A Fishing Birthday

While my mom was at work she texted and asked when my dad would be home from work and if we could do a bbq for a surprise birthday dinner.  I told her that dad was planning on making fish and baked potatoes for dinner.  My dad was with me at the time so I sorta had to fib to him about the party. Luckily he had to go to the store.  So while he was out I made his favorite cake...yellow cake with homemade chocolate frosting.  My mom wanted some decorative fish for a game.  My sisters made those while I baked.  They had a lot of fun.  As you can see they made one that looks like my dad.  We also had camo fish and a fish with braces and glasses.

After we at our fish dinner we got the party set up in the front room while my dad was watching sports down stairs.  My sister put a magnet on the end of string and threaded yarn through a fishing pole so my dad could fish for his presents.  My mom put paper clips onto the paper fish and placed one fish in each of his birthday packages.  We also had three blow up fish that we put in some of the bags.  When he got those fish my mom instructed us to say, "Wow!  You caught a big one".  

Then my sister went down to get my dad saying, "Dad, I need you to catch a fish."  He replied "Why did one die?"  We shouted surprise when he came into the room.  He was pretty excited.  And he really loved "fishing" for his presents.  His gifts were all fishing related...in prepartion for our family vacation this summer.

We had a lot of fun celebrating my dads birthday.  I wanted to share this idea with you because I thought it would also make a super fun party idea for children as well.  Let us know if you used this idea and how it went.

Father's Day banner

I hope you didn't think that I forgot Father's Day...today we will be making a quick and easy Father's Day banner. It will add a fun and festive touch to a Father's Day party or just to let Dad know you are thinking of him on his special day!

So lets get started!

You will need:

12x12 pieces of paper (plain or decorative)

White card stock

scissors

glue

brads

pop dots

I folded my 12x12 paper half and cut out two ties from each piece of paper.

I printed out some letters at Lettering Delights...you should check them out they are amazing!

Then, I cut out my letter. I believe Lettering Delights can connect to your Cricut and Silhoutte.

Put pop dots on the back of your letters and place them on your ties.

I just learned this great idea from my mother-in-law...

Take a cream or white or whatever color paper you want to make a shirt. I used a two cream colored 12x12 pieces of paper. Fold your paper in half. Mark every 5 inches. Cut. You should have a card (two for each sheet of paper).

On the crease of the card mark 1 1/2 inches from both ends. This will be your folding line for the collar. Now mark one inch down on from the crease on both sides. Cut on this line 3/4 of the way towards your 1 1/2 inch mark.
Fold the flap inwards creating a collar.

Cut out 4 smaller ties to go on the shirts. Glue the "knot" of the tie down.

Glue the collar down.

This is my husbands first father's day. So I put our sons foot prints in one card, traced his hand prints in two cards and let him color in the fourth card.

Put your banner together with the brads.

Hang it up on the wall!

You can do lots of different banners as well. I chose an outdoor banner because my husband likes the outdoors. You can chose a theme for your banner based on what your husband/dad loves to do. Some examples are:

Golf

Fishing

Hunting

Cars

Motorcycles

Biking

Sports

Gardening

Reading

You can make your ties with paper that matches your theme or don't do ties at all...do shapes that match your theme. Some shape examples would be:

Golf: golf ball, golf cart, golf pants, hat, clubs, etc.

Fishing: pole, lures, tackle box, bait, fish, etc.

Hunting: rifle, targets, animals (bird, deer, elk, moose), etc.

Have fun and be creative!!!

Send a picture of your finished banner to doodlesanddoilies(at)gmail(dot)com and I will post them to share with all of the other Doodles & Doilies readers!

Don't forget to make your wheel of affection for dad...go to my tutorial here.

Wheel of affection tutorial

Today we will be making a wheel of affection. This is a fun alternative or addition to a Mother's Day, Father's Day, Birthday, Valentine's Day, etc. card.

You will need:

two 12*12 paper

a round plate

magazine

scissors

glue

a colorful brad

pen

Cut out word/phrases in your magazine that describe the person you will be making the wheel for.

Onto your two pieces of paper trace your plate.

Cut them out. Cut the top one smaller than the top for an accent.

Put your brad in middle. Cut out a hole big enough for your largest magazine phrase/word.

I glued my words on while my wheel was together...that way the words were lined up with the hole all the way around the circle.

Here is what the wheel looks like without the top.

For a more personalized touch add some words on top of your wheel.