These are our top 5 Father’s Day crafts kids can make. Each one is guaranteed to bring a smile on Father’s Day!

1. Shrinky Dink Handprint Keychain

Thread these shrinky-dink hands on a keychain…and create a Father’s Day gift that lasts all year long.

2. Personalized Softball

This gift is fun for kids to make, great for a sporty dad — and very easy to pull off with limited time!

3. Pom Pom Craft

This simple activity is perfect for toddlers working on fine motor skills.

4. Mason Jar Frame

This easy-to-make gift is perfect for displaying proudly, at home or at work.

5. My Dad Rocks! Paperweight

This clever paperweight is ideal for a dad with a great sense of humor…who rocks!

Happy Father’s Day from Kiwi Crate!

June: Nature Explorer

In June, encourage indoor and outdoor discovery with our Nature Explorer crate!

By day, kids will construct and decorate their own nature collection box—then hone their observational skills by finding and collecting treasures with the included scavenger hunt cards. By night, they’ll build and embellish a tin punch-style lantern that really lights up, while learning about the stars in the night sky.

July: Wonders of Water

In July, continue the adventure with our Wonders of Water crate!

With this crate, kids will build and steer their very own colorful sailboats—perfect for playing in the kiddie pool or the bathtub. Then they’ll explore color diffusion by making their own paper watercolor animals. With the included bonus materials, they’ll explore scientific properties of water, like surface tension and buoyancy.

August: Fun With Flight

In August, discover the magic of flying–and get active–in our Fun With Flight crate.

Kids will build and decorate their own set of colorful kites. (To fly them, just start running and watch them glide!) Then they’ll create their own retro-style rubber band rockets, and launch them while getting an introduction to aerodynamics. With the included bonus materials, they’ll make amazing paper gliders, like a twirling helicopter and flipping fish.

Join our Summer Discovery Series for a whole season’s worth of fun!

What You’ll Need

• duct tape
• contact paper
• scissors

Measure the width of your duct tape. Mine was a little bit over 2 1/2 inches, so I cut a strip of contact paper that was about 3 inches wide. Once you have those two things, you’re ready to go.

Wrap a strip of duct tape, sticky side up, around your child’s wrist. When you overlap the ends, it will stay on. I made the bracelet a little bit loose so it would be easy to slip on and off.

As you walk and hunt together, pick up things that interest you or that you think are pretty and stick them on to your bracelet. This is the perfect time to talk about colors, shapes, and textures. (I know these are weeds! I just don’t have the heart to tell her that the little yellow flowers she always picks for me are weeds.)

When your bracelet is full, take it off, and push the items firmly onto the tape so they are as flat as possible. Lay the contact paper (sticky side down) on the bracelet all the way around and press to stick it to the tape and around the objects.

There should be an extra, small edge of contact paper on both sides of the bracelet. Fold it down underneath the bracelet to seal it. I cut a slit in the edge of the contact paper every inch or two so it would fold under neatly. If it doesn’t seem sealed in enough or you want a decorative finish, add a strip of colored tape on each edge of the bracelet.

My kids love to chase frogs and collect leaves…so I thought making a frog out of leaves would join these two loves in perfect harmony! We took a little nature walk to find the perfect-sized rock for our slimy frog and collected the perfect shade of green leaves. Together these nature findings became a very adorable froggy friend!

What You’ll Need

• rocks or stones
• leaves
• googly eyes
• felt
• glue

After we collected our rock and leaves, we grabbed some glue, googly eyes, and some felt scraps in pink and green colors.

My two little crafters started tearing up the leaves they collected. They enjoyed this part a little too much!

We added some glue to the rock and they began to put this frog together, piece by piece. It was like a little frog puzzle.

After our rock was a nice frog green, the kids added some felt and eyes. That really turned the rock into a frog!

With a felt smile and froggy legs, this rock was hardly recognizable. He now sits on my desk. My children like to remove him for the occasional leapfrog and ribbet sound off!

You can watch some of our favorite kid testers practice their nurturing in this month’s unveiling video. Harry, Sophie, and Drew visited Emma Prusch Farm Park to learn all about birds first-hand. Seeing a mother hen on her nest and feeding birds right from their hands really seemed to bring this month’s theme home to them. Before long, they had turned into a whole family of caring birds!

As the video shows, this month’s bird costume was a big hit! We wanted kids to be able to really unleash their imaginations on their masks and wings. Even in testing, no two kids’ masks were exactly alike. I loved seeing how unique each one turned out to be.

For our second project, we knew we wanted kids to be able to create a nest and eggs. But developing the project was a little tricky. What kind of yarn should we use, and what kind of glue? Should kids drape the yarn, or wrap it around the bowl? That’s why kid testing is essential to Kiwi Crate: we don’t consider a project ready until we know just what methods and materials work best.

Meanwhile, for our testers, the messy business of getting it just right was part of the fun…along with the egg racing game they invented. It was so fun, we included instructions in this month’s box!

Speaking of “getting it just right”, I’m not just making a pun when I say we had to break a lot of eggs to create this month’s experiment video: it took nearly two dozen.

As you can see, Nathan had tons of fun getting this one right—including testing how high he could drop the bouncy egg without breaking it. This is an easy experiment to try at home. All you need are vinegar, an egg…and a little patience.

This month’s box also includes plenty of bird facts that children can use in their play. (My kids were especially enchanted by the bowerbird, who collects blue objects from nature to feather his mate’s nest.) I hope you and your child enjoy learning all about birds and bird families this month! We’d love to see your child’s mask and wings—please feel free to share on Facebook! And, as always, to find out even more about this month’s theme, visit our Explore More page.

This nest is so simple to make, but comes out just darling! My daughter has made several now, to fill with her spring knick-knacks.

What You’ll Need

• paper bag (lunch-sized)
• shredded paper

We grabbed our paper bags and some fun colored paper shredding and got to work.

My daughter began to roll the bag outward and continued to roll down until she reached the bottom.

It is that easy! We had a nest ready to be filled with spring fun!

Emma added the colorful shredded “grass” and a few of her tissue paper eggs. I love how sweet they turned out and how easy they were to make.

Can you make a raw egg bounce? Turn a raw egg into a bouncy, rubber egg with just one household ingredient!