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Father's Day Crafts Kids Can Make

What you will need: Paper, colored pencils, markers or crayons.

The inside of the card says, "You're level-headed. You're as sharp as a tack. You make sure I measure up. You hold me tight when I am scared. You straighten me out when I do something wrong. And you're just a little bit nutty!" Written by Carolyn Warvel

It is illegal to copy this material and publish it on another web site even if you include the author and copyright.

The pattern for this card is available to members only.

New! Dad, I'm Nuts About You! Father's Day Card Craft

Father's Day Card

What you will need: Colored computer paper, black construction paper, peanut-colored construction paper, scissors, and glue.

What to do:

1. Print out the peanut patterns onto peanut-colored construction paper and cut them out.

2. Glue a colorful piece of paper to a black piece of construction paper.

3. Glue the arms and legs onto the peanut man and glue it onto the colorful paper.

4. Write "Dad, I'm nuts about you!" or something similar on the picture and then glue the small peanuts around the outside of the picture.

Dog Father's Day Card What you will need: Paper, colored pencils,markers or crayons, and glue.

What to do:

1. Draw a picture of a dog with a bone in it's mouth as shown in the picture. If you would like the ears to flop down, draw the ears straight up so that when you cut them out you can bend them down as shown in the picture. Patterns for this craft are available to members only.

2. Cut out the dog, fold down the ears, and glue it to another piece of paper or card stock.

3. Write "Dad, there's no bones about it, you're Top Dog!" on the bottom of the card.

Note: This card uses two idioms. An idiom is an expression or phrase whose meaning cannot be deduced from the literal definitions, but refers instead to a figurative meaning that is known only through common use: "No bones about it" - no doubt, and "Top Dog" - the best. Also the "Big Cheese" card and the "Apple of my eye" card below, use idioms. You can use these cards to introduce idioms to your children.

What you will need: Paper, an apple cut in half, red and green paint, and markers.

What to do:

1. Fold a piece of white paper in half to make a card. At the bottom of the page write, "Dad, you're the apple of my eye. I love you to the core!" A pattern for this card is available to members.

2. Cut the apple in half lengthwise. Squirt some red paint onto a paper plate. Use the apple as a rubber stamp. Rub the apple around in the paint until the cut side is covered with paint. Then stamp the apple onto the front of the card.

3. Use your finger tip to make a worm, and paint a stem and leaves on the top of the apple. Let the paint dry then use a marker to add eyes, legs, and antennae to the worm.

Copyright Notice - Even though many of the crafts on this site are free, they are still copyrighted. They may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, except for use in your local church, school, home, library, and other organizations. It is illegal to copy any part of this craft and place it on another web site, bulletin board, or personal web site even if you include the copyright. To request permission to copy this material for any other use than personal use contact me by e-mail.

What you will need: Cupcake wrappers, 8" x 8" piece of tissue paper, ribbon, computer paper, hole punch, and ingredients to make cookies.

What to do:

1. Print out the "Cookie Filled with Love Poem" pattern onto pink paper (Available to members only) or print it out on a heart shape. *Note - You must include the author of the poem if you are copying the poem.

Cookie Filled With Love
Written by Carolyn Warvel

Dad, I made this special cookie just for you
     It’s to thank you for all you do
I added lots of sugar because you’re so sweet
     You deserve this delicious treat
A little bit of vanilla because you add flavor to my days
    I can’t even begin to count the ways
A teaspoon of cinnamon to spice up the dough
     Because you always pick me up when I feel low.
I’ve also added some things you cannot see,
     But they’re important, I’m sure you’ll agree:
A cup of love and some great big hugs
     But let’s hope there aren’t any bugs!

It is illegal to copy this poem and place it on another web site even if you include the author's name.

2. Make your favorite oatmeal cookies or other cookies that includes vanilla and cinnanmon. Don't forget to throw in some love and hugs!

3. When the cookies are cool place one in a cup cake wrapper and place it in the middle of the piece of tissue paper. Bring up the sides of the tissue paper and tie with a ribbon.

4. Punch a hole in the heart-shaped poem and string the ribbon through the hole and tie it in a bow.

"I have a soft spot in my heart for you!" Felted Heart Card.

This card can be made for anyone. It uses a special technique called needle felting which uses a sharp needle. It should only be attempted by older children with adult supervision.

Needle felting is a lot of fun. It is a lot like working with Fimo clay except you use a needle to sculpt with. You need very few supplies -- just wool roving, needles, and a piece of 2" foam so it is very inexpensive hobby to start. But, beware, it is very addictive. For directions on how to make this card go to the Felting and Yarn Crafts Page.

You lift me up when I am down.
You take time to listen to me, even when I don't have anything to say.
You teach me new things.
You make me feel special.
You carry me when I can't carry myself.
You let me help even when I'm not very helpful.

This card is available in color or in black and white. Print out the pattern and glue it to a piece of construction paper. (Available to members only.)

It is illegal to copy this poem and place it on another web site even if you include the author's name.

What you will need: Typing paper, crayons, scissors, and textured paper or construction paper.

What to do:

1. Print out the bear pattern (Large file or small file) and the bear's clothes pattern (Large file or small file).

2. Color the bear and cut out the clothes patterns. Use the clothes patterns as a template to trace onto textured paper. Cut out the clothes and glue them onto the bear.

What you will need: card stock (heavy paper), yellow construction paper, crayons, yarn for tail and whiskers, tape and glue, marker, pink or red fun foam hearts.

What to do:
1. Print out the pattern or draw a large egg shape on a piece of card stock. Cut out the pattern. Fold down the top of the egg shape to make the mouse's face. Cut out ears and feet shapes and glue them to the mouse. (Printing Problems?)

2. Cut yarn for the whiskers and the tail and tape them to the back of the mouse so that they can be seen from the front. Glue a pink fun foam heart on for the nose or cut a nose shape from construction paper.

3. Cut a cheese shape from yellow construction paper and draw on little circles for the holes. Write "Dad, you're the Big Cheese" on the piece of cheese and stick it in the mouse's mouth. Tape it to the mouse so it doesn't fall out.

What you will need: Legal-sized paper, colored pencils, and scissors.

What to do:

1. Print out the pattern (Large file or small file) and cut the cards out. (Printing Problems?)

2. Color the dogs and fold them as shown.

Dad Rocks Paper weight craft "Dad Rocks" Paper Weight For Kids to make for Father's Day

What you will need: Small rounded river stones, (I found some at Wal-Mart by the house plants), plaster of Paris, paint, tacky glue, tiny googly eyes, permanent marker and a mold.

What to do:
1. Make the mold according to the directions for the sea shell paper weights. Make the plaster cast at least 2 days before you are going to make this craft. The plaster needs time to dry.
2. Paint the plaster cast paper weight and let it dry. Add the words "Dad Rocks!" or whatever you would like it to say.
3. Pick a stone out for each member of your family. Pick ones that remind you of your family. If Dad is the biggest person in your family, than you should pick the biggest rock for him, etc. Glue the stones into the mold using tacky glue. Place the larger rocks in the back and the smaller ones in the front.
4. Spread tacky glue all around the inside of the plaster cast and arrange the rocks.
5. Glue tiny goggly eyes on to each rock. The children may want to add mouths and noses with permanent markers.

pencil holder craft for Father's Day Pencil Holder for Dad

What you will need: old magazines, colored paper, glue, construction paper, and an empty tin can.

What to do:

1. Make sure your can is clean and there are no sharp edges.

2. Cut out words from magazines describing your dad. You can also use the word patterns. Print them out onto different colors of paper and cut around them.(Printing Problems?)

3. Cut a piece of construction paper to fit around your can. Tape it to the can. Glue the different words to the construction paper making a collage.

What you will need: Card stock, crayons, scissors, and tape.

What to do:

1. Print out the pattern for the bears, cut them out and color them. Cut out the curly cue looking thing on the solid lines to make a snake.

2. Print out the card patterns and cut them apart. Tape the bears to the center of the card. Tape the outside end of the snake to the card and the inside end to the back of the bear. This will allow the bear to wiggle back and forth when the card is picked up. (Printing Problems?)

I Love You a Bunch! Father's Day Card Craft

What you will need: Card stock, purple dotters, or ink pad, or purple paint, and a marker

What to do:

1. Print out the grape leaf pattern and cut apart. Use dotters (You can use the kind they use for Bingo to mark the Bingo cards or you can buy them at Learning is Fun or other craft store.) to make the round grapes. If you don't have dotters, you can use your fingers and dip them in paint or an ink pad. You could also use a carrot that has the top cut off to dip in the paint or a round sponge to make the grape shapes. (Printing Problems?)

2. Draw little faces on each grape to finish.

Dad, I'm nuts about You, Father's Day gift for Dad "Dad, I'm nuts about You." Father's Day Gift for Dad

What you will need: Jar with a lid, sand paper, epoxy glue, tacky glue, peanuts or other nuts, paper glue (rubber cement) and gold spray paint.

What to do:

1. If you are using a metal lid, sand it to make it ruff. Have an adult spread the epoxy glue over the top of the lid and then put small amounts of glue on the peanuts and stick them to the top of the lid. Let the glue dry. Use tacky glue (a child can do this part) to glue the rest of the nuts on the top making a pile of nuts. Let the glue dry and then paint with gold or other color of paint.

2. Draw a label on a piece of paper and write, "Dad, I'm nuts about you! Decorate the label and glue it onto the jar.

Daddy's Girl Father's Day gift "Daddy's Girl" Picture Frame - You can also write "Daddy's Boy" or "Just like Daddy" instead of "Daddy's Girl".

What you will need: Camera, clothes to dress like each child's dad such as a baseball cap, a tie and suit, brief case, golf clubs, fishing outfit, etc., card stock, glue, crayons and markers.

What to do:

Take a picture of your child in his father's clothes or doing something that his father likes to do like reading, watching TV, gardening, playing baseball, cooking, working on the car, etc
Cut out a frame to fit the picture and write a saying on the bottom. Have your child decorate the frame.

"You Hold the Keys to My Heart!" Father's Day Card

The inside of this heart-shaped Father's Day card says, "Thanks for teaching me each day and showing me the Way, for helping me to see how I can be Free! ©Carolyn Warvel

Your children will enjoy making a key chain with keys to go along with the card. They can write things their fathers do for them on the keys such as "Gives great hugs, Teaches me right from wrong, etc." The card also come with a lock that can be inserted into the card and a butterfly that can be glued onto the front or inside of the card. This craft is available to members only on The Resource Room. Follow the link - "Key to my Heart Card". (Printing Problems?)

Car air freshener Father's Day gift Car Air Freshener Craft - ©2004, Carolyn Warvel - Here is a gift that just about all dads can use. These patterns can be adapted to look like the child's father or the child that is giving the gift to dad. On the father air freshener you can put a little note on it that says, "World's Best Dad" and on the child's you can put something like, "I love you, Dad." Makes a great Father's Day gift.

What you will need: Fun foam to match skin tone. Fake hair to match the child's or father's hair. Felt to make clothes. Yarn or string to hang the freshener, glue, wiggly eyes, permanent markers, eyelet lace and ribbon, air freshener oil (found where you buy car air fresheners)

What to do:

Print out the patterns for the father and daughter, son.
Cut two of each pattern to make one freshener. There will be a face on the back and the front of each freshener so that it looks good from all directions.
To make the daughters face cut 18 pieces of yarn 9 inches long. Loosely tie 9 pieces of yarn together in the middle for one face and do it again for the face on the back of the freshener. Glue the hair on in the middle of the heads. Glue the arms and feet onto the dress and then glue the body onto the head to complete one side of the doll. Glue the other dress and the other head to back of the completed side so that the freshener can be viewed from any angle. Tie the yarn for the hair together on each side of the head to make pony tails. Braid the pony tails and tie ribbons onto the end. Finish by gluing on eyes and drawing a mouth and nose. Add eyelet lace to the bottom of the dress. Put some air freshener oil on the felt to make the freshener smell good.
To make the father follow the same directions as for the daughter except for the hair. Add hair to make it look like your father or husband.
To make the son, use the same hands, face, and feet pattern as the daughter, but use the son clothes.

What you will need: Paint stick (you can probably get them free from any place that sales paint), 4 craft spoons, 2 mini-spring clothes pins, fake hair (or something to make hair out of), wiggly eyes, markers, paint, material, 2 tiny wooden circles, glue

What to do:

Glue craft spoons onto the back of a paint stick about 4 inches down from the top at a 45 degree angle to the craft stick to make the arms.
Cut the small ends off two craft spoons to make feet and glue them on to the bottom of the craft stick.
Glue on two tiny wooden circles for ears, and wiggly eyes.
Cut out clothes from material using your doll to make the pattern and then glue them on.
Glue on a clothes pin on each arm so that the man can hold notes.
Use markers to draw on the mouth and shoes and paint or color to finish.
Put a tiny note in one hand and write something on it to give to dad.

Wallet filled with Love Father's Day Gift - Use this poem to go along with a wallet filled with coupons for hugs, kisses, and chores, etc.

A Wallet filled with Love
All the money in the world could never compare,
to all the hugs and kisses and the ways you show you care,
I wish I could repay you for everything you've done.
If you open up this wallet, you'll see how I've begun.
by Carolyn Warvel

It is illegal to copy this poem and place it on another web site even if you include the author's name.

What you will need: Construction paper, glue, scissors, picture of child (optional), markers, crayons. Note: If the child's father needs a new wallet, you might want to use a real wallet instead.

What to do:

Position the construction paper so that it lays lengthwise.
Fold the top and bottom edges down 1/2 inch in towards the center of the paper and glue the flaps down.
Fold the paper in half lengthwise.
Position the paper so that the fold is on the bottom.
Glue the top closed 3 3/4" in from the left side of the paper and 2 3/4" in from the right side.
Fold the right end in at line A towards the center.
Fold in right end in again at line B so that line A meets line C.
Fold the left side in 2 1/2" towards the back at line D.
Then fold back the end 1 1/2" from the end at line E.
Fold in again at line C
Glue the top and bottom edges down on the left folded flap so that you can still fit a business card inside the slot.
Print out the blank coupons and have the children write in the middle things they want to give or do for their dad. They may also want to color them. (Printing Problems?)
Print out the poem to glue onto the inside far right of the wallet when it is completely open or just write the poem on the inside of the wallet.
Print out the business card, cut out and place it into the slot in the wallet on the inside left.
Glue the child's picture on the inside middle panel.
To Finish decorate the outside of the wallet and wrap it up with wrapping paper to give to dad.

Picture for Daddy Father's Day Card Picture for Daddy Father's Day Card - ©2004 Carolyn Warvel - Here's a simple poem you can use to make a card for Dad. This makes a great Father's Day gift from young children.

A Picture For You
Here's a picture I drew for you.
I cannot write so it will have to do.
If I could, I would like it to say:
"Have a happy Father's Day!"
by Carolyn Warvel

It is illegal to copy this poem and place it on another web site even if you include the author's name.

Baby Foot print Picture - ©2004 Carolyn Warvel - Here is a poem you can use with babies for their dad. Write or type the poem below on a piece of white paper. (Please include the author when copying the poem. See copyright notice below.) Make a border or use clip art. Press the child's feet into a "safe for children" paint and then onto the paper. When the prints are dry, glue (using rubber cement) the whole paper onto a piece of construction paper for a frame. You can also add some yarn at the top to hang the picture.

A Father's Role

On this paper you will find
   some tiny footprints that are one of a kind.
They 're here to remind you the role you play
   in the foundation that you lay.
God has given you this great treasure.
   Teach her right and share her pleasure.
She learns from you in every way
   so be careful of the words you say.
Hold her tight and calm her fears.
   When she cries wipe away her tears.
In all these things she feels your love.
and learns to trust the Lord above.
   by Carolyn Warvel

Copyright Notice - Even though many of the crafts on this site are free, they are still copyrighted. They may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, except for use in your local church, school, home, library, and other organizations. It is illegal to copy any part of this craft and place it on another web site, bulletin board, or personal web site. To request permission to copy this material for any other use than personal use contact me by e-mail.

It is illegal to copy this poem and place it on another web site even if you include the author's name.

Greatest Dad Ribbon

What to do:

1. Print out the ribbon patterns onto card stock , cut them apart and color. To make it extra special, you can cut the blue ribbon hanging from the bottom and replace with a real blue ribbon.

Ribbon Pattern that says, "World's Greatest ______" - (Large file or small file) You fill in the word you would like. (Printing Problems?)

Trinket Box for Dad - Assemble a box out of poster board then paint and decorate the box for Dad. If you don't want to make the box, use an empty tin can. You can go through magazines and cut out words that describe Dad such as: smart, good, top, super, best, quality, etc. They are very easy to find. Just look in the ads. (top)

Father's Day CD Craft

What you will need: Old CD's like the ones AOL send out every month in the mail. (Our local Best Buy, Office Depot and other places have bins of the things).

What to do: Glue a picture of the child in the center of the CD on the shiny side. Then cover the label side with a masculine contact paper.

On the shiny side print around the edge of the CD: "I am the reflection of the good in you, Daddy."

Sent in by Rita Neve

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