Today, was filled with lots of excitement and handmade gift giving. I celebrated Father's day with my wonderful brother and all this last week his wife, my nieces, and I have been getting our craft on with all of his gifts. Our day started out with my brothers daughters (my nieces) and I making my brother breakfast in bed. He was so surprised and really enjoyed his breakfast. After we all gathered in the living room, we had the girls start presenting their gifts. Starting with the homemade cards.
My brother use to have some aquariums and use to love them; unfortunately, after hurricane Katrina hit he stopped messing with all of his fish tanks and hasn't gotten any new ones yet. Then again he has his hands full with four beautiful little girls. The last two years I have come up with ideas for him to be able to have his fish tanks without having to worry about feeding the fish or cleaning the tank and the girls always help me put my ideas into action.
Last year we made an aquarium photo tank. We used construction paper, fish stickers, and a frame. Of course you can't forget your glue and scissors. Now I traced the different sea animals because I didn't have access to a printer at the time it was made but this project would be so much easier if you have a printer to print the animals. You also need the pictures to put in the middle of each animal. This would be best with the most recent photos. To make it more special and personal, we added my sis-in-laws hand print in the middle with his four girls hand prints next to hers to look like sea weed. This also serves as a special remembrance to look back on when the children get older. You will always be able to remember how small they were just by looking at their hand print.
This year we made a fish tank out of a pet carrier. We printed photos of the girls and then cut them out of the shape of the animals instead of putting them inside of the animal. We got real aquarium rocks and seashells. We also added the construction paper to the background of the tank so to give it the illusion of water. We also added the fish stickers again but no hand printed sea weed this year. :'(
Well I hope you all enjoyed my projects and if you have any questions, please email me at jesstastic.creations@gmail.com. Happy Father's Day!
