All You Need is Paper (and a little love) ESL/EFL activities

In Brazil, we celebrate Father's Day on the second Sunday in August. I got this idea for my first-graders on Pinterest. We painted the hands in one class and the following class they drew themselves in the middle so it would look like they were about to hug their dad. I wrote I love you on the board for them to copy and they all practiced saying Happy Father's Day as I took their pictures. I thought this was so easy and adorable, plus, it can be used for other events, like, Mother's or Family Day, Valentine's Day or even to reinnforce vocabulary like hug or parts of the body. Happy Day, everyone!  

 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.