::: I love Dad because …
Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Here in Melbourne it is Fathers’ Day on the first Sunday in September. We are not inclined to make a big fuss about presents and cards, but we nearly always like to do a ‘why I love my Dad’ thing, similar to what we did for the mums earlier in the year.
Again we were given an idea from one of the children – they are so good, aren’t they?

Charlotte gave us this picture to hang up.
She cut out clothes from ribbon, taped it onto a piece of paper, then drew the head, arms and feet with black pencil.

We thought it looked great and would be a different way for the children to create pictures of their dads. We slightly adapted what Charlotte had done by offering the children a selection of plain and patterned paper and left them to come up with some great ideas.


Some children carefully drew the clothes on the coloured paper first, before cutting them out and pasting them to white paper.

Some careful informal measuring also took place so that the tops fitted the bottoms.

Others of course were not so fussy.

Many of them included themselves in the picture too and regardless of the way they were made each one was as unique as it was beautiful!

The children then dictated a story, to our student Nikki, about why they love their dads which was typed up, printed out and pasted onto their beautiful pictures.

Then the old favourite once more …

laminating the finished product.

Simple but effective. We hope the dads like them.
Thanks for the irresistible idea Charlotte!



















