Father's Day fun

When I asked my hubby what he wanted for Father's Day, he responded that there wasn't really anything in particular that he wanted.  He did say that the best gift is if I help the kids make him something.  I had already planned on helping them when they came to our house but had not decided what to do.  So of course I started browsing Pinterest yesterday to get some ideas.  I found a few things and posted them.  I had full intentions of following one of the pins and making the card shaped like a shirt and tie, or the family "tree", or one of the many cards I saw.  When I went to the store with the kids, I let them pick out the colors of paint they wanted.  I had decided that whatever "card" we chose, I was going to put it in a frame.  When we got to the frame isle, I started to think about what I actually wanted to do since, what I did determined the frame.  Then I got this idea.  I turned to Alex and told him I had a great idea.

I put my hands together and asked Alex what shape they made.  He noticed that it was a heart.  Then I put my heels together and toes apart and asked him what letter that made.  He caught on the "V".  I explained to him what we were going to make from that point and he gave me this look like, "Seriously?!".  Okay, so it's a Girly idea but I knew it was something Rory would like.  I decided to use one had and foot from each of the kids to make the "O" and "V" in LOVE.  I was going to just paint or color the other letters and have it say "We LOVE Dad".  I originally selected a large frame that was a matte with 4, 4x6 pictures.  Unfortunately, I was planning on using a poster board and the frame was too long.  I settled with a smaller frame that held two 5x7 pictures.

When we got home,  I pulled the matte out of the frame and traced it onto the poster board so I knew how much room I had to work with.  Then I got every thing set up on the floor in our kitchen since that was the only place in our apartment where there was a hard surface to work on.  I used paper plates to put a small amount of paint on it and then spread it around with a paint brush.  The kids then made their hand and foot prints.  The fun part was cleaning them up afterwards but I just used a wet paper towel.  I ended up making the "L" out of my thumb and index finger.  I think it would have been better to just paint it but oh well.  Aurora helped me make the "L" and I finished the picture off and painted the WE and DAD.

It certainly didn't turn out exactly how I envisioned it but what really matters is the fact that Rory loves it.  He has something the kids made with a part of them.  He can see it when they are not with us and we will always  see how small they were as they grow older.