Father's Day Projects

Happy Father's Day!

Father's Day Projects

Best Dad Hands Down

Create a document and print

2013 in top right corner and best dad in top left corner

Hands down centered on the bottom

Paint both hands and press onto the paper - hands down!

Dad Rocks!
Brainstorm words that describe DAD!
Type and print the words out
Cut each word into an oval shape
find appropriate sized rocks
Mod Podge the words onto rocks
Place them in a basket and give to DAD!

Fishing You a Happy Father's Day!
Cut out a fish shape
Tear colored construction paper into pieces and glue onto the fish. 
Glue the fish to a folded piece of blue construction paper.
Write, Dad - Fishing you a Happy Father's Day
Draw a line and hook.

 

Father's Day 2013 Questionnaire

I created my own questionnaire based off of one I saw

Addie's answers about her dad!

My favorite answer - My favorite thing about my Dad is . . . he drinks beer.

Oh the things children say!

 

Tana's answers about her dad!

My favorite answer(s)  - Daddy always tells me . . . to go in a time out.

and It makes my Dad happy when . . . me not naughty.

Butterfly Fun!

Butterfly Fun

Butterfly Projects
 

Footprint Butterflies

Paint feet with water color paint

Press onto white paper

Let dry and draw the body and antenna with marker

 * I accidently had the blue butterflies flipped the wrong way when I was drawing the bodies and antenna on each of them.  They are upside down - oops!*
 

Folded Painted Butterflies
Draw a butterfly onto white paper and cut it out
Paint one half of the butterfly
Fold the butterfly in half and press together
Unfold and let dry


Snack Bag Butterflies
Glue pom pom's onto a clothespin
Fill a baggie 3/4 full with some sort of snacks
Divide the filled baggie in half and wrap it with a pipe cleaner
Pinch the clothespin around the pipe cleaner and the filled baggie
Twist the ends of the pipe cleaner to make antenna

Cardboard Tube Butterflies
Cover a cardboard tube with decorative paper
Cut wings out of decorative paper and tape to the back of the tube
Glue on googly eyes
Glue pipe cleaner antenna to the inside, front of the cardboard tube.

 

Sugar Cookie Butterflies

 We divided the dough into 4 balls and added a different color of food coloring to each ball.  We mixed each ball and then combined the 4 balls to make one large ball of dough.  The girls helped me roll out the dough.  They took turns pressing the butterfly cookie cutter into the colorful dough!

 

 

 

 

Butterfly Learning Activities

Butterfly Patterns
Cut out different colored butterflies from construction paper
Make your own butterfly patterns - glue on to a piece of construction paper

 

 

Big, Bigger, Biggest Butterflies

I printed 3 different size butterflies

Addie colored each butterfly and cut each one out

She glued the words big, bigger and biggest to the bottom of purple construction paper

She glued the corresponding butterfly above it's matching word

 

 

Butterfly Life Cycle Book and Wheel

Here is the link to this Butterfly Life Cycle Wheel and Book

 

 

 

Butterfly Matching - File Folder Game

Here is the link to the Beautiful Butterflies File Folder Game