mother's day handprints

On Saturday morning M and I attempted handprint keepsakes for the grandmothers, great-grandmother, and Godmother for Mother's Day.  I found the idea on Imagination Tree.  M is not big on handprints (as seen here) so it took us a few tries.  The best thing about this project was that when our handprints came out sloppy or, more often the case, not deep enough into the dough, we could just roll the dough up and start over.
To make the dough we mixed 1 cup flour, 1 cup salt, and a little less than a 1/2 cup water.  I ended up adding more flour as the first round proved the be too sticky when we pushed M's hand in.  I used a wooden skewer to make holes that I put string through once they were done baking.  We baked them for a little over 2 hours at 200 degrees on parchment paper and I flipped them about halfway through.
After about 24 hours of air drying I painted them with acrylic paint and added an acrylic clear coat on top.  We wrote "Happy Mother's Day 2012" on the back as a finishing touch.