4 Father’s Day Card Ideas

Father’s Day is coming up, and it is the perfect time to celebrate all the dads in your life! Here are some ways to make a father feel special on this Father’s Day! 

BBQ Grill Card: 

What you will need: 

• One full size sheet of paper 
• Black construction paper 
• Small piece of construction paper (preferably brown) 
• Black marker/crayon 
• Gray marker/crayon 
• Scissors 
• Glue 

Instructions: 

1. Take the black construction paper and cut out a large circle and two small strips. Cut the circle in half, and position the half-circles with the flat sides slightly slanted away from each other at one end. Position the two strips in an “X, and glue them down to the bottom of the page. Then, take the half-circles and glue them on top of the “X.” 
2. Cut out a hotdog, and glue it in between the two half-circles.  
3. Draw smoke coming from the hotdog, and the opening of the half-circles, and now you have a grill!
4. Write a message on the inside and outside. 

“DAD” tie card: 

What you will need:  

• One full size sheet of paper 
• Various colored construction paper 
• String 
• Black Marker/Crayon 
• Scissors 
• Liquid and stick glue 

Instructions: 

1. Take three pieces of colored construction paper and cut them into the shape of a shirt tie. 
2. Fold the full-size sheet of paper in half, and on the front of the card, cut the string to fit from one side of the paper to the other and glue it down using liquid glue. 
3. Take each cut out tie, and write each letter in “DAD” on a separate tie, and glue them to the string using stick glue. 
4. Write a message on the inside of the card. 

Shirt Card: 

What you will need: 

• One full size sheet of paper 
• 4 or 5 buttons 
• One small strip of paper 
• One large strip of paper 
• One-fourth of a sheet of paper 
• Glue 
• Scissors 
• Markers/Crayons 

Instructions: 

1. Take the full-size sheet of paper and fold it in half vertically. 
2. Take the long strip of paper, and glue it down the center of the front of the card. 
3. Color the ¼ sheet of paper whichever color you want your bow tie to be. Using the ¼ square of paper, fold it repeatedly like an accordion. Then, taking the small strip of paper, wrap and glue it to the center of the folded paper to make a bow tie. 
4. Next, glue the bow tie to the top of the front of the card, and glue the buttons down the center strip to make the card look like a shirt. 
5. Write a message on the inside. 

Handprint Card: 

What you will need: 

• Two full size sheets of paper 
• Markers/Crayons/Pencil 
• Glue 
• Scissors 

Instructions: 

1. Take one sheet of paper and fold it in half. On the other sheet of paper, trace your hand and cut it out. On the same page you traced your hand, draw and cut out a small heart to fit in the palm of your handprint. 
2. Color the handprint and heart.  
3. Glue the handprint to the center of the card, and glue the heart in the center of the handprint on the card.  
4. Write on the front of the card: “It takes a big heart to hold a little hand.” 
5. Write a message on the inside of the card.