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Celebrate Father's Day with homemade crafts, kids will have a great time making them; fathers will love receiving them. |
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Father's Day Photo House
To make this house-shaped photo frame, use crayons or colored markers to draw your house on heavyweight white paper. Include a window for each family member. With a craft knife, cut out window openings. Place a photo behind each one and tape the photo edges in place.
Use scissors to cut along the house outline. Place the cutout face-down and spread glue along the outside edges. Mount the art on a piece of cardboard and trim the backing so that it is flush with the art. To make a frame stand, cut a 3-inch-wide cardboard strip that is half the height of the house. Fold the strip in half vertically, line it up with the frame bottom, and glue one side to the back of the frame. |
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Wallet Collage
Cut a credit-card-size rectangle out of poster board. Decorate both sides with messages, stickers, drawings and glued-on photographs. To make the card sturdier, cover it on both sides with clear Con-Tact paper or run it through the laminator. Dad can keep the card in his wallet and take it with him wherever he goes, a reminder of who loves him best of all. |
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Puppy Dog Pencil Holder
This desktop dog is made out of four pinch-style wooden clothespins, craft glue, felt, googly eyes and a pom-pom. To form the front end of the dog, pinch open a clothespin and apply glue to the inner surface of the opened end. Then, clamp the glued end onto a second clothespin, just behind the metal spring. For the dog's tail end, glue and clamp together the last two clothespins so that one holds the other wide open.
When the glue is dry, fit the opened end of the back half onto the lower end of the front half, as pictured. Apply glue to bond the two sections. From the felt, cut out floppy ears and circular paws. Glue them, the googly eyes and the pom-pom nose onto the dog. If your child wishes, he can add spots or other distinguishing details with craft paints or colored markers. Finally, pinch open the dog's mouth and insert a pencil, balancing its weight equally on both sides. |
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Wall Hanging
You'll need an old Necktie, craft glue or hot glue gun, a small picture of yourself & fabric paint. First get an old Necktie that your dad never wears (ask your mom etc. if you can use it.) and the other supplies ready.
Lay the tie across a table and arrange your picture in the middle of the fat end of the tie. DO NOT GLUE YET!
Over top of the picture spell HAPPY with your fabric paints, near the bottom spell FATHER'S DAY.
Take your picture off of the tie and place your glue around the edges and in the middle of the back of your picture. Set the picture on top of the place on the tie where it was before and press on it.
Put your tie somewhere where it will not get wrecked and let it dry. DO NOT PUT ANYTHING ON TOP OF THE TIE because the paint will smear. |
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Popsicle Stick Picture Frame
You'll need eight clean Popsicle sticks, paint or magic markers, tacky craft glue, photograph of yourself, scissors, pencil, cardboard (you can use an old cereal box), yarn (if you want to hang your frame), magnet (if you want to be able to put your frame on the refrigerator or a filing cabinet) and any of the following items to decorate the frame:
sequins, buttons, construction paper, yarn, stickers, nuts and bolts, fishing lures, buttons, ribbons, tiny fake flowers, golf tees, puzzle pieces, lace, stamps, wrapping paper, fabric, or pictures of their favorite hobby cut from magazines, etc.
Arrange the Popsicle sticks as follows: put two side-by-side vertically (up and down). Put two more (arranged the same way) next to them.
Take the photograph and slide the edges under the four sticks so that neither of the sides (right or left) show.
Place two more Popsicle sticks, side-by-side, so that the top edge is covered. Do the same with the bottom edge using the last two sticks. (The top and bottom parts will cross over the side parts of the frame.) Use the pencil to lightly mark where the frame will attach. You may need to trim the picture if it is too big.
Use the glue to put the frame together. Let it dry overnight.
While you are waiting for the frame to dry, put the picture on a piece of cardboard and trace around it. Trim the cardboard to be just a little larger than the picture (about 1/4" all the way around).
Glue the picture to the center of the cardboard.
Decorate the frame using paints or markers. Let that dry (if you used paint) and then further decorate it with the items you've collected. You can see some frame decorating ideas with our fridge frame project.
Once the frame is dry (paint or glue), glue the picture to the frame.
If you want to hang the frame, glue a 4" piece of yarn to the back of the frame. (Glue one end to each top corner.) If you would rather it be a magnetic frame, glue a magnet to the back. You can also make a stand using a stiff piece of cardboard. (Cut a 4" by 2" rectangle. Bend the cardboard at one end about 1/2" from the top. Glue the bent part to the back so that the frame can stand up (you may need to trim it a little if it's too long.)
Wrap it up, and give someone a special surprise! |
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