The Mom I Want to Be

When loved ones are too far away to hug, send them an embrace through the mail instead! Cut a length from a roll of drawing paper that is as long as your child’s arm span. Ask your child to press his or her hands firmly in an aluminum pie plate filled with red tempera paint. Have your child make a hand print at either end of the paper, fingers pointing out. After the paint dries, write “a great big hug from me to you” in the space between the prints. Roll up the strip, place it in a mailing tube, and ship off to a special loved one.