Father’s Day Activities for Students: Fun Classroom Ideas
Hey teacher!
Father's Day lands in the middle of a busy term, and somehow it still sneaks up on us every year.
The good news: you don't need a craft cupboard full of supplies or a whole afternoon to pull off something the dads and father figures in your students' lives will actually keep.
Everything in this post is a print-and-go resource from our own Father's Day collection. Print it, hand it out, and let your students do the rest.
Below you'll find what each one is, which year levels it suits, and how to pull the whole lot together into a bulletin board at the end.
Start With the #1 Hero Trophy Craft
If you only have time for one thing this week, make it this one.
The Father's Day Activity is an open-ended trophy template with space for students to draw their hero, add their name, and personalise it however they like. It works from Kindy right through the primary years, because the level of detail is entirely up to the child.
I actually made the first version of this one for Hew — my husband, and the other half of Mrs Edgar. Our three each made him one that same year. They were four, five and six at the time, and the three finished trophies could not have looked more different. The four-year-old's was mostly enthusiastic scribble and one very large sun. The six-year-old wrote a list. All three went on the fridge, and that's really the point: same sheet, three different kids, three things worth keeping.
It's deliberately not dad-specific either. Students can make theirs for a step-dad, grandad, pop, uncle or carer — whoever their person is. Nobody's left sitting there wondering what to write.
Run it as a quiet thirty-minute activity, or split it across two sessions: drafting in the first, colouring and decorating in the second.
The Father's Day Booklet: A Handprint Keepsake
This is the classic one — a handprint craft on the cover, and a writing prompt inside: This is my Dad. ___ is awesome because ___.
The handprint is what makes it. Parents keep these ones. We've had teachers tell us dads have brought a booklet back out at a parent-teacher interview years later.
Best for: Kindy to Year 2. Have paint and wipes ready, and do handprints in small groups while the rest of the class works on the writing page.
Get the Father's Day Booklet →
The Flip Book: For the Students Who Need a Prompt
Some students will fill a page without any help. Others will stare at it for ten minutes. The Flip Book is for the second group.
Each page gives them one specific thing to answer — my favourite memory with you so far, I love you because — plus space for a drawing or a photo. Small prompts, small spaces, no blank-page panic.
Best for: Year 2 to Year 6. It also works as a proper writing lesson rather than just a craft. Model one page together as a class, then let them go.
The Father's Day Poster: The One That Makes Dads Laugh
A fill-in-the-blank questionnaire about dad, plus an "I Love My ___" page with room to draw him.
Fair warning: the answers are usually the best part. Students will confidently report that their dad is forty-seven metres tall and that his favourite food is coffee. Read a few out before they go home — it's a good five minutes.
Best for: any year level. It's the lowest-prep option in the collection. Print, hand out, done.
The Coupon Book: A Gift That Costs Nothing But Time
Students fill in their own coupons — a hug, washing the car, one hour of not arguing about bedtime — and dad redeems them across the year.
It's worth having the conversation before they start writing: what does your dad actually do for you, and what could you do back? You'll get far better coupons than "I will be good."
Best for: Year 1 upwards. It's also the one that keeps giving long after the day itself.
Turn It Into a Father's Day Bulletin Board
Once the crafts are done, don't send them all straight home. Pin them up first.
Pick a title that lets everyone in — "Our Heroes" or "The Best People We Know" work better than "Super Dads." Then:
- Use the trophy craft as your centrepiece and cluster the writing pages around it
- Stick to a single-colour border so the student work does the talking
- Leave a strip along the bottom where students can add one line about a favourite memory
- Keep it up through pick-up week so families actually see it
Then send everything home a day or two before the weekend.
Making It Work for Every Student
Father's Day is a hard week for some kids, and you'll usually know which ones in your class before you start.
A few things that help:
- Say "your dad, or someone special to you" in the very first instruction — not as an afterthought once someone puts their hand up
- Have blank cover versions ready so a student can write "Grandad" or "Uncle Sam" without having to ask
- Let students make theirs for someone who isn't a father figure at all
- Let a student opt out quietly and work on something else, no explanation needed
Our templates are open-ended for exactly this reason. There's no pre-printed "DAD" anywhere you can't work around.
Get the Whole Father's Day Collection
All five resources live in one place, ready to print.
Grab the lot from our Father's Day digital downloads and you've got Father's Day covered from Kindy to Year 6 without a single trip to the shops.
Posters for the classroom walls, a coupon book, a flip book, a handprint booklet and the trophy craft — all print-and-go, all open-ended enough to suit whoever your students want to make them for.
More From The Blog
The Mrs Edgar Resources Used in This Post
- Father's Day Activity (trophy craft)
- Father's Day Booklet
- Father's Day Flip Book
- Father's Day Poster
- Father's Day Coupon Book
That's Father's Day sorted — five print-and-go Father's Day activities for students, one bulletin board, and no last-minute craft supply run.
If you use any of these with your class, we'd love to see them. Tag us @mrsedgarsclass on Instagram.
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P.P.S. Our full Digital Resources Section has printables for just about every point in the school year.
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