Help Your Child Make a Father's Day Card for Daddy!

by Kimberly Hargis

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 Jan's Free Content (http://www.jansfreecontent) and click on the links for the Father's Day articles.

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 Proofer and other contributing authors. Please visit Mom's Break (http://www.momsbreak.com) for free printable projects and crafts.

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