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.)
2. Put 2 large pieces of tape across the top and bottom. Then flip it over.
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.
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!
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!
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That’s a great craft for my boys! Thanks!
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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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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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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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very cute idea….my kids love puzzles
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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! 🙂
Thank you for this! We made one for Father’s Day!
Aw! Fun! Did you post pics? I’d love to see!
One picture is up here: http://logansbabyblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/fathers-day-with-grandpa.html
Amanda this is a great activity for kids for father’s day. We included it in our post for father’s day projects @ theclassroomcreative. Hope you have a great week!
Thanks for including it! 🙂
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