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Tag Archives: Father’s Day gift

Dear Dad Printable Book

6 / 17 / 236 / 17 / 23

As you may know, for many years I wrote for CBC Parents where I shared all kinds of recipes, kids’ activities, and parenting hacks.  CBC is currently doing some major reorganization and at the moment, my posts are unavailable, leaving many of you searching for links that you use year after year.  I’m not sure if my articles will eventually find new homes on CBC Kids, but in the meantime I’m happy to reshare them here so you can have what you need.  Please reach out to me if there’s something you need and I’ll do my best to help! ♥︎

Father’s Day is just around the corner and this sweet little ‘Dear Dad’ book is a perfect, from-the-heart gift for little ones to make for their dads or caregivers. Included in this post is the Dear Dad version of the printable, as well as a Dear Daddy version, a Dear Papa version, and a blank version so you can fill it in with whatever name your child calls their special loved one.

Here’s what you’ll need to do this project with your child:

– our printable ‘Dear Dad’ pages

– coloured card stock

– a pair of scissors

– a single hole punch

– embroidery floss or twine

– a pencil

– a black fine liner

– pencil crayons

Alright, let’s get started, shall we?  First up, you’ll want to prepare the basic card stock book.  Whether you do this part, your little one does this part, or you do it together, is up to you.  I always opt to let kids do as much as they can, but you know your child’s abilities and your comfort level best.

The very first thing you’ll want to do is cut 3 card stock pieces to size.  Optimally you want the pieces to be 11.5 centimetres wide by 23 centimetres long.

Next, fold the 3 rectangular pieces of card stock in half to form a square book and punch one hole on either side of the centre crease.

Lastly, loop your embroidery floss or baker’s twine through the holes a couple of times and secure it with a tight knot on the outside of the book before trimming the ends.

With the base of your book ready to go, it’s time to get started on the most important part – the personalized pages about Dad.  Again, how much support you offer your child during this task is completely up to you.  My daughter’s been writing independently for a few years now, so I simply let her to it.  When she was younger, however, I would have asked her to tell me what she wanted to say and I would have scribed for her. Do whatever works best for your kiddo.


Now, a few quick tips for this part of the project…

1.  Have your child personalize their book pages before they’re cut out and glued onto the card stock base.  This way, if a mistake that cannot be fixed is made, you can always just print off another sheet.

2.  Ask your child to do all of their work in pencil first and then trace it in black fine liner.  The fine liner will make the finished book look polished and give it some pop, but having everything done in pencil first means that mistakes can easily be fixed.

3. Don’t tackle all of the book pages in one sitting (unless your child is super focused and into it, of course).  Spreading out the project over 2 or 3 sessions will allow your little one to do their very best work throughout the entire book and will keep the project light and fun.

When the personalized pages are done, cut them out just outside the dotted line and glue them into your pre-made book.  Be sure to include the year on the last page or on the back of the book and your sweet, from-the-heart gift is ready to give!

FInd the printables here:

Dear Dad  |  Dear Daddy  |  Dear Papa  |  Dear ______ (fill in the blank)

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Handprint Memory Box

4 / 29 / 155 / 5 / 15

Handprint Memory Box | Mama Papa Bubba

I’ll say it.  I’m obsessed with all projects/crafts/gifts that include kids’ handprints.  Alright, and those that involve footprints too.  I can’t help myself.  They’re just so sweet and having special pieces stamped with Miss G’s handprints means that I get to freeze time and always have a reminder of how little she once was.  

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‘I Love You’ Pillowcase {a simple handmade gift}

6 / 5 / 146 / 11 / 14

Simple  I Love You Pillowcase | Mama Papa Bubba

Is it just me, or is buying gifts for dads next to impossible?!  I’ve never been good at buying gifts for my own dad, and when it comes to helping Miss G come up with fun gifts for her Papa, I’m not much better.  Thus, we usually go with something simple, handmade, and from-the-heart.  For last year’s Father’s Day, we put together a simple framed Papa interview and portrait, a super easy snack basket, and our annual Papa and Grae photo book {well now that I type that, I wonder whether or not I actually finished and printed it… ACK!  Must look into that}.  This year, Gracen and I have a few new ideas in mind, the first of which is this very simple ‘I love you’ pillowcase.

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Father’s Day Interview and Portrait {a sweet and simple gift for Papa}

6 / 16 / 136 / 14 / 14

Father's Day Interview & Portrait | Mama.Papa.Bubba.

I’ve always adored handmade gifts, especially when they’re from munchkins, so this year Gracen and I created something simple but from-the-heart for Bradley – a Father’s Day interview and portrait.

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We started with an interview all about her Papa.  I’ve seen a ton of these on Pinterest and we did something similar when she turned 2, so I just made up a bunch of sentence starters, read them aloud to her, and she finished them off.  I was actually a little surprised as I wasn’t sure if she’d fully understand how to  finish off sentences like this, but it was no problem at all. Some of her answers – like the fact that Brad likes to wear leggings and ‘makes her food….cereal mostly!’ cracked me right up!

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To jazz things up a little, I gathered some inspiration for Daffodil Design and created a couple of mini buntings using scrapbook paper and baker’s twine.

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While I did that, Miss G worked on a drawing of Bradley.  It was her idea to retrieve this picture from her room since he was at work and she couldn’t look at him in person.

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To put everything together, I simply tacked the buntings onto the interview and portrait papers with a teensy amount of tape, carefully outlined her portrait with black felt, then popped them into frames.

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Here are the finished products!

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Pretty cute, right?  My favourite part is that she was just tickled pink about the way Papa’s shoes had turned out…  Proud as a peacock.

Want to create your own but not have to start from scratch?

Download our printable templates here:

All About My Papa   |   All About My Daddy

My Papa’s Portrait   |  My Daddy’s Portrait

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Treats for Dad Basket {A Quick and Easy Father’s Day Gift}

6 / 15 / 136 / 22 / 13

Father s Day Gift  A Quick  Easy Treats for Dad Basket | Mama Papa BubbaBrad and I really don’t do big gifts for one another and haven’t for years (so imagine my surprise when a brand new MacBook Pro was delivered to our door in time for  my birthday last year!), but I do enjoy putting together little non-gifty things to make celebrations a tiny bit more special. This year, besides Gracen’s sweet little interview and drawing and the annual daddy-daughter photo book I make for Brad (which sadly is still in progress), Miss G and I decided to put together a basket of some of Brad’s very favourite treats.

IMG 8907Brad is a true snacker, so loading up a big basket full of goodies he loves was not hard to do.  Miss G and I made a list beforehand, then headed to the market in search of our items.  Included was chips (Gracen chose pop chips), blue corn and flax tortillas with tomatillo salsa, pistachio nuts, roasted cashews, hot and sweet beef jerky, a dark chocolate bar, dark chocolate-covered goji berries, a big bottle of limonata, and a couple of organic sodas.

IMG 8911To personalize it just a little, we printed off these Father’s Day tags from Paper & Stitch, cut them out, and attached them to the different goodies using a glue stick.  In our case, I really should have taken the time to make similar tags that used ‘Papa’ instead of dad, but this time around, this was just easier.

Gracen proudly gave this basket to her Papa today so that he can enjoy it all weekend long.  Picnic treats for tomorrow here we come! ☺

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