Santa's Bootprint...I need ideas

[ThreeMusketeers]

We actually have a fireplace this year, and I want to have fun with it. My daughter is 6, so this won't last much longer.

I want to make some bootprints from Santa...anyone have any ideas???

Something that will last, but will be easy to clean and pass for snow.

I thought, baby powder, but that has a smell to it, I think she will be able to tell the difference.

Or any thoughts, something Santa can leave behind?

What have you done with your children??


Last year, one of Santa's bells fell of his sleigh. She is still talking about it.

 

[rentayenta]

Unless you want to leave soot on your carpet, I'm not sure. Could you leave a sooty prints outside?


We have Santa leave cookie crumbs and a tiny bit of milk in the glass as well as Rudolph eating all but 1/2 a carrot.

 

[live4christp1]

How about that magic snow powder. Just add water and walla.....snow.

http://www.raidentech.com/snmasnpo2ozj.html

 

[scotlass]

You can get fake snow,you just add water.
Thats what we use.

Also we mix oat meal and glitter to make Magic food for Santas reindeer.
We sprinkle it on the lawn so they stop at the house..............

OMG Im getting excited just thinking about it !!!

 

[mom2travel]

What about instead of snow, something that resembles soot from the fireplace? That might be easier to fake.
Do you have a coffee table or something that could have a gloved handprint left on it?

Before we had a fireplace we left a special key (that didn't open anything) hung on the front door; Santa would leave the key on the dining room table next to the almost empty milk glass and cookie crumbs on the plate that the kids left out for him.

We've also left "reindeer food" on the front lawn - need to feed Santa's helpers too!

A couple years ago one of our neighbors dressed up as Santa and the other parents took pictures of Santa standing next to the sleeping kids' beds, or filling stockings/putting gifts under the tree

 

[lovetoscrap]

Most of the times that I have heard of this done it was done with flour. Cheap and easy.

 

[Hoodie]

We always had Santa make a mess in the fireplace - of course mom and/or dad needed to clean it up and made a big show of being annoyed with Santa.
Ashes/soot would probably work best, but be pretty messy.

FYI - the Easter Bunny hopped across the newly limed yard one year and left lime bunny prints across the living room. One year he had a hole in his basket and left jelly beans across the floor, out the door, across the yard, into the woods and to the neighbor's house. My mother must have been out there forever in the dark!

 

[Sayla1221]

I was thinking flour, or baking soda. What fun!! I've got my first little one on the way, and I get so excited reading threads like this. I can't wait until he's old enough to get into Christmas stuff!

 

[ThreeMusketeers]

GREAT IDEAS!!!!

So i take fake snow and mix it with water..and walk a boot in it to make the print? Will that work?

The baking powder/ flour is a good idea too!

My husband had the idea of Santa leaving a ribbon on our tree that says

"North Pole award for the best decorated tree 2008"

i love the ideas..keep them coming!

 

[ThreeMusketeers]

What about instead of snow, something that resembles soot from the fireplace? That might be easier to fake.
Do you have a coffee table or something that could have a gloved handprint left on it?

Before we had a fireplace we left a special key (that didn't open anything) hung on the front door; Santa would leave the key on the dining room table next to the almost empty milk glass and cookie crumbs on the plate that the kids left out for him.

We've also left "reindeer food" on the front lawn - need to feed Santa's helpers too!

A couple years ago one of our neighbors dressed up as Santa and the other parents took pictures of Santa standing next to the sleeping kids' beds, or filling stockings/putting gifts under the tree

How cute!!!

 

[cinmell]

Also we mix oat meal and glitter to make Magic food for Santas reindeer.
We sprinkle it on the lawn so they stop at the house..............

OMG Im getting excited just thinking about it !!!

We do this too. My daughter looks forward to it every year!

 

[Mouse House Mama]

OMG! I am so going to do the picture of Santa with the sleeping kids!!!!!!

 

[LotsOfQuestions]

We have used baking soda (not powder) to do the footprints. It vacuums up easily and deoderizes at th esame time

We take a boot, place it on the floor and then sprinkle the baking soda around it so it leaves an imprint of the boot on the carpet.

Those years were so much fun!

 

[NHdisneylover]

We have used baking soda (not powder) to do the footprints. It vacuums up easily and deoderizes at th esame time

We take a boot, place it on the floor and then sprinkle the baking soda around it so it leaves an imprint of the boot on the carpet.

Those years were so much fun!

exactly what I was going to post. We did it for years.
Hadley

 

[justjulie]

baby powder

 

[disneyfreakk]

I would use glitter and a stencil because Santa is magical.

 

[luvmylittleboy2003]

http://www.elf-magic.com/cgi-bin/shopper.cgi?preadd=action&key=B00009-SBP

This is cute....

 

[Magic Mom]

We have used baking soda (not powder) to do the footprints. It vacuums up easily and deoderizes at th esame time

We take a boot, place it on the floor and then sprinkle the baking soda around it so it leaves an imprint of the boot on the carpet.

Those years were so much fun!

THat's what we do!!!

 

[luvsJack]

We put baking powder in a pan and put my husband's work boot in it and then pressed on the floor to make the footprints. My fireplace has ceramic tile around it so the footprints were left there. Also we would sprinkle baking soda around like snow falling off his jacket.

 

[MAKmom]

Put flour on a cookie tray & use a pair of work boots. Dip them in the flour. I used to say every year. "O That Santa leaving a mess again" Then just vacuum it up real quick.