

How great is this Father’s Day picture puzzle I saw in our latest Clubhouse Jr magazine?! I’m so excited about it–almost as excited as the kids! It’s super easy and makes a fun presentation for Father’s Day. Ready to get to it?
First grab your materials:
popsicle sticks (I got the fat ones)
white glue
scotch tape
exacto knife
cute photo of your husband and kids
Now, the super easy instructions:
1. Lay out 8-9 popsicle sticks side by side and even across the top. (This actually took Lydia several tries.)

2. Put 2 large pieces of tape across the top and bottom. Then flip it over.

3. On the non-taped side, glue a photo onto the popsicle sticks. Make sure you put glue on the edges! Place under some heavy book (or a coffeepot, like we did!) until it dries. Once it’s dried, pull the scotch tape off the back.

4. Use an exacto knife to cut the popsicle sticks apart. I tried doing it on the back so I could follow the lines of the popsicle sticks but it was hard to get the knife through it. So, I grabbed an extra popsicle stick and used it as a line on the front. That was much easier!

5. Voila! Aren’t they cute? We stacked ours up and tied them with ribbons. I can’t wait to give them to my husband on Father’s Day. I don’t know what he’ll do with them after–maybe we’ll just keep them as a fun personalized puzzle!


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That’s a great craft for my boys! Thanks!
I’m stopping by from Making the World Cuter. Have a great Monday!
Sam
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By Sam on 06.07.10 9:53 am | Permalink
so cute! what you can do is glue them together on a cardboard backing after Les has reassembled it, and put it on a picture easel or something like that and he can put it on his side of the bed or on his office desk or something…
By Leigh on 06.07.10 1:05 pm | Permalink
How totally cute is this!!!! I bet the kids had a great time making it too!
I bet you could frame it once he’s put it together! That would look adorable and provide a way for the pic to always be up (plus give him a nice reminder of the project the made for him)!
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By Lolly on 06.07.10 1:18 pm | Permalink
That is so fun!!!
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By Kaysi @ Keeping It SImple on 06.07.10 3:17 pm | Permalink
so creative and unique
come and link up to MMM!!!
By CRAFT on 06.07.10 5:02 pm | Permalink
Very cute project! Thanks for sharing!
By Michelle @ Sweet Something on 06.07.10 6:50 pm | Permalink
I love this! I’m going to do this as a homeschool project too, one for each of the girls with they’re own pictures!
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By Vashti on 06.11.10 6:18 am | Permalink
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By My New Favorite | ohamanda.com on 06.12.10 12:32 am | Permalink
Coming via Crafty Crow – this is super cute! Definitely going to be doing this craft! Will link back when we do. Thanks for the great idea!
Kami
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By Kami on 06.12.10 2:30 pm | Permalink
Visiting via Keeping it Simple…
What a fun craft to do with the kids. Thank you so much for posting this.
By Amy on 06.14.10 5:45 am | Permalink
What a great idea! Maybe on the back you could write a message on a piece of swanky scrapbook paper and double the puzzle.
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By Leah Sidwell on 06.14.10 9:15 am | Permalink
Love it!
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By Kristi on 06.15.10 9:17 pm | Permalink
That is perfect – it will be very exciting for the kids on Fathers Day as it is assembled I am sure. Another thing you could do with it after the puzzle has been assembled is to glue the sticks to a plastic cup and turn them into a pen holder.
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By Sarah Craftylocks on 06.16.10 3:16 pm | Permalink
What a cute idea!!!
By Erin @ Making Memories on 06.16.10 4:04 pm | Permalink
So cool! I have loads of these tongue depressors (as in tons like about a thousand pieces) at home and I’ve been using them as gift tags. But this one totally made me giddy for another project using popsicle sticks!
Thank you! 
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By Issa on 06.17.10 6:37 am | Permalink
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By JDaniel4's Mom on 06.26.10 4:51 am | Permalink
Just wanted you to see that I took your idea and did it! My husband loved it! Thanks!
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By Jawan on 06.27.10 4:06 pm | Permalink
That’s a lovely idea! I guess you could also use the scotchtape OVER each or the sticks to protect the picture? Lovely!
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We are doing this and we are going to put magnets on the back. He can put it on his file cabinet at work.
thanks for sharing1
By sabrina on 06.09.11 9:28 am | Permalink
Hey it’s almost father’s day again and this looks like a good idea. will definitely try this at home!
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Thank you for this! We made one for Father’s Day!
By Muriah on 06.23.11 2:47 pm | Permalink
Aw! Fun! Did you post pics? I’d love to see!
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One picture is up here: http://logansbabyblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/fathers-day-with-grandpa.html
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Amanda this is a great activity for kids for father’s day. We included it in our post for father’s day projects @ theclassroomcreative. Hope you have a great week!
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Thanks for including it!
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I’m gonna try this craft with my daughter for her dad’s b-day present. We are gonna put magnets on each piece so it can be a refrigerator puzzle.
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