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

Growing Up Ladybug and How to Become a Butterfly are both by Stepanka Sekaninova and illustrated by Linh Dao, and they came out at the same time and are on similar themes, so let’s look at them together.

Growing Up Ladybug is narrated by Mariella, a seven-spot ladybug. She talks about the parts of a ladybug, where they live, different kinds of ladybugs, why humans love them, their defenses against predators and the life cycle of a ladybug.

The drawings are cute if not always scientifically accurate, it’s not in such a way that’s likely to confuse kids (who probably already know that ladybug mamas don’t push their larval babies around in strollers, for instance.

It’s a good general description of the life cycle of a lady bug and why we like having them around.

About the book: 32 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Albatross Media. Suggested retail price $16.95.

Similarly, How to Become a Butterfly covers the life cycle of a butterfly, starting with caterpillars eating burning nettle leaves. (Here Amanda is the narrator.) The book talks about a few of the more than 18,000 daytime butterflies in the world as well as other creatures that live in the meadow (there’s that ladybug again, along with crickets, bees and other bugs).

It also covers some of the enemies of caterpillars like wasps and spiders, and the defenses that caterpillars use to try to prevent being eaten. It illustrates how caterpillars grow and change as they molt and prepare to pupate, and what a caterpillar looks like before and while it is forming its chrysalis. And while the book uses the word metamorphasis it doesn’t really talk about what happens between the caterpillar forming a chrysalis and the butterfly hatching.

This butterfly is a peacock butterfly, and once it hatches the book covers the parts of a butterfly and the life cycle. It also talks about nocturnal moths (though it says nocturnal butterflies are “usually called moths” when moths are actually a different species) and what butterflies do at night.

I’m maybe a little hard on this book because my daughter is a butterfly expert from way back, but it is still cute and good for the very basic basics of the butterfly life cycle.

Both books would be fun additions to your bookshelf for younger kids starting to learn about different animals or who have an interest in insects.

About the book: 32 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Albatross Media. Suggested retail price $16.95.

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