Forget the gifts this Father’s Day! With busy work and school schedules, after school activities, clubs, and personal projects, time is the best present a dad can get. So in the spirit of spending time with dad, here are a handful of engaging projects that are fun to build together so you can get the most out of your Sunday afternoon.
Marshmallow Shooters — Rain down gooey destruction on your foes/family members with this simple, lung-powered toy.Compressed Air Rockets — Build an easy launcher and rockets with common hardware store items in an afternoon.Mini Foosball — With just a few simple, household components, you can quickly put together your own Mini Foosball Game.Ray Gun Vector Weapon — This small, lo-fi, electronic noisemaker circuit makes raygun-style sounds, from classic pew! pew! noises to evolving death-ray-type tones.Diddley Bow — Build it with just a board, a wire, and a jar in about 10 minutes.Safe Bamboo Swords — Verily, let your little warriors save the kingdom with these easy-to-build and relatively harmless foam-covered swords.Chocolate Banana Pops — Build this fun, frozen treat together and come up with different ways to decorate your “popsicles!”Giant Spin Art — Head to the backyard and use a power drill to make large-scale spin art using full size canvases.Mini Spin Art — Turn electronic “junk” into into a cool DIY art tool.Soda Bottle Submarine — Build this simple submarine out of soda bottles and other household items.Paper Making 101 — Recycle your unwanted bills and junk mail into custom-made paper for drawing, making mini books, or personalized Father’s Day cards.Colorful Comic Kaleidoscope — This kaleidoscope has built-in illumination, so you can hold it right up against a printed page.Recycled Kaleidoscope — Here’s a simple Kaleidoscope you can create from recycled materials and common household items.Evasive Beeping Thing — This fun prank sends out a 5-second, high-pitched beep every few minutes. Great to build together, but maybe less great during a well-deserved Father’s Day afternoon nap.License Plate Guitar — This popular resonator guitar is easy to make and teaches the basics of electric guitars.Talking Booby Trap — Here’s a fun, sneaky project to keep family members from taking your stuff!Toy Car Launcher — This project is perfect for parents and kids obsessed with toy cars.Soldering Fume Extractor — For the electronics-inclined family, a soldering fume extractor is a good investment. Build one together for about $20.Gigantic Bubble Generator — This Arduino-controlled Bubblebot blows enormous, undulating soap bubbles that your young ones are sure to enjoy.Build a Quadcopter Drone with a Self-leveling Camera Gimbal — Share your mutual love of drones! You can build this hardware-store airframe together in a weekend.
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Father's Day is June 21st. Here's a roundup of Father's Day project kids can make for Daddy! Make this decorative Dad photo frame from Activity Village. If Dad is into tinkering with cars, make this car nut frame by Amanda at Kaboose with washers and bolts framed with his favorite…
For many dads, the best Father's Day gift might just be a little making-time with the kids. Not only do you end up with a cool finished project, you create some great memories. MAKE has two great project roundups for Father's Day, covering craft projects, simple building, technology and…
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