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Crafts for Father's Day

Father's Day crafts are a perfect way for kids to show their love to their fathers without spending a huge amount of money. Father's Day crafts are articles made out of material available around the house and fashioned into cute gifts by kids. Father\'s Day crafts are especially popular with girls.

The greatest advantage of Father's Day crafts is that they can be prepared by children as young as three or four years old, thereby giving them a chance to know the true meaning of the celebration.

There are various examples of items and articles that can be created by children out of materials like glue, cardboard, crayons and other simple materials found commonly in households. Hand-made cards are good examples of simple father's day crafts.

The various materials used for making Father's Day crafts include cardboard, felt, paper, glue, Popsicle sticks, crayons, markers, scissors, papier-mâché, construction paper, shoe boxes, cereal boxes and juice containers.

Some examples of crafts are given below:

Business Card Holders

Using Popsicle sticks, craft paint, glue and various decorations.

Pad Holder

Using Post-It Pads, cardboard, markers and crayons, glue, scissors and a magnet if the pad holder has to be magnetic.

Billiards Clock

Using felt paper of various colors, black marker, glue, scissors, corrugated cardboard and a set of clockworks.

A Party Pot

Which is basically any material of pot painted and then glued with decorative paper.

Cute Bookends

With personal messages of photos can be created out of cardboard cartons, newspapers, papier-mâché, paste, and painting material.

Door Knobs and Wall Hangings

Can be made from cardboard, decorations and crayons.

Courtesy of Ken Marlborough

Published 16th Aug 2010

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