Homemade Christmas Presents – Handprint Oven Mitt

People who love to cook can always use a nice new oven mitt. Why not make this special handprint oven mitt craft to give to your favorite cook for Christmas? The craft is very simple and fast to make because it uses a store bought oven mitt as the base.

To make a handprint oven mitt, you will need:

• Store bought oven mitt in a solid color
• 5 inch by 5 inch piece of matching fabric
• Fabric marking pen*
• Double sided iron on interfacing**
• Scissors
• Iron
• 5 inch by 5 inch cardstock scrap
• Hole punch
• Piece of ribbon
• Regular marker or crayon

How to make it:

1. Begin by ironing your fabric to be sure it is nice and smooth. (Parents should help younger children with all ironing steps to make sure they don’t burn themselves.)
2. Once the fabric is smooth, turn it over so that the right side (the one that looks nice and bright) is face down on the table. Put your hand on the fabric and trace around it.
3. Use your scissors to carefully cut out the handprint.
4. Trace your handprint again on your iron on interfacing and cut the interfacing handprint out.
5. Make a handprint mitt sandwich. Place your mitt on your ironing board. Put the interfacing on top of the mitt where you want the handprint to be. Add the handprint so that it is on top of the interfacing with the right side of the fabric facing you.
6. Iron the interfacing so that it fuses the layers together. (This is a fancy way to say that you are making it all melt together like a grilled cheese sandwich.)

Now, all you need to do is to make the tag that will let the person you are giving this special mitt to how special the gift is:

1. Use your marker or crayon to trace your handprint onto the cardstock and cut it out.
2. Punch a hole in the handprint.
3. Write this handprint saying on the cardstock: “When you need a helping hand in the kitchen, please take one of mine. I’ve put it on this special mitt, so you’ll have it all the time.”
4. Tie the handprint to your oven mitt’s hanging loop with the ribbon.

You are ready to give your special gift to someone you love.

* This special pen ink washes out or disappears after awhile. If you don’t have one, you can use a regular marker. Just be sure to cut very carefully inside the lines to avoid marker showing through your fabric.
** Steam-A-Seam2 Double Stick Fusible Web makes this project even easier, but is a bit more expensive.

Photo of oven mitt copyright K. Thomas.

Katelyn Thomas is a freelance writer, mixed media artist and busy mom. You can find her parenting and frugal living tips at Mama On the Go.

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