Father's Day

Dad is sure to love our awesome Father’s Day craft ideas. Make a handmade gift for dad this Fathers Day with our fantastic activities.

3D Wooden Dad

  • Protect your work area, prepare your materials and make sure you have glue, glue brushes and paint brushes on hand.
  • Step 1Use your Wooden Dad as a template. Trace around the body onto the back of some felt and adhesive foam to create his clothes. We used grey foam for trousers, black foam for a belt, and blue and white felt for a shirt. We also used brown felt for one of our Wooden Dads’ hair, and yellow felt for the other Dad’s bow tie. Carefully cut out your Wooden Dad’s clothing.
  • Step 2Assemble your 3D Wooden Dad before decorating to ensure easy construction. For permanent assembly you will need to glue the pieces together.
  • Step 3Give your 3D Wooden Dad a coat of white paint. Allow to dry. This is not essential but provides a good base for painting.
  • To create a skin tone colour mix a small amount of brown paint into your white paint.
  • Step 5Paint your Wooden Dad’s face and hands with a skin tone colour. Allow to dry.
  • Step 6Cut out a photo of your Dad’s face and glue it in place on your Wooden Dad’s head, or you can create a face using cut-out pieces of felt and foam and a pair of wiggle eyes.
  • Step 7Stick/glue your cut-out clothing onto your Wooden Dad; or you might like to paint his outfit on instead.
  • There are so many ways to decorate your Wooden Dad… Look through our images for inspiration!

Materials used in this activity

CleverPatch Junior PVA Glue - 250ml
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Product Code: 10364
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Round Paint Brushes - Assorted - Pack of 30
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Product Code: 10708
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Product Code: 10814
EACH $18.69 (inc GST) $16.99 (ex GST)
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Student Scissors - Pack of 20
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Product Code: 10897
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3D Wooden People - Pack of 20
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Product Code: 13271
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CleverPatch Junior Artist Paint - 500ml - Set of 11 Colours
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Product Code: 20806
EACH $108.78 (inc GST) $98.89 (ex GST)
3 or more $84.58 (inc GST) $76.89 (ex GST)          
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