory activity

 

Step 3.

Trace the cardboard templates onto pieces of felt.

Cut out the felt feet.

Step 4.

Cut out a piece of felt to fit inside the frame as a background.

Place the felt foot cut outs on the felt background.

  • Feet can be overlapped in an abstract design, or laid out in order by size.

 

preschoolers make memories with footprint craft

 

Step 5.

Finish framing the picture.

 

Family footprints keepsake

This simple keepsake will preserve memories of preschoolers and family members at certain stages of life. 

Everyone can be involved in the process, and the result is perfect for decorating the home or classroom

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Felt footprints family keepsake craft

 

Follow our Felt board on Pinterest for more awesome crafts and activities using felt!

 

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