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Help Your Child Make a Father's
Day Card for Daddy!
It's never too soon to teach your child to be creative and to learn a
wonderful lesson of how doing something special for someone can bring
life-long rewards! Help
your little boy or little girl make a very special Father's Day card for
Daddy! You'll need:
1. Child safety scissors (if your child is old
enough to use them)
2. Regular printer paper
3. Colored construction paper or card stock (Card
stock is paper that is slightly thicker than regular printer paper and
makes a nicer card. You can purchase card stock in any office supplies
store.)
4. Crayons or colored markers
5. Child-safe, non-toxic glue
Go to Mom's Break.com and visit the Father's Day Printable Projects
(http://fathersday.momsbreak.com) page. Find the links for Father's Day
Train Card (for a boy)
(http://fathersday.momsbreak.com/printable-fathersday-card.html) and
Father's Day Bear Card (for a girl)
(http://fathersday.momsbreak.com/printable-fathersday-bear-card.html).
[These pages will open in a new window so that you may read these
instructions while you look at the printables.]
These are free printables and you may print as
many as you like, on regular printer paper or on colored card stock. I
suggest that you print two or three copies, just in case an "oopsie"
happens while your child is making the card.
After you print the train or the teddy bear (or
both), help your child to cut out the picture along the dotted lines
that are shown. There is a helpful instruction on the free printable to
guide you.
In the white space in the train cab or the teddy
bear's tummy, help your child to write in To Daddy, From XXX (your
child's name). You can also write "I Love You Daddy" or "To My Daddy"
etc. Ask your child what he or she would like to say, and then assist
with writing that in the white space.
Have your child select a piece of colored
construction paper or card stock. It doesn't matter whether it is a good
color match for the train or the teddy bear, remember that the important
thing is that you are helping your child to be creative!
Using the non-toxic glue, help your child to glue
the train or teddy bear to the piece of construction paper or card
stock. Glue the picture in the middle of the page. This will give your
child lots of space around the picture to decorate the card with
pictures or squiggles or whatever happy crayoning your child would like
to do!
For a really special Father's Day gift, purchase
an inexpensive 8-1/2 x 11 inch frame, and frame the card! Imagine your
child's delight in presenting a framed card to Daddy, and watching Daddy
hang it on the wall!
Remember the goal is to help your child be
creative and to spend the time to make a card---rather than simply sign
a card that you've purchased at the store. Daddy will love the homemade
card far more than any other!
For other Father's Day ideas, please visit:
Be sure to re-visit
Mom's Break (http://www.momsbreak.com) for all the free printable crafts and projects that are
available! Jan K., The Proofer is freelance proofreader and
copyeditor. Visit
Jan's Portal (http://www.jansportal.com) for information about her
proofreading and copyediting services, free printable recipes for
Sourdough Bread, free baking and cooking tips, and more, and for more free content articles by Jan K., The
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