Reindeer Footprint Art Project
Ethan and I went on a hunt for a holiday craft that he would be able to do mostly himself to give as a gift. He decided that this Reindeer Footprint Art Project looked like fun. I absolutely 
handprint and footprint art because it helps capture their size and growth throughout the years.
You will need:
- Paint: brown, red, blue and black. We did not have black so we mixed all the colors together.
- Paintbrush
- Green construction paper
- A child
- Paper towels or something similar for cleanup
Construction is rather simple and super easy to “wing”.
- Apply brown paint to the child’s foot. I applied the brown paint directly to Ethan’s foot with a paper towel, simply because we didn’t have a paper plate to step on.
- Guide the child’s foot to the appropriate place on the paper and allow them to step and lift straight off.
- Dip your child’s thumb into the red paint and apply for the reindeer’s nose.
- Using a paint brush and blue paint, give your reindeer eyes.
- After cleaning the paintbrush, use dark brown or black paint to draw antlers on your reindeer!
Ethan had a BLAST making this with me, it was quick and easy and I now have a keepsake with his footprint and thumb print on it. I held Ethan’s hand and guided it to the correct spot for the eyes and well as guiding his hand to make the antlers.
Thanks to Bing Search we were able to find a quick craft, have a little bonding time and create a keepsake memory!
We use Bing search and it always surpises me what all you can find there. Its amazing what projects and crafts and anything else is out there waiting to be done!
cute! my daughter loves art so she would love this- great cheap affordable xmas idea….
OMG so cute and easy. Lila would love to do this. Gotta find the paints.
That is soo cute – and I can imagine kids really enjoying “getting into” it!! I love Bing, in fact, much better than google search.
I’m still in the dark ages when it comes to touch screens. My mindset is still when I had to turn off images because I was on dial-up.
I love searching with Bing, it always find what I am looking for with a few words. Your project I so cute will have to try it out with my grandsons.
This is so cute. My niece would love to do this.
That is so cute! Perfect keepsake to do every year! You can see just how much your child’s foot has actually grown!
I love crafts, I have to admit, but no children to enjoy this…
Looks like fun! My kids would love this.
My kids absolutely love arts & crafts. These are such cute ideas for the holidays. Love them all!
What fun ideas! I am going to have to use some of these for our kids.
What a cute craft idea!
This looks like a fun Christmas craft to try with my little grandson! I’m going to have to check out Bing and see all that they offer.
How cute and what a great thing to do with the kids now. Love this idea. I have one of my grandsons who is an only child so my daughter does lots of projects with him. Think I’ll share this page with her
Cute easy craft, even for the crafty-impaired like me! Off to look for some more ideas with Bing
love this, and I could even do it with my two-year-old!
such a cute idea!
thats really cute we love engaging in xmas crafts! think we might add this one to our to-do list!
Those are some great ideas for cute projects this year!
what a cute idea! i used to make reindeer food
I love a fun art project. This is really cute.
usually use the google for picture search will be trying out bing now. Has been okay with google but would love to see the results of bing
That is so cute! I think it would be easier than getting a hand print from a tiny baby. I like that the Bing search results are less perfect than Pinterest. 🙂
How cute! I love this definitely want to do this with my daughter!!
Thanks for the great bing search show on crafts. I have three two year old grandkids and one lives with us. Her mommy is always looking for craft ideas to do and especially when she was doing day care in our home with 3 other little ones. This would be fun to do with the grand kids when they come over, or any of the others shown for a winter crafts, like the various snowmen ones! Yes, great keepsakes too. Is hard to remember when my lil’ ones were so small. My 16 year old now wears a size 12 shoe. Holy cow they grow fast!
This is so cute. I am going to do reindeer foot prints with my daughter.
I love that idea.. I am going to do that with my boys. So cute.
The new Bing Smart Screen is so awesome that I do not even need to open it in a browser, and I can find all kinds of projects that I want to do. I like the Craft ideas you got when you searched. I will have to start using it. What a great app!
very cute idea and you can save these to show how small the footprints are in years to come!
This is too cute! I love how simple it is. Totally doing it with my daughter this weekend. She loves anything art.
This looks like a great tool for searching for arts and crafts for the kids. I could totally use something like this to help me weed through all of the garbage out there.
i like the foam or ice cube snowmen idea….
I have done the reindeer with hand prints and snowman with the foot print.
I love this craft,i will be doing this with my girls…so cute.
This is a really cute craft! I would love to make this every year with my kids 🙂
I love that!!! That is too cute! I have 3 kids that we would have some serious fun doing this. That is something that would have to be packed away in the Christmas stuff and brought back out every year. I’d frame it. Love it!
cute project, especially for little ones
That is so cool!! I love technology and bing is a really cool toll. I will try it!!
This is so cute- I am going to have my granddaughter put her footprint in art paper and create a reindeer. I tis a great idea to have them do this yearly and track their growth. How fun!
I am going to show this to the pre school teachers and see if they can make it a project.
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this is so cute and would be really fun to do with the little ones 🙂
Such a cute activity. We will be doing this for sure!
That is so adorable we would be doing that soon.
This is so cute. My son would love it.
This sounds like a fun project when the kids are on Christmas break.
Sorry but bing search still is far behind google
I love all the penguin crafts I saw
What a darling idea…perfect to frame & give grandparents as a gift!
I love how quickly and thoroughly it pull sup information!
This is adorable. I may have to do this with Doutzen.
Bing Smart Search sounds great. I will have to check it out. I love the Reindeer Footprint. I have about seven grandchildren that I would love to do this with. It will be fun for all of us.
this is such a cute craft for kids to do
I’ve never used Bing before but you have encouraged me to try it with your great search results! 🙂 I got to try it in the future!!
these are so cute great to give out on a card too the kids would love making these
I haven’t used Bing before, will have to see how I like it. May have to try this project with my daughter.
I have been hearing a lot about Bing, but never really used it. I love this craft project. I will have to try this one and maybe some other ones!
I always want to make things with my munchkins but I am not very creative nor do I know what supplies to buy. This will be helpful.
These are my absolute favorite types of arts and crafts. There is nothing better than looking back on the handprints or footprints of your children. I love the idea of making them festive like this reindeer for each holiday too.
This craft is so cute, this would make an excellent Christmas gift!
This is adorable! What a great activity for when the Grands need something to do.
Those photos are amazing holiday crafts! It’s fun to just look at them.
I’ve been using Goggle but I will try this as it look so much better!
It’s so cute! My son would love doing this.
I can’t wait to do this with my grandchildren. This is the cutest idea ever!
That is such a cute project – it’s like that popular Turkey/Thanksgiving art project only instead of your hand, use your feet for some cute Christmas art.
Love it and love Bing – always use that for my searches.
I know I’ve said this once before, but this really is one of the cutest Reindeer Crafts I’ve seen. I have 3 kids with some cute feet that will make some cute Reindeer.
love the idea and brings back memories.
Looks like a nice search engine and that project looks cute. Thank you for sharing!
That is sooo cute! Bing is so awesome
This is very cool! It almost makes me want to update to Windows 8 🙂 It’s kind of like looking on Pinterest except that it’ll search the entire web!
This would save me so much time searching on the internet. Being a visual type person this just rings my bell!
I really need to try this with my daughter. If it turns out, it will be cool to do it every year and see how her feet grow.
I like that the search results in pictures and not just links.
Great choice of art project. I’ve never seen the reindeer footprint. Great job.
I haven’t used Bing before but it looks like I’ve been missing out on a great way to find things on the web. I definitely have to try it out! Thanks!
The craft is so cute. My girls would love to do that. The search engine is great .
This is the cutest craft idea. I’d like to try it with my kids
This is absolutely adorable…I agree,I love hand and foot print art for the same reason 🙂 I really like how easy it is with windows 8 to search without leaving the page – that is super handy!
Nice little project and too cute. I like Bing too because of the pictures in the result searches
I remember doing this with my kids when they were small! I forgot all about it. and I don’t think I have them. 🙁
The reindeer foot print is such a sweet idea. I would want to frame it and put it out every Christmas. Thanks for the inspiration.
This would be a cute idea to do every year to see how the kids grow!
I should do this project with my girls this year. I like the Bing Smart Search results…. I need to give that a try too.
This is so cute and easy! 🙂
This is adorable – and I love how you had an idea ahead of time of what it could look like, makes it easier to plan a craft, especially if there is a theme involved or helping an entire class of kids to do it ( did this recently…crazy crazy crazy, I may never recover!)
That is too cute. Looks like a lot of fun. My kids love to paint and do crafts.
I really need to start using Bing search more! I had no idea it was that useful.
That’s a super cute art project for the kids too!
i have to start going on this bing search, i just love all these fun crafts.
I love how easy it is to search with Bing, I have been amazed at the results that come up when I’m searching for something…have to know the lingo or you are stuck. Pictures are so much better I agree.
Great project! The kids would love it
This really makes searching for things so simple and easy!! I love the reindeer!!
Love it! We did ours and I see now I forgot the antlers, oops!
I wish I had equipment to get Instagram. My daughter says I have a dinosour phone so not compatable for instagram
awww,thats very cute
I ALWAYS use images in all of my clients’ marketing campaigns,…
it leaves nothing to the imagination, so the message is clear and precise.
What! Really cute! 🙂
This is so cute. Such an easy project and something fun to do with the kids.
The new Bing Smart Screen is so awesome that I do not even need to open it in a browser, and I can find all kinds of projects that I want to do. I like the Craft ideas you got when you searched. I will have to start using it. What a great app! I will begin using this app to look up things so easily!
My niece would love to make this craft. That would be so cute for her and give her something to do. She’s always so bored.
This is really cute! I love the reindeer footprints!
I am not the most crafty do it yourselfer when it comes to stuff like this. I must say…this is the cutest easy idea (that even I CAN DO)!! I know my son would get a KICK out of this!! it’s also a great way to document their feet…while they are still small…lessons learned with my older- they grow so fast!
The Bing smart search is great. Instead of words in a search engine , you get images instantly. I love it.
This is such a great and fun idea to do with a child.
I don’t think my son would hold still long enough for me to get a good footprint! 🙂
I’ve ssen plenty of Thanksgiving Turkey with hands, but the footprint reindeer is awesome! I’ll have to do this with my grandson!
VERY INTERESTING ARTICLE–THANKS FOR THE INFO..
I love the picture searching!!! I always choose image searches, so much easier!
What an adorable and simple idea! I’d love to make this with my daughter, thank you!
Bing sounds like a really great search engine, I love anything that saves time!
So easy to make art projects and to make your own paint just amazes me! Mothers have no excuses to not have a lot of fun with all the easy Arts!
I am impressed with this search. I am going to have to try it out.
Bing smart search makes it so easy to search for anything.
What a super cute craft!
this is very cute and looks fun to make! i saw a similar craft at halloween using a footprint made to look like a ghost
This is so different all sorts of fun,,,,
I am wayyyyy too much of a clean freak for this one, and don’t have children. It does NOT appeal to me.
THIS IS VERY INTERESTING –NICE REVIEW!!
I really havent used Bing very much … I need to remember to use it more often because it is totally different than google search.
I find all kinds of things on Bing. Love the foot reindeer!
My son would love to do this!
this is a very awesome idea – I haven’t seen this anyplace else – very cute
So cute – I wonder what other Christmas animals or creatures you could make with other body part prints!
this is interesting,probably great for kid..i pretty much am still figuring out photoshop
I love the ease with which you accessed what you needed. I will have to try this for my crafts and decorating ideas!
This is so cute, I would love to make Reindeer Footprint of my granddaughter
All I ever get from Google search is pages of ads. I should try Bing.
What great holiday fun !!!! We will have to try this 🙂
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Looks cute! I am going to try the new Microsoft Bing search
I love the new windows 8. I love how you showed the images that come up with the Bing search engine.
That’s great. I was recently wondering what I could do for crafts with the niece and nephew I only got as far as thinking about it. I never did it. If I had only known. I know now. 🙂 Thanks!
The Footprint is such a great Idea, ON my birth certificate years ago they used Foot print as a seal of birth with mothers fingerprints
Really cute art project for the kids. I like how easy it is to do!
I like to use bing for searching for new craft ideas, too. Some of my favorite searches are for fabric flowers, pillows (especially heart pillows), handmade bridal accessories!
I’ve never tried Bing search before, but this is a super cute craft. I would love to do it on an ornament for baby’s first Christmas!
Very cute craft for kids.
Wow – Bing Smart Search came up with a ton of cute art projects for kids!
what a wonderful keepsake to always have and cherish and a fun activity for the family thanks for sharing
My grandchildren would love to do this since they enjoy crafts. I have been looking for a way to
get them different things online to print or make so this great great
My kids absolutely love arts & crafts. These are such cute ideas for the holidays. Love them all!
This is so adorable, I love it! And what a great idea! I have used Bing for a while now and I love it!
i love this i have been looking for crafts like this too! i will be pinning this to my board!
I did not know you could do all this. I have an Ultrabook and will have to try it!
Oh my gosh this is so cute! Wish I would have seen this before the Holidays!
This is so cute and something so easy that I can do with my 4 year old! Thanks!
I love it! This would be a great project for my son! Thanks for the great idea!
Love that! We have Reindeer hand prints. I think this would be a great addition!
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This would be so helpful since I teach preschool and we are always looking for new projects to do
The Bing Smart Search is great for fibding excellent crafts for your children along with simply searching for your everyday needs
Can this be used for macs or windows only?
love the footprint art – we’ll certainly have to try it
so cute! hard to keep the paint on the paper, I bet 🙂
how cute~
lol they need to add a step about removing residual paint from the child … Could I suggest putting that brown paint covered foot in a plastic shopping bag while you apply paint to the thumb. Then clean up all paint off the child at one time without the heartache of cleaning paint off carpet et cetra.
The craft ideas here are awesome!
The reindeer art is cute. Bing will often bring up better search results than some of the other more popular search engines
Fun project! I’ll have to file this away for next Christmas, and check out Bing Smart Search for some other holiday craft ideas to try with the kids.
This is so cute! It’s a great idea for a gift for the grandparents as we always try to have the kids make them something!
I love the reindeer craft. My girls would love to do this. I also like the images on the bing search.
This is so cute ♡♡ gotta do it now
What a great idea! I want to do this with my girls today!
OH so cute! My daughter works in a day care and has two little ones. They are always trying to come up with feet or hand print pictures for crafts. I think they might have done something similar but used pipecleaners for the antlers. Amazing how many animal and other fun things you can make out of prints!
This is super cute. I love that it is super simple to make and clean up. This is totally going on my list of activities to do with my peanuts over winter break.
I love this art. I am going to make it with my daughter.
I love this idea! My neighbors daughter would really like to make one.
This is a very nice and creative project for the holidays. Thanks for the reindeer craft.
What a super cute idea, we made t shirts when the kids were babies for thanksgiving with their feet as little turkeys, this would be a good christmas one!