Draw a grill.  Then, paint your kids’ hands orange and yellow and let them stamp their hand prints just above the grill.  The overlapping orange and yellow hands will look like fire on your grill.

Paint your kid’s hand and have them stamp a piece of paper.  Add an eyeball to the palm letting the fingers point away from the rest of your picture.  The fingers will be the bottom of your “fish”. Next, draw a mouth at the edge of the palm.  Draw a fishing line and a hook near the mouth.  Finally, add the line, “Fishing you a happy father’s day”.

Dad’s tools in the garage are always a point of interest to children.  That’s why kids get the little tools and workbenches.  So, this Dad-ism speaks to that.  On a paper plate, cut out a circle of construction paper as decoration and glue that to the center of your plate. Then fashion a saw out of construction paper and put that on top of the color circle.  In the perimeter of paper plate that still shows outside your circle, write “You’re the best dad I ever saw.”  Your dad is SURE to get this pun…because it’s the equivalent of a “dad joke”!

Back in dad’s garage, grab some painters tape for this craft.  Use the tape to spell out “DAD”.  Then, paint over it.  Make it colorful.  Make it messy!  Then, when it dries, carefully remove the tape, and you’ll have a blank space left where you’re “DAD” tape was which will make it really pop in juxtaposition with the colorful painting around it.

Trace a kid hand on construction paper.  Cut that hand out and bend the fingers to make the “goat,” the international hand gesture that says “You Rock!”  Now, glue your goat hand to a piece of paper and write, “Dad, you rock!”

Superheroes and Dad go hand in hand.  I myself have multiple superhero shirts, Green Lantern, Captain America, Flash, Superman, and on and on.  So, a superhero craft for dad makes total sense!  This time, paint a kid foot blue. Have them stamp a piece of paper.   Color in a head above the heel and an arm near the head as if your foot hero is flying up up and away.  Finally, add a red construction paper cape, and you have Superfoot flying off to save someone.

Ok, this is probably the most sentimental craft in this list…and could easily make the daddy that receives it cry.  Paint the bottom of dad’s shoe and stamp a piece of paper.  Next, paint (with a different color) a kid foot and, once dad’s shoe print is dry, stamp the kid foot in the center of dad’s print.  Write “Following in Dad’s Footsteps” to really get those tears out of dad!

What’s the traditional gift dads get on Father’s Day?  Neckties!  So, why not a craft to match?  Cut out a piece of construction paper in the shape of a tie and let the little ones decorate it how they’d like.

Playing catch…or any other sport, really, is time-honored father and son time.  This craft speaks to that tradition.  Color a paper plate to look like the sports ball of your choice (a baseball was used for ours) and a matching phrase to say how good you think dad is doing.  For our baseball example, we used “You knock it out of the park!”

This is a pretty simple craft, painting four popsicle sticks and gluing them together as a picture frame. Once you have that, the kids just need to draw a picture to go in the frame.  Draw something that means something to the kid and the dad. For us, it was us all camping together.