Hand Print Crafts for Father’s Day

May 24, 2023 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

Cards and crafts involving hand prints and footprints are classic for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, and they give us a chance to look back through the years and see how much our kids have grown.

They’re also really easy projects to make for Father’s Day, and a great way to do a craft in a classroom without it taking too much time (though cleaning all those little hands and feet is definitely a process). Here are some cute hand and footprint crafts for Father’s Day for you to make with one kid or a bunch.

If you want hand prints without the paint, this handprint Father’s Day grill card from Our Kid Things is a good option. Just grab their template to help you make the pieces of the grill, trace and cut out hands, write a grill pun in the card and you’re all set.

Give dad a high five for all the great work he does with this simple card from Pepper Scraps. Just print, paint and stamp the hand, or trace and color in the hand, and you’re all set.

Crafty Morning is the queen of cute handprint projects. She’s got one where kids use their hands to add spikes to a dinosaur and a super cute pirate that’s shown done with a hand but you could probably do it with a footprint, too, if you’d rather.

And if you need more ideas, check out these cute printables from Mr. Mintz Crafts, which just need to be printed out and have a hand or foot print added to make them reading for giving. These are products that are for sale but definitely worth it for the quick and cute factor. The I love you to the moon and back one is my favorite, but they’re all really cute.

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Easy Pen and Paper Games for Road Trips and Beyond

When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.

But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.

What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.

There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.

I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.

This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).

Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.

Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.

[Photo: What We Do All Day]

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