So you have waited till the last minute to think of a thoughtful gift idea for the dads in your life… or you just didn’t realize it’s this weekend!! I know! It snuck up on us too! We like to give handmade gifts filled with love around here on Father’s day and Mother’s day. But sometimes life gets busy, and we leave our loved filled DIY gifts till the last minute! Since my kiddos are still young, I assist them in their gift giving. Otherwise I don’t think any gifts would be given… Little kids!! This last minute gift comes from a daughter to her daddy. The Daddy Daughter Frame! I’m sure you could come up with some other words that would work for this project that would work for the boys… be creative. I have added some ideas for other word combinations later in this post!

FATHERS DAY DADDY DAUGHTER FRAME GIFT IDEA

MATERIALS NEEDED:

• Shadow Box Frame (the one I used was purchased from Home Sense for $20)
• Photograph of Daddy and Daughter (you can print one out at home if you have a colour printer, or it is very inexpensive to send it to Costco or Wal-Mart to print)
• Scrabble Pieces
• Hot Glue and Hot Glue Gun
• Pins

METHOD:

Step 1: Open your shadow box frame and lay out your photo and scrabble pieces in your desired locations.

Step 2: Pin your photo in place in all 4 corners (make sure the pins that you use are short enough to stand up straight, without hitting the glass).

Step 3: Use your Hot Glue Gun to Glue your scrabble pieces in place. I left about a 1/4 inch space between each letter, and away from the photo.

Step 4: Put your Daddy Daughter Frame back together! DONE!

So in full disclosure… I did not originally come up with this awesome idea. I found this idea on Pinterest when I was searching for DIY Fathers Day Craft Ideas. This was my inspiration found here.  AND… We made this Father Daughter Frame 2 years ago… Hence why Ivy is so small in the photo, and Shawn doesn’t have any grey hair or wrinkles!! (Jokes… Shawn doesn’t have grey hair… wink… yet!).

Our Daddy Daughter Frame lives in Ivy’s room, where she keeps a tight hold on it. I just tried to remove it to take a couple photos of it, and she lost her marbles. She loves her Daddy sooo much!

So Ideas to make this frame your own!!! Such as using this idea for a father son project…

If you have a son whose name starts with a D, You could create…

• Daddy Duggie
• Daddy Drue
• Daddy Dexter

Or if you have a girl with a D name:

• Daddy Daisy
• Daddy Diamond
• Daddy Diva

Or you could use the word Father:

• Father Daughter (sharing the R at the end of their names)
• Father Fred
• Father Fiona

You could use a letter close to the first or last letter: (sharing the “A”)

• Daddy Abbie
• Daddy Adam
• Daddy David (sharing the “a”)
• Daddy Lana (sharing the “a”)

It just came to me, if any of your children’s names end in a “Y”:

• Daddy Ivy!!!!!
• Daddy Jimmy
• Daddy Abby
• Daddy Lily

Or some other phrase completely different:

• Super Dad / Super Kid
• My Dad / My Hero
• Daddykins / Ivykins (just add a “kins” to the end of Daddy and the child’s name and link up the last letter “S”)
• Rad Dad / Rad Kid

Anywhooo, You get the idea! Get creative with this Father Daughter Frame and give this quick DIY fathers day gift idea a try! It’s a keepsake you can cherish forever! Ivy sure does!

If you are looking for some more last minute DIY Fathers Day Gift Ideas, here are the links to our Frameable Kids Art and Framed Canvas with Personalized Daddy Sayings!

Until next time, love to all the Daddies, and enjoy creating beautiful things everyday!

XO JCL