{"id":2958,"date":"2010-04-27T10:25:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T16:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/?p=2958"},"modified":"2010-04-27T11:26:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T17:26:16","slug":"handprint-lilies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/27\/handprint-lilies\/","title":{"rendered":"Handprint Lilies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Littlest Apple and I created these handprint lilies last year to give to both of his grandmas for Mother&#8217;s Day.\u00c2\u00a0 Okay, so The Littlest Apple just provided his handprints (and not very willingly, I might add).\u00c2\u00a0 The Picky Apple and I did all of the grunt work.\u00c2\u00a0 This project is best for kids who are old enough to help with the cutting and taping, but I think it makes a great memento for smaller handprints, too!\u00c2\u00a0 I took this photo at my parents&#8217; house yesterday, and as you can see, my mom is still displaying her handprint lilies proudly, nearly 1 year later!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2959\" title=\"Handprint Lily\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Handprint-Lily.jpg\" alt=\"Handprint Lily\" width=\"557\" height=\"742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Handprint-Lily.jpg 557w, https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Handprint-Lily-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since we made the Handprint Lilies before I started sharing crafts on my blog, I&#8217;ll try to walk you through the instructions.\u00c2\u00a0 Sorry I don&#8217;t have a photo tutorial!<\/p>\n<p>What you&#8217;ll need:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>White cardstock<\/li>\n<li>Green cardstock<\/li>\n<li>Yellow pipe cleaners<\/li>\n<li>Green straws<\/li>\n<li>Tape<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Trace handprints on white paper (pink or lavender would also be lovely!), adding a little &#8220;wrist&#8221; to the bottom of each handprint, and cut them out.<\/p>\n<p>Cut out 2 green leaves for each lily you are making.<\/p>\n<p>Cut a yellow pipe cleaner into 2 inch strips.<\/p>\n<p>Wrap the &#8220;wrist&#8221; of the handprint around the end of the straw, leaving about 1\/2&#8243;of the straw sticking out, and tape in place.<\/p>\n<p>To add leaves, you can punch holes in the end to slide them over the straw, and tape in place, or simply tape in place.<\/p>\n<p>Fold the 2 inch yellow pipe cleaner in half, and put the doubled up end into the end of the straw.<\/p>\n<p>Curl the fingers of the handprint back over a pencil, and style as desired.\u00c2\u00a0 My mom put her handprint lilies in some of those vase filler rocks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/27\/handprint-lilies\/\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Littlest Apple and I created these handprint lilies last year to give to both of his grandmas for Mother&#8217;s Day.\u00c2\u00a0 Okay, so The Littlest Apple just provided his handprints (and not very willingly, I might add).\u00c2\u00a0 The Picky Apple and I did all of the grunt work.\u00c2\u00a0 This project is best for kids who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,37,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts","category-holiday","category-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2958"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2963,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958\/revisions\/2963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}