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

By Jan K., The Proofer

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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!

You'll need:

• Child safety scissors (if your child is old enough to use them)

• Regular printer paper

• 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.)

• Crayons or colored markers

• Child-safe, non-toxic glue

This Father's Day Train Card suitable for a boy to give to Daddy!

If Daddy is a model train buff, or enjoys anything to do with trains, then this card is suitable for either a boy or a girl to give as a Father's Day card.

Go to Mom's Break and visit the Father's Day Printable Projects page. Find the link for the Father's Day Train Card: http://fathersday.momsbreak.com/printable-fathersday-card.html.

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his Father's Day Bear Card suitable for a girl to give to Daddy! It is also suitable for a very young boy to give to Daddy.

Go to Mom's Break and visit the Father's Day Printable Projects page. Find the link for Father's Day Bear Card: http://fathersday.momsbreak.com/printable-fathersday-bear-card.html.

[This page 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.

After you print the train or the teddy bear (or both), help your child to cut out the picture along the heavy 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!

Bonus! Get a free printable envelope for your child's Father's Day card!This envelope is printed on plain computer paper, folded, and then glued. To get more instructions for folding and gluing, go to:

Envelopes for Cards: How to Fold Them

The folding and gluing instructions are printed directly on the free printable envelope, so if you want to skip the envelope tutorial, you can simply download the envelope:

Blank Envelope

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!

For other Father's Day ideas, please visit:

Make A World's Best Dad Certificate for Father's Day, at http://www.jansreadingroom.com/Fathers_Day/FathersDayCertificate.htm

Make Father's Day Really Special, at http://www.jansreadingroom.com/Fathers_Day/FathersDay.htm

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