Better Personalized Fathers Day Ideas For Your Dad

"Fathers are our teachers, our role models, our mentors, our friends," says Alyssa Capucilli, author of My Dad And Me. "They connect us to our past and give us the courage to face the future.

It's important to honor them to thank them for their love, kindness and encouragement." This year, moms and children should work together to think up creative Fathers Day ideas and homemade gifts that will make dad feel truly appreciated and loved.

While we should undoubtedly work toward this end every day, it's especially important to celebrate this Father's Day message this June 20th.

Personalized Fathers Day ideas run far and wide. Kids can color a personalized travel mug or insert a family photo as a great Father Day craft idea. "Now while at work, every time my husband gets his coffee, he will think of our children and have a picture close at hand too," explains Tanya R. Mother Lauren has her kids write letters for their dad, which are then stapled into a booklet.

She prints out a picture of the five kids on the cover of the book. "We have been doing this for about six years now and he still loves to go back and read his books from the kids and so do they," she says. Heartfelt Father's Day poems and letters are some of the most memorable keepsakes a parent can receive.

Daughter Roberta said she wrote her dad a 1984 Father's Day letter about all the ways he positively impacted her life. She says, "When he died six weeks later very unexpectedly, I discovered he had requested this letter be put in the coffin."

If you have a video camera handy, creative youngsters can record their most creative Fathers Day ideas in movie format. Kids can make lists of their favorite family memories, of all the things Dad has taught them, or of their favorite traits Dad has.

Many kids like to write Father's Day poems they can act out or recite in the video. If your family is high-tech with computers, scanners and programs like Adobe Premier or Windows Movie Maker, you can create a photo collage set to music as part of your Father's Day special video.

It's important that mom set aside some time to help make this video turn out well. It needn't be perfect to make an impact, but it should be something the kids can be proud of!

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