I had a kiddo whose dad was deployed so I decided we were going to send him hugs from our class. We made handprints and then cut them out. I hole punched them and added the string, I measured their arms to with the string so they would be the same length on their hugs. We also made thank you cards and took a picture with our arms out stretched to show we are sending him a hug from our class. The kids loved this and the little boy was so excited to do this for his dad!! It was great!