With Father’s Day coming up next month, I thought now would be a good time to get started on posting a few Father’s Day Craft. I decided that I would start off with a real tear jerker of a gift idea. This is one that I made for my husband on his second year of celebrating father’s day.
What you will need:
- Tempura Paint
- Paint Brushes
- Ink Pad
- Double frame (you can buy nice ones just about everywhere. I went with a folding frame but you could go with one that allows for two pictures or one large picture and one small picture)
- A photograph of your child
- Printer
- the poem at the end of this how-to
Directions:
- Allow your child to paint a picture for daddy. If you child is older, create a frame and have him or her paint the frame.
- Print out the poem and place it in the center of the picture or in the frame.
- Take your child’s foot and ink it (it is better if you use a light ink color so you can read the poem through the ink).
- Center the foot on the poem and stamp the footprint onto the poem.
- Set aside to dry
- Place the footprint/picture/poem into one side of the frame and a photograph of your child on the other side. (You could also create another painted frame for the photograph.) Oh, don’t forget to date it.
- Wrap and give to dad.
And that is it. Well, except for the poem. I have added it here and I’m not sure who wrote this poem but I know it wasn’t me. So for now, it is simply by anonymous.
“Walk a little slower Daddy,”
said a child so small,
“I’m following in your footsteps
and I don’t want to fall.
Sometimes your steps are very fast,
Sometimes they’re hard to see;
So walk a little slower, Daddy,
For you are leading me.
Someday when I’m all grown up,
You’re what I want to be;
Then I will have a little child
Who’ll want to follow me.
And I would want to lead just right,
And know that I was true,
So walk a little slower, Daddy,
For I must follow you.”
