Father's Day Preschool Activities

Yeah! It's Father's Day!

Father's Day preschool activities are designed to allow the kids to show their daddies just how much they are loved.

Having preschooler aged children can be a joy, especially when it comes to showing happiness, gleefulness and joy. Give them a holiday to celebrate and they'll shower you with their treasures.

Performing for the Occasion -

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How about a mini concert? Get some Father's Day songs to sing.

You can find many of these online and each of them is set to the music of an already well-known song such as Old MacDonald and the like.

Story Time -

Every kid loves a good story and the list of Father's Day preschool activities wouldn't be complete without reading books.

Some titles that are perfect for the occasion include A Perfect Father's Day, Because Your Daddy Loves You, In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall and The Secret Father's Day Present . What is your favourite Father's Day read?

Simple Crafts -

With simple shape crafts the preschoolers can put something together for Daddy that he can hold onto for quite a while.

Hands can be traced onto colored paper and pasted on top of a stem for flowers.

Pencil shapes can be colored and decorated for bookmarks for the bookworms in the family. Post-it Note flags can be made as well.

How about a beating heart as preschool activities for father's day?

Paper Plate Crafts -

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Simple Crafts like these lion and lamb paper plates as shown in the picture can be made for the dad. Something cool that the Dad can keep in his office!

HandMade Greeting Cards -

father's day preschool activities
What holiday is complete without greeting cards? By using rectangles for bodies and circles for heads the preschoolers can put together greeting cards for the fathers.

Use one set of larger shapes for the father figure and one smaller set of shapes for the child.

Glue the smaller within the larger. With a heart in the middle of the child figure it will show the love that dad so well deserves.

Barbeque Apron -

Many families love a great cookout. Father's Day preschool activities can include making papa a barbeque apron to while away the summer days at the grill. Pour a bunch of colors of fabric paint onto paper plates.

Provide canvas aprons for the kids to decorate. Show them how to write messages such has "My Daddy is the Best Cook" and have the kids use sponges to dip into the colors to decorate. They can also apply handprints to the apron.

Car Shade Project -

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Perhaps the Father's Day preschool activities could include a car shade especially if you live in hotter climates. Supply cardboard auto shades to the children.

Choose a background color for the window shade and paint one side. More than one coat may be needed to cover the text and graphics that will already be on the shades.

An adult can use large stencil letter's to spell out " _____'s Daddy" and the kids can color them in and decorate the letters. Let the kids fingerpaint whatever they like to on this special gift.

Pretzels for Dad -

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Everybody loves food and snacks. Have the kids bake whole wheat pretzels that say Happy Father's Day.

Instead of twisting the dough into pretzel shapes, have the kids twist them into letters to spell out a message to their fathers. Here's the recipe below.

1 package active dry yeast

1 cup warm water

2.5-3c whole wheat flour

1 tsp salt

3T vegetable oil

1 T honey

coarse salt

In a bowl dissolve the yeast in water, add 2c flour, oil and honey. Stir until smooth. Mix small amounts of the remaining flour until the dough formed is not too wet to handle.

Place dough in a greased bowl and let stand in a warm place for about 1 hour.

Heat oven to 400ï¿½F and punch down the dough. Divide the dough into equal pieces for the letters to be formed. Roll each into a long rope so you can form the letters and place on a greased cookie sheet.

Sprinkle with coarse salt and bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown.

This will yield 12 pretzels, so figure the quantity you need for the letters and adjust appropriately.

Message in a Bottle -

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A message in a bottle is way too easy to pass up. Have the kids write a special message to their dad and insert into a glass bottle.

You can seal the bottle with wax to be used as a kind of time capsule to be opened later down the line or simply us a cork as a stopper. Nice "Father" preschool activities!

Coloring Pages -

Lastly, let's not forget the good old fashioned coloring pages. These would be pages with themes such as fathers, families, love, sharing, or home. Father's Day preschool activities will strike the heart of even the strongest man with utter love. Give the kids a chance to be creative and show themselves in everything they do.

Dad will keep the treasures as long as possible and the love will be reciprocated. Have lot's of great Father's day preschool activities everyone!