In honor of Father’s Day, we have a special giveaway for you! Win one of three Father’s Day craft books, just by answering the Monthly Craft Question, “What is your favorite DIY gift idea for Dad?” Any of these three craft books would make a great gift for a creative Dad or someone looking to make gifts for Dad all year round.
- Money Folding: Making Banknotes into Gifts You Can Spend
- Jolly Nation: Lads & Dads: Make Great 3-D Decoupage Cards
- Papers For Men: 24 Perforated Papers
Contest ends next Thursday, June 10, 2010. To enter the contest, comment on this blog post with an answer to the Monthly Craft Question above. Please specify which book you would prefer. We’ll try to give you your choice. You have two options to enter:
- Visit the Father’s Day Crafts category at FaveCrafts. Select your favorite Father’s Day project. Include the title of your favorite craft project in a comment on this blog post.
- Tell us your favorite original DIY idea for Father’s Day. We want to hear about your homemade gift idea! You are welcome to link to a blog post with your answer.
We will select three winners next Thursday and contact them for a mailing address. Good luck!
THE WINNERS
#12 Brother Ken
#27 Dee Toomey
#48 Penny Abbott
The winners will be receiving emails!
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Knitted camping set I would like to win the moneyfolding book. And my all time favorite DIY was the baby food jar fastened to a board (to store screws, nuts and small nails in) OLD School stuff….
anything with handprints and photos are the best gifts of all!
I have several favorites–I have made X-stitch bowling and golf towels, needlepoint and X-stitch pics, dessert is always welcome and I always make a card. I would be happy with either the Jolly Nation decoupage cards or the Papers for Men.
It is an annual tradition for my children and I to decopauge a box with their pics and place their father’s gift inside. Thank you.
Last year we made my husband a book about himself with photos of him, his dad and our sons. It turned out just great!
I like the a card for dad
For this project you will need two empty oatmeal container, 6 toilet tissue tubes, some brown paper and some blonde colored yarn. Paint all toilet paper tubes and oatmeal boxes brown and let dry. Cut one oatmeal tube container so that one container fits into the other at 90 degrees. Glue them together. With the cut tube on the bottom, beginning at about 1 inch from the end of the top oatmeal box, cut down into the tube approximately 1 inch. Cut along the top tube so that you maintain the 1 inch dept all the way to to other end of the tube where you have also cut down 1 inch 1 inch from the end. Now take the 4 toilet paper tubes and cut each so that it fits snuggly aginst the bottom oatmeal box at about 1/2 inch in from the end so that you have 4 equal legs holding up the oatmeal tubes. Take the fifth toilet paper tube and cut it at a 45 degree angle so that it can be glued to the end cover of the oatmeal tube at the top edge of the end. Now you should have a donkey’s body made from the bottom oatmeal tube, with 4 legs and a neck coming off one end. Take the sixth toilet paper tube and cutting the neck tube in a half circular notch so it can fit the 6th tube at a 90 degree angle on the exposed end of the toilet paper tube you attached for the neck of the donkey. Set the tube at about 2/3′s it’s length is pointed down towards the surface of your work surface. With the brown paper, cut 2 triagles (for simplicity we will number the corners a,b, and c). draw the distance from a to b one and a half inches and draw the point of c two inches from the a/b axis. Bring the points a and b together and trim so that they can be glued to each side of the head toilet paper tube to form ears. With the blonde yarn, wrap around you four finger approximately twenty times. Tie a small piece of yarn around all twenty loops tightly and cut the looped yarn into opposite the tied off knot. Glue this into the top hole of the toilet paper tube between the ears made with the brown paper. Make a similar looped yarn assembly and glue this to the rear end of your donkey opposite the head end. Paint two blue or green eyes on the donkeys face and also paint a black nose and mouth. Cut two brown paper rectangles 3/4 inch wide and 1 1/4 inch long. Cut one end of the 3/4 inch side in a simi-circle. On the opposite end make cuts 1/2 inch long and 1/8 inch between cuts towards the simi-circle end. Now roll the cut end around a small pencil or straw. These are the eye lids and should be glued so that they are just touching the tops of the painted eyes. Paint the base of each leg tube black about 3/8 inch around each.
Now with your donkey complete, buy small packages of cheese, summer sausage, crackers and any other treat your Dad enjoys and stuff them into the horizonal tube on your donkeys back. You might want to put some green or red tissue paper in around the goodies in the donkeys back pack.
Happy Hobbying!
The upcycled back scratcher is a great idea.
I used to do needlepoint pictures for my dad.
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I absolutely LOVE the Rustic Cabin Plaque for Grandpa because it’s so unique and yet simple enough for anyone to make, even me! The most meaningful craft gift that I made for my father was a framed poem that I had written about all the wonderful things He had taught me while I was growing up and in it I stressed that I had a lot to be thankful for in having him for my father. He kept that framed poem for years and would show EVERYBODY that came to visit him.
I like the Dads & Lads Book!
Thanks for keeping me going-I’m a beginner in crochet and low income.Beginning now at retirement age is a bit dauntine.I thank you for I waon the yarn to make the poodle! I wouldn’t have tried it otherwise! It looks hard but since I can afford to try it now,I am!! Now I’m looking to you for Father’s Day! Thanks for the opportunites and God Bless!
Folding money has always been a fascination.
It’s wonderful to see a book given away that a man would be interested in
We buy gift cards for him. What do you get a person who has everything. I would like the papers for men.
My favorite Father’s Day project is the Collage Dad frame.Any book would be fine just make me a winner!
we’re doing the pencil/pen holder – the kids have painted the sticks and will glue them on a container. We’re also doing a big canvas – hand painting with a mess of different colors. Very abstract! And the moneyfolding book looks interesting..
Great gifts for a father or husband.My husband the father of 2 grown sons.One 24 A chief in Hillsborugh,NC.The other is an patent examiner in Alexandria,Vir.Would do anything for his sons.Danny Jr. and Alex feel the same about thier father.They would do anything for him.
can’t wait to win and give my dad a wonderful gift. thanks so much.
This year I’m making my husband a collage of all of our grandchildren, framing it and presenting it to him for Father’s Day. If chosen a winner, I would like the Papers for Men or Money Folding.
I love the Dad and son tye-dye camo set. In my case, it would be something my daughter and best friend (who is like a dad to her) would share. I have a little tomboy. I like the Dad and Lads book!
I like to take a new picture of the kids and frame it for Father’s Day.
The kids make their own cards.
My husband is diabetic and the thing he appreciates the most for Father’s Day is when I make him homemade cookies or confectionery. Here in South Africa our range of diabetic products is not overly large, so when it comes to special occasions, I have to search for something out of the ordinary to make for him. I would like the book of men’s papers. Thanks.
the Collage Dad frame
My favorite “make it” for dad was painted coffee mugs and bowls. I took the kids to one of those ceramic shops and they had a grand time painting these for their dad. And you know what? They’re still in use 10 years later! (it’s truelly amazing they are still in one piece!)
For my Dad, I like to make his favorite Butterscotch Fudge. He loves it and usually request it. I would like book #1- Folding Money.
My dad loves to read to i am buying him a book as usual. he usually appreciates it a lot.
from your site i love the airplane card, and my choice of the book would be papers for men.
I love all craft gifts for my dad that include photos. The best one I made for him was a key ring (he collects key rings) that I made him from a western style belt buckle. I shrunk a picture of my mom and him together (very old vintage photo) and covered it with clear plastic I saved from packaging of a product, then adhered behind the buckle, making the buckle a frame, with silver air conditioning tape. Then I bent the belt buckle prong into a loop, attaching the key ring in this loop. Hope that makes sense.
I would love to win the money folding book if I were to win.
I made a dozen roses out of duct tape once – it was a nice way to decorate the tool box!
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http://www.favecrafts.com/Fathers-Day/A-Card-for-Dad
that looks fun!
A Great DIY gift for dad is personally knitted Wood covers for his golf clubs
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I forgot to pick a book. My choice would be Money Folding: Making Banknotes into Gifts You Can Spend
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I like the Father’s Day Burger Box project on favecrafts.
Thanks for the chance to win!
–Liza
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Sorry, please disregard the previous entry–forgot to tell you I like the #3 book best!
I like the Father’s Day Burger Box project on favecrafts.
Thanks for the chance to win!
–Liza
ejm6x (at) yahoo (dot) com
The upcycled back scratcher!
The upcycled back scratcher!
Banknotes Book!
The most I like idea of keepsake box for dad. Great and simple.
I really want to get Paper for Men:)
Greeting!
I’d like the money folding book. My favorite gift idea are always home made coupon books.
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My dad only ever wants consumable treats, so my favourite diy would have to be cooking. At christmas this year I made figs in syrup, a hit! Basically just get some dried figs, cook up a pot of sugar syrup, and stew those figs for a few hours, then pop em in a jar with the syrup and refridgerate until they are fully rehydrated. Yummy. I’d love the money folding book, what a great way to give cash gifts with flair.
I take pictures of my kids and put them on sturdy paper and them my kids draw around them.
Either book
i like the A Card for Dad
The best Father’s Day gift I made was a matted photo in a rustic frame, with rustic emellishments & journaling all over the mat, overlapping photo & frame, a remembranc of a special outdoor adventure.
My favourite DIY idea for Fathers Day is to make him a coupon book because I can customise the coupons and make it a very personal gift.
My favorite father’s day gift is a gift certificate to the local hardware store
My husband has really gotten into all the crafting that I do. He always asks me to make him things and he allows me to show him what I am doing. He even attempts some projects himself. I also Include my son. For father’s day we are crocheting dad a pillow with # 1 DAD embroidered on it. But I know he would also love the folding money book, he has tried some of the money folding techniques online and he does pretty well with it.
My favorite DIY gift for Dad is a quilt. I have been making quilts for a few years now and I always get such high praise for them. I’ve even made a quilted jacket.
Decoupage is a great way to customize a container for Dad’s desk, workbench or hobby room.
I used old postage stamps to decoupage a small wood box I filled it with stamp hinges – a ‘never have enough’ accessory for stamp collectors.
The best Fathers Day present made so far has been one that was at first a dissapointment to him, then he realized what it actually was. It was a clear salad bowl of crumbled money that looked like lettuce. I used red pom poms for cherry tomatoes, large orange rick rack for carrots and pipe cleaners shaped into rings and colored on the outside edges with purple marker for onions. Surely a “healthy” gift that was a true surprise.