Wait—how does it work? Dad will be impressed by this handmade novelty card that stands up on its own, showing off a dangling and rotating piece with images and a Father’s Day message.
Print the Father's Day Danglers pattern on white paper or cardstock. Make Father's Day card following the detailed instructions in the Dangler Cards tutorial, steps 2 thru 5 and step 7. Get started with the prep work below.
Father’s Day crafts from kids are the things Dad loves most—he’ll be delighted to display this card so he can look at it every day.
Prep work: Cut two 4¼″ by 5½″ rectangles of tan cardstock—or use any color cardstock you like, maybe even a digital paper design printed on white cardstock. Cut a 2" by 3" rectangle from the same cardstock as the base for your dangler. The cardstock cut away to make the card opening in Step 2 can be trimmed down to make the dangler.
Print the Father's Day Danglers pattern on white paper or cardstock. Cut out two dangler rectangles from the Father's Day Danglers pattern. Glue the rectangles on either side of the 2" by 3" dangler.
To assemble card: Follow the instructions in the Dangler Cards tutorial, steps 2 thru 5 and step 7. Use brown thread to hang the dangler and use an 1/8" hole punch or a sewing needle to punch a small hole for the thread in the top of the dangler.
The Father's Day Danglers pattern features a variety of colorful Father's Day awards and messages that are sized for the 2" by 3" rectangular dangler.
Patterns are Adobe PDF files. The Adobe Reader is available for free.
All of Aunt Annie's project patterns are designed to be printed on standard letter-size paper (8.5"x11" or A4). When printing from Adobe Reader, you may need to select Auto-Rotate and Center or Choose paper source by PDF page size to ensure the best fit.
Did you make a card just like this or throw in your own ideas?
Tip: Aunt Annie has several crafts to make for Dad—check them out!
Tip: Make a colorful card, by printing Aunt Annie's digital papers on white cardstock. This card features Yellow Stars on Blue-green (Yellow Stars collection) and White+Pale Blue Dots on Blue (White+ Dots on Blue collection) printed on the front and back of white cardstock. The dangler is hung with white crochet thread and a clear, crystal bead.
Father's Day
Tip: For Father's Day crafts, including cards and these gift bags, see the Father's Day Crafts roundup.
