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

Did you know that October is Squirrel Awareness Month? I didn’t know we needed more awareness of these little creatures, but let’s take it as a sign to learn more about squirrels!

Let’s start with some fun facts via Kids Konnect: did you know there are five subfamilies and more that 280 species of squirrels? The smallest are pygmy squirrels and the largest, the Bhutan giant flying squirrel, can be longer that 4 feet (1.2 meters).

Tree squirrels can climb down trees so fast because their ankles can rotate 180 degrees, allowing them to grab the tree bark as they go down. While most squirrels don’t survive their first year of life, they can live five to 10 years in the wild and squirrels have been known to live up to 20 years in captivity!

Rhythms of Play has more fun facts and tips for observing squirrels if you want to add some real life nature to your nature study.

We always like to start these collections with life cycle and parts of the animal printables, so let’s grab the squirrel life cycle an parts of a squirrel worksheets from Montessori Nature. (It doesn’t look like these are free any more but they have a whole unit study on squirrels you can buy that includes life cycle and parts activities, characteristics of different kinds of squirrels, a printable poster, information about predators and more.)

Grab the squirrel lapbook printable (free with email address) from Homeschool Share to learn the parts of a squirrel, where they live, what they eat, whether they hibernate and more. There’s also a nut taste test printable, a place for making observations about squirrels, life cycle of an oak tree, games and more.

Simple Everyday Mom has some cute squirrel themed worksheets including tracing the letter s, labeling the parts of a squirrel and a letter s maze. She also has more activity pages with a squirrel theme, including matching, a more traditional maze and a counting and graphing activity.

Work on letter recognition with this squirrel and acorn game printable from Teaching Mama. I love the idea of hiding the letters in a fall themed sensory bin for kids to find, identify and match to the letter on the worksheet.

For older kids you can do this “if I were a squirrel” writing prompt from Lesson Planet.

And throw in a little counting with these squirrel and acorn tens frame printables from JDaniel4’s Mom, which you can use to count real acorns or any other little fall themed thing you have handy.

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