Happy Father's Day!

Father's Day in Brazil is on the second Sunday in August. This was our Father's Day activity for this year. You can use as many hearts as you like, but I thought 3 hearts would be easier for my third-grade class to use. They first made the shirt by cutting the top of the yellow paper around the size of your pinkie finger on each side and folding the strips down for the collar. Then, they cut out the hearts. We used the same technique that we used to make the clouds, so the hearts are all the same size. Before gluing the hearts together, they wrote a big YOU in the middle of each heart. Last, they wrote: you are in my heart on the yellow paper. I thought the black paper was nice to make all the colors pop out. I didn't write anything related to fathers so that each kid could decide to who they would give the card. Some kids don't have a father present in their lives. My students got creative and added their own ideas to the final project, which is always great.

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