How to make a birthday present for your dad?

Making gifts with your own hands is always interesting and fun. Such presentations are of particular value in the eyes of the birthday person, and also only a similar surprise made by you personally will be able to deliver a lot of joy, happiness and emotions to the person whom you intend to give.

This article will discuss how to make a present to dad for his birthday. There are a lot of gift options, you just have to give free rein to your imagination - and you can certainly surprise your loved one.

Making gifts with children is a fascinating activity. In addition, this will bring them not only joy and interest, but also serve as an educational activity that develops fine motor skills, imagination and artistic taste. Children, as a rule, love to do something new, to learn, create, draw and glue. You can do with them what they like best: someone draw on paper, someone cut with scissors, and someone love to glue small parts and assemble them together.

Crafts made from plain paper, which is in any home, can look very interesting and original. To do this, it is not necessary to have any special skills. It is enough to be smart and connect your imagination. Crafts made of paper are a great alternative to a good gift if there is no money for expensive materials for its manufacture.

You can quickly and easily make postcards, origami, interesting drawing or applique from fabric on paper. Several workshops have been prepared for you, which are not so difficult to do.

It is extremely simple to make such a gift, especially if the child is small and does not know how to use glue and scissors.

Take an A4 sheet and fold it in half. Draw a beautiful illustration on the front side (you can use the template) and ask the child to decorate this drawing with colored pencils or felt-tip pens (you can also use watercolor or gouache if the child has a good understanding of the brush). Spread the right side of the turn so that you get a few lines for the wish. If your kid already knows how to write, great! He will write a congratulation himself.

Making beautiful origami is easy. Their schemes are publicly available. However, we will analyze the simplest technique.

Paper kitty:

• a sheet of paper must be folded in half;
• bend the top of the sheet in a dashed line;
• Now fold the bottom edges up.

Origami in the shape of a cat is ready.

To make an applique from fabric, you need thicker paper, for example, ordinary cardboard. You will also need fabric patches of various colors.

Draw a pencil drawing on cardboard. Then let the child with your help cut out small pieces of fabric, and, using glue stick, glue the patches to the desired place in the picture.

The simplest drawings for the application are a fish, a kitty, the sun, a mushroom, a daisy, a Christmas tree, a typewriter.

As in the previous version of the gift to the father, you will need cardboard and colored paper. With a pencil, barely noticeably apply the drawing to the cardboard. For each part of the drawing, you and the child must cut out pieces of colored paper, and, using glue (it is better to use glue stick so that the paper does not become wet and does not curl from PVA glue), attach color pieces to your drawing, thereby giving the picture colors and a certain mood.

The mosaic is done in almost the same way as in the previous version. Only for mosaics you will need to cut out very small pieces of colored cardboard and stick them so that there is a small empty space between them. This craft looks very beautiful and unusual. However, it takes longer than the two previous ones.

Everyone likes sweet treats. And if your child prepares it for dad’s birthday, then he will definitely not only be full, but also admire the talents of his little child.

Cooking sweets is not difficult if you do not even have the culinary skills at the highest level.

Here are the options for treats that you can prepare with your children.

Ingredients: bananas, chocolate, coconut, confectionery sprinkle.

Cooking:

• if the bananas are long enough, then it is recommended to cut them in half (you can even into three parts);
• peel the bananas;
• put them on the skewers and refrigerate them so that the fruits attach well to the skewers;
• chop the chocolate and put it in a water bath, while do not forget to stir the chocolate mass;
• chocolate should melt completely and turn into a single homogeneous mass;
• pour the chocolate into a glass, and then dip the bananas on the skewers into it;
• sprinkle with coconut and refrigerate the bananas until the chocolate has completely set.

Components: ice cream, waffles, sunflower oil, coconut, eggs.

Cooking:

• divide the ice cream into several parts;
• chop the waffles;
• shredded waffles must be mixed with coconut;
• then break the egg and beat well;
• roll ice cream in waffle chips, then dip in the egg and roll in the waffle chips again, after which it should be sent to the freezer;
• bring the oil to a boil;
• portions of ice cream must be laid out in butter and scalded until golden brown on both sides.

Components: 4 sweet curds, 100 g sugar, 100 ml milk, 150 g sour cream, 15 g gelatin.

How to cook:

• gelatin must be poured with milk and left for 30-40 minutes;
• using a mixer, turn the cheese, sour cream and sugar into a homogeneous mass, and heat the swollen gelatin to a temperature of about 50-60 degrees;
• then mix gelatin with the resulting mass;
• Pour it into a container and place in the refrigerator for at least 5 hours.

A good gift from preschoolers, both from a daughter and from a son, can be some interesting drawing made in pencil or paints. You can also draw a poster, make a beautiful illustration using colored paper. Themes for drawings, posters, paintings can be many.

Here are some ideas for making the picture.

1. Take a tight A4 Whatman paper. From colored paper, you should cut out the details of your drawing, and, using glue stick, stick the colored paper on whatman paper. White spaces on whatman paper can be filled with colored pencils or watercolors, or you can leave them blank.
2. Whatman application. You will need patches of fabric that should be sewn to a thick whatman paper. Draw a drawing on a drawing paper with a simple soft pencil. Next, cut the necessary parts from the flaps of fabric. You should not glue these details with glue, but sew with small stitches 5-6 mm long.
3. The picture can also be done on a tree.. To do this, you need a stencil made of wood. Prepare the template you need in advance. To make a rich painting on wood, you will need acrylic or oil paints. However, you should be aware that oil paints dry longer than acrylic paints.

There are many ideas that you can do with your own hands and give. It is not worth making crafts from plywood with children, since for them it will not be the safest activity, and you yourself can not cope with such materials.

We offer you a choice of the most original surprises that your child will be happy to do on his own.

Gifts can be made from any material at hand.

1. A tree of beads. To weave a tree from a material such as beads, you will need first of all a good wire and the green beads themselves or some other color, if you decide to do something different instead of the petals, but in this case we will consider a sample of classic green leaves.
2. A figurine can be cut out of wood, but there are also wooden cutting boards. It is possible to burn various drawings on them with the help of a special tool - a burner.

• First you need to weave twigs with leaves. To do this, string 10 pieces of beads in the middle and form a loop by twisting.
• At the two ends, you must repeat the same action, but you need to retreat 1 cm from the twisted loop. This forms a branch with leaves.
• A tree trunk is being built by connecting clusters among themselves. This must be done in order, attaching one element at a time until a whole tree is formed. Between the branches there should be a trunk, which will be of dense wire or a sufficiently strong rod.
• Prepare a tree stand. Fill the support with gypsum mortar.

The bracelet made of floss thread will look original. If you need a narrow bracelet, you can use 6 threads, if you need to weave a wide bracelet, then use 9 threads.

The simplest craft of felt is the letter. Make it the first letter of the name of the person to whom you are going to give a gift:

• make a letter template from paper and cut it out;
• fold the felt in half and pin the stencil of the cut letter to the material;
• circle the stencil with chalk, then chip the letter and cut it along the line;
• then you need to sew the cut parts together, but leaving a hole;
• through this hole you need to fill the letter with a padding polyester;
• after you have added volume to the letter using a padding polyester, sew a hole.

Let the plasticine crafts are not very rational as a gift for an adult, but if this presents a little child to his dad for his birthday, his father will be completely happy with the work of his child.

Plasticine is the safest material that a preschool child can work with. In addition, many children simply adore modeling clay. This material develops fine motor skills, imagination, makes the imagination think on the scale of a novice architect.

From plasticine, you can not only mold a separate figure, but also make an entire composition on a pre-prepared stand.

Of course, the surprises made by the child will not always come in handy in everyday life. However, to receive a holiday gift made by the hands of a child is pleasant for any parent.

See the video below for an example of an original DIY gift.