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June 7, 2010 | Filed in: Crafts | by Amanda

father's day craft

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.)

father's day craft

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

father's day craft

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.

father's day craft

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!

father's day craft

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!

father's day craft

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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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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…

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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That is so fun!!!
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so creative and unique come and link up to MMM!!!

Very cute project! Thanks for sharing!

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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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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Visiting via Keeping it Simple…
What a fun craft to do with the kids. Thank you so much for posting this.

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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Love it!
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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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What a cute idea!!!

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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Just wanted you to see that I took your idea and did it! My husband loved it! Thanks!

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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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Thanks so much for sharing!
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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

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!
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Aw! Fun! Did you post pics? I’d love to see!

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