How to Make a Father's day Story Card

This is my husband's first father's day. So I wanted to make him something special. Our journey to parenthood was not the easiest and we adopted our son a little over 6 months ago. It has been wonderful to be parents.

This Father's day book tells the story of how my husband became a dad. Each page is in the shape of the letters spelling out f-a-t-h-e-r and all the lines of text on the pages start with the letter (Ex- the page that is in the shape of the "f" all the lines of text start with "f"). I also thought of writing down traits that start with the letters as well, but got excited about making the story.

Materials:
Paper
scissors
small box (to wrap it in)
adhesive
photos
ribbon (not pictured)
Markers (pictured but I didn't end up using them)

the brads and the skewer and the ruler are also in the picture but I did not use them... in the original plan I was going to but went a different direction and didn't want to take another picture... you get the point!

1.) Trace around your box 6 times (one for each letter). This will make sure that it will fit in the box when you are done.

2.) on the back side of the paper draw out your letter... be sure to draw it backwards since it is the back side. I wanted mine to be big and block-y

3.) Decide what you want your pages to say. If you are going to write a story or the attributes. I printed mine off on the computer using some fun fonts. I cut the writings out for each page.

Here is what each page says:

F

Far away in Korea a little boy waits for his parents

Far away two parents wait in America for a child

A

A lot of waiting

A lot of prayer

A lot of trust in God brought this family together through

Adoption

T

Traveling to Korea so that we could all be

Together

H

Home at last on Nov 5th

Here to stay is our son

E

Everything Changes

Excited to be a family

Exhausted from lack of sleep

R

Rightfully matched together

Raising a son takes a lot of

Responsibility

4.) I like to antique the edges on the paper to make them not so sharp. I use a brown ink and rub just the edges and the corners on the ink. It is a nice touch.

5.) Attach your text to your pages

6.) Punch holes and attach your photos

7.) Tie your ribbon through your book:

8.) Decorate your box and place your book inside! I used tissue paper, and extra paper scarps and Mod Podge (to attach). I wrote "Happy Father's Day" with a Sharpie

I hope that you have a great Father's day!