My kids are little, so its all on me. My oldest is amost 4. We can make him something, or have something unique made with pictures and so forth. What are you guys getting dad? Need creative ideas.
One year my kids painted rocks and glued googly eyes on them. On the bottom we wrote "Dad, you rock!". I guess it's like a paper weight thing. He keeps them in his office.
Get a white t-shirt, and some fabric paint, and hand-print or let the kids paint designs on it.
Hubby can then use the t-shirt for hanging out at home or even wear it out too.
My husband returns everything I buy for him... For his last birthday, our then 4 year old asked what he wanted. He said, "All I want is hugs and kisses."
So, I traced out her hands on card stock paper and cut them out. I had some heart wrapping paper; my daughter and I cut strips of the wrapping paper and taped together a paper chain. At each end of the chain, we taped the hands. The chain was long enough to wrap around an adult's shoulders, with the hands coming together in the middle of the chest. This was his "hug".
Both of us raided my lipsticks and kissed paper. We then cut out the smooches and put in a small gauzy bag (from the craft store). These were his "kisses".
We wrapped everything up in a big box... When he opened it, there was a moment where he looked at it and wasn't quite sure what it was... To which our daughter jumped up and cried, "it's hugs and kisses!" and help drap the paper chain around him. It was super cute and he was truly surprised.
One Father's Day, my daughter drew a picture of her and dad on construction paper. I wrote I Love You Daddy! and we framed it in a nice wood frame and matting set from the craft store.
Have fun!
The Target near me had make your own stones on clearance for $5 and you get 2 in a box. They are large stones and my daughter is going to make one for dad to put in our garden. My husband is a bit obsessive about our landscaping so it works for him.
I figured Daddy needed time away. I don't know if you know about Groupons? www.groupon.com
I bought my husband a $25 voucher worth more than double that for unlimited rock climbing for a month. Check your area on that website. They have great deals for dinner out, pictures turned into canvas art, golfing, etc. Everyday they offer 3 or 4 coupons (to be offered in bulk so many can enjoy the deal hence the name groupon) that have HUGE price cuts. I've purchased salon packages for myself on there and loved it. If you don't like the deals today, look the next day.
I did a coupon book for my husband.
"Good for one 1-hour back rub"
"Dishes- free day"
"Diaper- free day"
... stuff like that. a few were naughty and fun, others were like those =)
I love the rock idea! Genius! I might have to borrow that!
I got my husband a beard/nose hair trimmer. Got it online a little under 20.00 (is new) and that includes the shipping. Only because he's been needing one and wouldn't let me buy him one teehehe.
What about some kind of poster with pictures of the kids with drawings that your 4 yr old drew? He can post it at work or where ever?
Breakfast in bed?
You could make a coupon book from the girls too :)
I am really bad at creative ideas sorry LOL
They could eat draw a picture of something they did with Daddy and then you could take pictures of the fun you had and frame the best one. So he gets the pictures of memories they had with him, and the cute picture too.
Could even take a paper and get out the paint and make him a finger painting project and either let the kids do what they like, or paint their hands on the paper.
We are getting Daddy tools for his job, and probably a bakery cheesecake.
we've done questions - the 4 year old is the perfect age for this:
how old is daddy?
how tall?
where born?
favorite tv show?
favorite thing to do
favorite thing about dad
etc., etc.
then I put them in nice font and mounted to scrapbook paper the kids had decorated.
they hang in his office and his clients get lots of kicks out of them - particularly that daddy's favorite tv is "adult TV" (my son meant whatever he wasn't allowed to watch but love that double entendre!)
this year I had a picture of stomping in puddles w/raincoats. we used green (because I was out of blue and the green matched the picture best...) scrapbook paper and green paint to do hand prints and footprints and then mounted the picture and framed. the green on green was supposed to look like wet prints.
one year I had them paint a picture and then cut hand prints out of the picture and we mounted around a can for a pencil holder
I think he likes all of them...he hasn't told me otherwise so he keeps getting this stuff!
