the "branches".
i know you will finish yours much better than my quick sample. with all of the different size of handprints, it was so cute. we put the smaller ones to the top and the larger ones to the bottom. ours was much larger with around 20 "branches" and each "branch" was signed.
as soon as my 16-year-old niece came i explained to her what i wanted to do, gave her the supplies, and she took over. as people came and got settled in, she or one of the other nieces or nephews she had ask to help her, had each guest put their hand on a sheet of the construction 