FATHER’s DAY GIFT IDEAS
Bricks
Take a brick and paint it any color with Tempera paint. Paint the bottom of the child’s foot with a different color and print it onto
the brick. Paint or write with marker the child’s name and year on the end of the brick. Seal the whole thing with clear spray paint sealer. These can be used as paperweights, doorstops, yard decorations or just as a knickknack!
Dad Photo
Dress your child up in Dad’s clothes – sport coat, shirt, tie, hat, etc. Pose them somewhere like by the front door or desk, etc. or seat them at the kitchen table with some breakfast and a coffee cup and the newspaper, as if they were reading it. Take a picture and frame it! You can write a little note that says “When I grow up, I want to be just like you!” Or glue the photo to a wooden block and write “Chip off the old block!”
Fishing Photo
Similar to the Dad Photo, dress the kids up in Dad’s fishing gear – vest, tackle box, hat, rod and reel. At the end of the fishing line make a paper fish that says “Dad, you’re a great catch!” You can make a card that says “Fishing You A Happy Father’s Day!”
Buggy Candle
Have the child decorate a small flower pot with red finger prints. Decorate the fingerprints to look like ladybugs. Get a citronella candle and put it in the flower pot, and write on the pot with black sharpie: I’ll try not to bug you…today!
Trash Bag
Let kids decorate a gall sized Ziplock bag for Dad to use as a trash bag in the car. Cut a hole at the top so he can hang it on the stereo knob or somewhere else in the car.
Peanuts
Fill a brown paper lunch bag with whole peanuts (in the shell). Fold over the top and make a little peanut shaped card out of brown paper. On the card glue a peanut shell and write “We’re Nuts About You!” on the inside. Tie with ribbon or raffia inserted in hole punched holes at the top of the bag.
Tool Frame
Make a popsicle stick frame and have the kids glue various things like nuts and bolts, nails and screws, all around the frame. Use Tacky glue or you can help with hot glue.
Stress Ball
Use a funnel to fill a small balloon with flour and tie shut. Attach this poem:
This little balloon of flour
Has amazing Daddy power.
When you’re not feeling your best,
Squeeze it to relieve your stress!
Art Magnet
Take your child’s artwork and either scan or color copy it, but first reducing its size to about 2 or 3 inches. Print on heavy cardstock. Laminate or cover with clear contact paper or brush with modge-podge and attach a magnet to the back.
Dad Hand
Have kids fill a surgical glove with sand and tie a knot. With colored permanent markers, write different things on the hand like To the best Dad, Hands Down! and Happy Father’s Day! I love you! etc. If you fill it very full, they can put these on their desks in different poses, to hold coins, cards, or use as a stress reliever.
Dad Shirt
Take a plain men’s tshirt and with fabric paint, have kids print their hand prints on the back of the shirt. Then write “This Dad Deserves a Pat on the Back!”
Stepping Stone
This is a twist on the poured cement stepping stone. Take a pre-formed stepping stone and decorate it with broken tiles of various colors or the decorative shaped mosaic tiles or letters, gluing them to the stone with glass glue like K6000. The just fill in the gaps with regular grout! You can write the child’s name and year with a permanent marker on one of the tiles as well.
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