This handmade, footprint reindeer apron is festive, useful, and involves your kids, which for me, is the holy trinity of hand-made holiday gifts 😉

My sister and I, along with our kids, made this apron last year for my mom. She loves to bake, especially for the holidays, so an apron was a useful gift for her. And even though my sister and I live in two separate states, we were able to coordinate on this project. She bought the apron and the paint and placed her son’s footprint right in the middle of the apron. Then she mailed the apron and paint to me, and I added my girls’ footprints.

After the footprints were dry, I used additional fabric paints to paint on the reindeer faces, bows, and polk-a-dots. Such a fun gift to make!! And my mom loves it ♥

Materials

White apron (like this one)
Fabric Paint (like these)
Assorted paint brushes
Optional: circle stamp (I made one using an apple corer to cut a circle out of a sponge!)
Children’s feet (preferably attached to children…your children…)

1. Place the footprints.

This is the hardest part. I recommend folding up the apron so you have only the chest square visible (place wax paper between the folded fabric, so paint doesn’t bleed on to the rest of the apron). Paint the bottom of your child’s foot and stamp their foot onto the apron. Paint in some of the foot print if major pieces are missing.

2. Paint on the Reindeer

Once the footprints are dry, use white paint, black sharpie (or paint) and red paint to give the foot prints eyes, noses and antlers. And if you’re up for it, bows are cute on the girl reindeer.

3. Add dots

I used an apple corer to cut out a circular piece of sponge, and then added red, green and white dots to the rest of the apron. This is totally optional though.