A Little Book About My Dad – Father’s Day ECE Printable

Create a meaningful Father’s Day keepsake that captures children’s own words, ideas and experiences.

A Little Book About My Dad is a simple six-page printable designed especially for early childhood settings. Rather than every child creating an identical Father’s Day craft, kaiako can talk with tamariki about the special things they enjoy doing with Dad and scribe their words into the book.

Children can then make each page their own through drawing, colouring, painting, collage, stickers or mark-making — making it suitable for younger tamariki too.

The book includes prompts about:

• playing together at home
• favourite places to go and things to do together
• why they love Dad
• special people they enjoy spending time with
• space for children to draw, decorate and create

Designed as A5 pages for little hands, the resource can be printed on A4 paper for easy printing and assembly.

A lovely way to support child voice, creativity and conversations about important relationships, while creating a special Father’s Day gift families can treasure.

This activity is also great for supporting emergent literacy, particularly children’s growing understanding that print, pictures and words carry meaning. As kaiako scribe children’s ideas and read their words back to them, tamariki can begin to see the connection between what they say and the words that are written on the page.