My daughters and I spent a great deal of time making this Father’s Day poster for my husband. A GREAT DEAL OF TIME! I really hope he loves this poster. I mean LOVES. I want him to want to frame this poster that is how much he appreciates and adores it after how much time it took us.
Now… it should not have taken hours. It should have been a relatively quick project. BUT, I couldn’t find our sticker letters so I had to cut little strips of washi tape and form the letters myself. If that wasn’t time consuming enough, I kept leaving letters out of one word and would have to remove the washi tape and start over. Maybe subconsciously I wanted to spend hours making this poster. Doubtful, but that is the only theory I have for why I kept leaving letters out.
Anyway, I finally had all the letters right (or so I thought), and we painted our poster, let it dry, and removed the sticker letters to reveal our sentence. And what do you think I see? Did you guess correctly? I left out a letter! AGAIN! Are you kidding me! I then gave up on the washi tape and searched my house from top to bottom and found our sticker letters.
Once we had those, we were able to complete the project quickly and I didn’t misspell the word OFISHCIAL. In my defense, this is not a real word. I shouldn’t know how to spell it. Anyway, you must be so excited to make this project now, so scroll down to see how it’s done!
What You’ll Need:
Poster board
Spong
Paint
Sticker letters
Coffee filter (6)
Markers
Pipette or spray bottle
Water
String
Tape
Scissors
Googly eyes
How To:
The first thing you will need to do is place the sticker letters down on your poster to form your sentence. Look it over and make sure everything is spelled correctly before moving on.
Next, cut up a sponge (we used a new one) and choose your paint colors. Sponge paint the entire poster.
Now it is time for the coffee filter fish. You will need six coffee filters to make three fish. Stack your coffee filters, two in each group. You will have three groups. Color three of the coffee filters with markers. Spray them with a spray bottle, let them sit for a bit, and then separate them and allow them to dry fully. Once the coffee filters are dry, cut a triangle out of three of the coffee filters to form a mouth. Add the googly eyes. Take your other three coffee filters and cut out three tails. One from each to match the fish. Glue on the tails.
If the paint on your poster is fully dry, you can remove the letters. Go slowly. Sometimes part of the sticker stays behind.
Time to hang the fish onto the poster. Cut three pieces of string. Tape one end of the string to the back of your fish by the mouth. Tape the other end of the string to the back of the poster. Because this poster has string I wouldn’t leave it within reach of children.
You’re all done! Despite the amount of time this took us, I am so please with the result and think my husband will love it. Comment down below and let me know what you think. Looking forward to hearing from you!
*Adult supervision required*