Father's Day Singing Time

We did an extra special singing time in primary today all about our dad's! It's a fun activity, but it does need a week or so of planning.
I went around after church a few Sunday's ago and took pictures of about 15 dad's hands. I also asked them their two favorite Primary songs (so we wouldn't get duplicates!) You could print out all the hand shots but I just took my laptop to church and showed the children that way. (It was cheaper!) They could guess whose hands they thought they were and then I would give hints like their favorite song or something about his children.
I was surprised how many children guessed their own dad's hands so quickly. Very observant!

A friend of mine told me another cute idea she has done before, which I'll probably do next year. She asked a bunch of dad's to meet outside the primary room and the dad's held up a huge sheet, so you could only see their shoes and part of their pants. The kids had to guess which legs belonged to which dad. And then he would tell his favorite song and the group would sing it.
It just came to me maybe I'd have that dad wear a crown and robe and sit on a huge chair (thrown like) and the children would sing to him. Fun!

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!

Father's Day Gifts

For Father's Day the kids and put these together, thanks to Pinterest for another great (and easy) idea!!The top picture I printed as a 5x7 and placed it in a cool vintage frame for Scott.

The bottom one is in a 8x10 frame. I do need to redo the shaded pictures, but ran out of time. Cute concept, just wasn't executed the way I wanted. Regardless, Scott will love it!

The boys also made these salt dough paper weight's. One says, "Dad Rocks" made with small rocks. Another has a heart on it with rocks all around it and the last one has a hand print.

The boys and I thought of a couple other cute things to do for Scott, but we'll see if I have time to actually accomplish it!

Happy Father's Day!!

Father's Day Academy Awards...

My boys have been in Santa Barbara for the last 4 Father's Day's and have missed spending this special time with their dad. So we decided to celebrate a little early this year so we could all be together. We held the first annual Father's Day Academy Awards ceremony.

Each of us choose a category with other hopeful dads and drew a picture about it. Will's category was, "The hardest working dad" one of the other male names was Simon Cowell. Jackson chose, "The most fun dad". He also added in Bob Barker, and David Archileta. Tyler chose, "the best Wrestler dad". Other nominees for this category were Hulk Hogan, and The Snake. Gavin wanted, "The Funniest Dad". Jim Carey and Mickey Mouse were also nominated. (Yes, the boys chose all the extra nominees, some of which were quit funny!)

The last award was presented and it was for, "The World's Best Dad". Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise were of course nominated also, but Scott won each category by a landslide! We presented him with his trophy, all the pictures the boys drew and shirts we had made for him a while back.

It was a lot of fun. They boys were totally into it and Scott was surprised and extremely grateful. He is such a wonderful father to my boys. I couldn't ask for anything more....