Father's Day and Mother's day calls for a different focus than most holidays. What is important is that the holiday be special to the parent who is being honored. Do something that will mean alot to your parent. Have FUN showing your love and appreciation! Here are some ideas:
*Before Father's Day have all the children write about their favorite memories. Assemble these memories into a scrapbook.
* Make a list of the qualities of your father for which you are thankful. Tell or write about these qualities to your dad.
* At dinner or lunch offer a special prayer of thanks for your father.
* Give your Dad a special outing together. Do something that you like to do together. And if you have dinner at Dad's cook something special for him, and don't forget to wash the dishes! GO to Jamie's Kitchen for some great ideas for a Father's Day menu.
Another idea is to buy colored aprons and rubber stamps from the craft store, or use 1/2 of a potatoe and carve your own picture to paint on the apron, then letter a cute saying on the front of the apron...like "DAD'S GRILL", #1 DAD, "FATHER COOKS BEST". There are lots of ideas on stamping material at your craft store.
Molded Baskets...
A piece of me
The heart is you.
I hope you will save it
Turn flowerpot upside down and sponge paint. Any color looks
cute. Let dry. Cut head shape out of green sponges, plus 4
legs and a tail. With marker, draw eyes on head. Glue head,
legs and tail to flowerpot. The head, legs, and tail are glued to
the edges of the pot opening.
Cooked Clay Recipe
Put all ingredients into a pot and cook on low, stirring constantly.
When mixture thickens, put onto plate and cover with saran wrap and let
cool. To make impressions of the kids' feet I put the clay in an
empty wipe box and have them step into the box and make an impression of
their foot.
Then melt scented candles or paraffin with a piece of crayon for
color. Use a lot of caution, because candle wax is very flammable - in
fact, use a double boiler to be on the safe side - and pour into the impressions.
I do this at night when no one is around. When the wax dries I scratch
their name and the year into the flat surface.
Materials needed:
Planter coaster (bottom dish under a planter) from a pottery
or terra cotta
Have children paint the dish green or red, completely covering
the dish. When dry, let the children use a toothbrush with a small amount
of white paint on it and "fling" it toward the dish to create white speckles
on the dish. When dry, paint the child's hand white and let them
make a handrprint inside the dish. Let dry. You can either
leave the dish as is for a gift, or do one or more of the following:
Three Kisses for Father
Three ki-isses for father, for father, for father
On his special day, on his special day,
My Special Friend...
I Love Father..
Fathers Day...
On Father's Day...
On Father's Day,
You give me joy and happiness.
On Father's Day,
Sometimes Dad Says...
I have my children sing it through one time without actions.
Jason's Father
I'll Love You Forever
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This page was in the June
Issue of:
Father's Day Gifts And Art
BARBECUE APRON FOR DAD
Materials needed:
a cotton dish towel or a terry-cloth towel,
ribbon for tying,
a needle and thread
crayons
Use a dish towel or terry-cloth towel that your mother will let you have, or buy a special one. Be sure it is large enough to fit Dad.
Cut the ribbon into two pieces. Sew each piece to a corner of the towel. Now you have an apron.
If you use a white dish towel, you can draw a colorful picture on it with crayons. To keep the picture from rubbing off turn the apron, picture-side down, on a damp cloth. With grown-up help, press with a hot iron.CLAY BOWL
Materials needed:
hardening clay,
tempera paint,
liquid detergent,
shellac,
and an old sheet or a piece of cloth.
1. Lay cloth on tqble or floor. Put a large lump of clay on it. Squeeze and mash the clay to get rid of air holes and soft spots, and roll it into a ball.
2. Punch a hole in the center of the ball. Use your fingers to make the hole larger and larger until the clay is shaped like a bowl.
3. Work your fingers out and up to make the sides of the bowl thinner. When the bowl is shaped as you want it, smooth the inside and the outside.
4. You can stick a thin roll of clay to the outside of the bowl for a handle.
Painting the Bowl
Now the bowl is ready to paint. Mix tempera with about a spoonful of detergent. Clay is oily, and the detergent helps the paint to stick to the bowl. If the paint does not stick well add more detergent. When the paint is dry cover the bowl with shellac to protect the paint. After it drys you can paint "I Love Dad" or add pictures.
Give each child an 8x8 inch sheet of prepasted wallpaper. Help
the children dip their pieces of wallpaper into a pan of warm water and
then mold each one over the top of a can. When the wallpaper is dry,
let the children remove them from the cans and turn them upside down.
Have the children add handles to their baskets by gluing the ends of strips
of construction paper to the sides. You can also paste pictures and string or rope for decorations.
Father's Day Plant
The next year we bought clay pots and painted the children's
hands with
acrylic paint using one of those foam brushes. Then we had them
hold the pot
with both hands. We helped them carefully lift their hands off
the pot and
immediately wash their hands in a sink of soapy water (that
was the fun
part for the kids!!). They painted around the rim of the pot
with a
contrasting color. We did this for Fathers Day. Using a
gold paint pen we
wrote Happy Fathers Day and the year. We then put a plant in
the pot. The
dads loved these. Again for the infants we did footprints..just
seemed easier
and safer since they don't put their feet in their mouths.
Handprint Flower
Mount a piece of white paper on top of a larger piece of colored
construction paper. Paint the child's palm of hand any color he wants.
Have him press down onto about the center or a little above. Next
paint the child's fingers using another color of choice and have him press
down above the palm print.(A perfect hand print now.) When the paint is
dry the child may add a cut out heart for the center of the flower.
Leaves and stem using construction paper. Here is the poem to provide:
I give to you.
I painted this flower
To say "I love you."
The hand is me.
To show we are friends-
The best there can be.
And look back someday
At the flower we shared
On your special day.
-Kathleen Lademan
Flower Pot Turtles
Materials needed:
1 small flowerpot (very small)
acrylic paint
sponge for painting
black marker
tacky glue
Message Bird
Carefully wash a large, empty frozen orange juice can.
Paint the outside of the can and let it dry. Glue a clamp clothespin
in place for the birds beak. The part of the clothespin that
you squeeze should be even with the top of the can, and the clamp part
should be pointing down. Glue a bottle cap on each side of the beak
for eyes, with the inside of the caps facing outward. Punch two circles
from yellow paper and glue them in the caps for pupils. Put a pencil
and some squares of paper inside the can. Messages can
be written on a square of the paper and clamped in the bird's beak.
Clay FootPrints
Every year I make an impression of the child's feet and hand
using homemade
clay (the kind you cook on the stove). Then I melt scented candles
and pour into the impressions. When the wax dries I scratch their
name and the year into the flat surface. They love it. One
of my kids has a set of 4 already. The parents love it. This
year's color and scent is
green/eucalyptus. Directions follow:
2c flour
1c salt
2c water
2tbsp cream of tartar
1/4 c oil
food coloring is optional for this project
Candle for Parents Gift
Take a baby food jar. Tear different colored pieces of tissue.
paper. Cover the jar using a paintbrush with glue diluted slightly with
water and attach the pieces of tissue paper. Throw a few sprinkles of gold
or silver sparkles. Add ribbon around the top and place small votive candle
in jar. Before making
test candle size with baby food jar, as not all jars are the same so
the candle sometimes will not fit.
Dish Handprints
Here is another idea for handprints, most of us have done something
similar to this, so this is a twist on an old idea:
planter
Green or red paint
White paint
Paintbursh
Toothbrush
Ribbon, lace or raffia
Optional-clear varnish, cutouts from material
Hot glue/gun
*Place cutouts of hearts or something around the hand and put
a clear
varnish over them so they stick to the dish.
*Varnish over the handprint for a better seal, and to add a
little shine.
*Make a raffia or fabric bow to glue on the top for decoration
.
Three Kisses For Dad
Before hand, you or your children will prepare a little package with
3 wrapped
kisses. You could use circles of tissue paper and ribbons.
With these packages on their hands, children will sing:
(The More We Get Together)
Three ki-isses for father on his special day.
Three ki-isses for father on his special day!
>>Cleide
Card Or Book For Dad
Use this along with a gift you've made as part of a card or make a
book.
You sew the buttons on my clothes (glue button on this
page)
You gave me a hankie for my nose (kleenex on
this one)
You make good things for me to eat (picture from
magazine)
You buy me candy for a treat
(glue piece of candy on)
You wash my clothes and mend my socks(picture from mag and a cut our
sock)
Dear Father, I love you lots and lots!!(big heart - can put childs
picture in it)
Father's Day Kisses
You will need 2 wrapped candy kisses, 1 plastic spoon, a 4x4
piece of
netting, and ribbon.Place the two kisses back to back in the
bowl of the spoon. Cover with the netting and tie with small ribbon.
To the ribbon's bow attach the following poem:
"Happy Father's Day!
A spoonful of love
And a couple of wishes,
That you enjoy your
Father's Day kisses!"
Father's Day Games
Father May I...
Select one child to be the father who stands at one end of the room.
The other children must take turns asking "Father may I take ______
." The blank may stand for baby steps, giant steps, frog leaps etc.
The mother grants the wish only if the child has said Father may I.
The first one to father becomes father may I.
Father's Day Songs And Fingerplays
My Daddy Helps Me...
(My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean)
My daddy helps me when I'm sick.
My daddy helps me when I'm blue.
My daddy helps me when I'm sad.
Thanks, Dad, for all that you do!
You help, you help,
You help me feel so much better.
You help, you help,
You help me feel so much better.
(Bingo)
I have a very special friend
And Daddy is his name-o.
D-A-D-D-Y, D-A-D-D-Y, D-A-D-D-Y
And Daddy is his name-0
(Frere Jacques)
I love father, I love father.
Yes I do, yes, I do.
All I want to say is
Happy Father's Day!
I love you, I love you!
(This Old Man)
This is Dad;
He works, too.
Doing many family chores,
He's a kind, pind, rindeky, rind,
Loving kind of pal,
Finding time for me, this gal.
(Oh Christmas Tree)
On Father's Day,
On Father's Day;
Oh, how I love you, Dad.
On Father's Day;
Oh, how I love you, Dad.
I give you love-a hug and kiss.
On Father's Day;
Oh, how I love you, Dad.
(Twinkle, Twinkle)
Sometimes Dad says "don't do this"
Sometimes Dad says "don't do that"
Still he loves me that I know.
Why? Because he tells me so.
Sometimes Dad says let's do this.
Sometimes Dad says "kiss, kiss, kiss!"
The second time they shake their finger and freeze while one student
imitates their Dad giving them the "what for". Then on the second
line
another one shakes their finger and says something. On the why
they
lift their shoulders with their hands out and wait three seconds and
then say "because she tells me so". It is very cute.
Books for Father's Day
by
Robert Munsch
