Easy Crafts to Make for Father’s Day

Homemade gifts are the best for holidays like Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, and these easy Father’s Day crafts are great for kids to help with and that make useful gifts for dad.

I love a good picture frame craft like this cute and easy one from B Inspired Mama. Use random nuts and bolts (and craft sticks) to make a cute picture frame. Even little kids can paint the sticks or make a drawing or write a note to go inside the frame.

I also like this Scrabble tile frame from Easy Peasy and Fun. Kids can help choose the words (this one uses fantastic and father but if you call him dad or papa you can pick another word to go along the other side) and they can help spell out and glue down the words and paint the frame or add other decor.

Use orphan puzzle pieces and more craft sticks to make this cute frame from Crafty Morning. Posing the kids with a sign that says love you to pieces is extra cute, but you could also write we love you to pieces on the frame if you’d rather do that.

Make dad a fun paperweight out of salt dough and rocks with this idea from Crafts by Amanda. This one uses pea gravel for most of the lettering, or you can hunt for tiny rocks in the backyard to use. You could also just paint a rock with a sentiment about Father’s Day and he could use that as a paperweight if you have big rocks lying around.

Or use rock shaped tablecloth weights to make a cool rock keychain decoupaged with a map. You can also make holes in found rocks for this idea from Pillar Box Blue, but using weights that already have holes in them makes it that much easier and you can find them in lots of cool shapes.

Older kids can make this fun duct tape tray for dad with instructions from Today’s Parent. They might even want to make one for themselves while they are at it.

Cute Father’s Day Crafts Kids Can Make

Father’s Day Printables

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

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