How to Give an Interactive Father's Day Card
Think of the Father's Day card tradition as an opportunity for an experience. Make each element of your celebration interactive--it extends the celebration and personalizes it for your dad. Start with the card!
- Difficulty:
- Moderately Easy
Instructions
Things You'll Need
- Twig poles
- Wood burning tool
- String
- Clothespins
- Bucket of "stuff"
- Blindfold
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Get your kids excited about making a "different" kind of card for Pops!
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Grab twig-style poles (one for each child--plus Mom!) and a wood burning tool. Help your kids etch a sentiment and date into the twig. For example: "We love Daddy," "Love and pizza is our bait, "Father's Day 2008."
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Tie a string to the end of the pole and a clothes pin to the end of the string (the clothespin is basically acting as the hook).
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Gather together a bucket of "stuff" for Dad, drawings from the kids, coupons (for a round of golf, car wash), a wallet filled with new family photos, something from the dog or any other thoughtful little gift.
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On Father's Day morning the kids give Dad the pole, then blindfold him and tell him to "go fishing." Each time he "casts" his pole the kids attach something from the bucket to the clothespin "hook." The last thing he catches should be their homemade card.
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Keep the poles until next year and encourage the kids to collect "stuff" for the bucket throughout the year. Then next year they will etch a new sentiment and enact their new tradition year after year. Save the poles as an heirloom for your grandchildren to use for their Father's Day tradition.
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Tips & Warnings
Be sure to take photos of the fishing pole card activity each year and keep in a scrapbook--perfect for Dad's memoirs!
Never leave children unatteneded when using a wood burning tool.
