| Mom's gifts have never really been hard to buy, | | | | hand prints and that only works as long you |
| but buying for dad is a nightmare because few | | | | you're little and your handprints are cute. If you |
| stores and even fewer magazines can give you a | | | | have kids you could put their handprints on it but |
| real suggestion and times like father's day you | | | | men still don't get very enthusiastic about things |
| start to think about bringing out the old crafting | | | | like curtains, sheets or tiles. |
| box and making something for dad (you did it | | | | Personalized may mean cheap |
| when you were little). Unfortunately, fathers day | | | | While the best thing about making gifts yourself |
| crafts are not the way to go if you're an adult or | | | | instead of relying on stores to sell them to you is |
| even a teenager. While crafts are something that | | | | that the gifts will have an extremely personalized |
| work for mom, your dad won't appreciate them | | | | touch, the thing with men is that they actually do |
| much. Here are three reasons why you shouldn't | | | | put a price on a lot of things. The cost and value |
| do a home craft project for your dad on fathers | | | | of something means a lot to every guy and while |
| day. | | | | men know that gifts aren't about a price tag, a |
| He won't get it | | | | homemade gift might still mean you were cheap |
| Remember when you were little and you'd draw | | | | and being cheap on fathers day gifts doesn't |
| stuff and whenever you showed it to your dad | | | | come off very well. |
| he'd say 'What is it?' He's very likely to say that | | | | As far as women are concerned, crafts are a |
| again about whatever it is you decide to make | | | | high value gift but with men things tend to get |
| because while women have the genes to | | | | complicated. If you want to buy a nice |
| appreciate a hand crafted gift item men just don't | | | | wholesome and useful or enjoyable fathers day |
| understand that kind of stuff. The only thing that | | | | gift for your husband, dad or son, try unique |
| would work is a hand knit sweater (try not to | | | | fathers day gift baskets. They're just as good as |
| make any patterns on it) and he might like. The | | | | anything else that you'd make at home and your |
| only problem is that he won't be able to use it till | | | | dad will actually be able to figure out what it is. If |
| winter. | | | | you don't think fathers day fruit baskets are |
| There isn't much to make | | | | special enough, try fruit bouquets. Fruit bouquets |
| If you were making a crafts project for your | | | | are fruit sculptures made with a large variety of |
| mom, you could scrap together some recipes and | | | | fresh fruit. They look like flowers and some fruits |
| make a recipe book or a picture scrapbook but | | | | like strawberries, pineapples, apples, and bananas |
| there isn't anything that you can make for your | | | | are dipped in chocolate (dark or white). If there's |
| dad unless you count towels or bed sheets with | | | | one thing any guy can appreciate its food. |