Father’s Day Gifts

We have been busy over here making some Father’s Day gifts. My husband much rather receive something handmade than store bought from our daughters, which is great, since us girls love a good crafting session. We’ve spent the entire morning cutting, pasting and coloring, and can not wait to present these gifts to Daddy on Father’s Day.

YOU’RE FIN-TASTIC

Since my husband enjoys fishing, we made one of our gift ocean themed. My husband will definitely enjoy turning this plate around and around to read all of the lovely messages our daughters have written out for him.

As we were making this gift, I was reminded of the last time I went fishing with my husband. It was a long time ago, before our daughters were born. Instead of catching a fish, I caught a crab. When I tried to release it back into the ocean, it fell into the boat and started running around snapping its little claws at me. Have you ever had a crab coming at you with his snappers up and ready to pinch!? I hope not, but if you have, you’ll fully understand why I haven’t gone back. Anyway, scroll down to see how we made this craft.

Materials:

Two paper plates

Scissors

Paint

Paint brushes

Paper fasteners

Sharpie ( If you choose to write on the plate)

Pencil

1. An adult can cut out a fish window onto one of the paper plates. Then, paint an underwater scene onto the same plate.

1. Put the paper plate you just painted (when it is dry), on top of your second paper plate, and push a paper fastener through them both.
2. Use the fish window to trace the same fish onto the bottom plate. Keep turning the top plate and tracing until you run out of room. We ended up with 4 fish.
3. Remove the paper fastener, and the top plate and paint the fish. Once they dry write a message on each fish.

4. Put the plates together again and put the paper fastener back.

That’s it. Now turn the top plate and read each message.

Handprint Flower Bouquet

My husband loves to garden. Our backyard is filled with beautiful flowers and vegetables thanks to his green thumb. We thought it was fitting to give him some flowers on his special day, but since he has enough real flowers, we decided on some handprint flowers. We found this adorable craft on Pinterest, and knew it was the right one to make for his big day. We made a couple of adjustments so we could add some writing, and love the way it turned out.

Materials

Colored cardstock

White cardstock (Large enough to fit the flower bouquet)

Glue stick

Scissors

Black marker

How To:

1. Trace your child’s hand and part of their arm.
2. Now, trace just their hand onto 5 different colored papers.
3. Cut out all of the handprints.
4. Cut 5 long strips of green cardstock.
5. Glue the green cardstock (flower stems) to the white cardstock.
6. Glue down the handprint (with the arm) so it looks like it is holding the bouquet of flowers.
7. Glue the other handprints onto the stems.
8. Cut out white squares that will fit into each handprint. Write down 5 different messages for Dad on these squares. Glue them down onto the handprints.

Your flower bouquet is done!

What are your plans for Fathers Day? Have you made any crafts or have you tried one of these? Comment down below!

*Adult supervision is required*