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Six Things to Build With Dad This Father's Day (Part 1)

Skip the gift card. Here are three projects you can actually do together. Plus 15% off Six Things to Build With Dad This Father's Day

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Six Things to Build With Dad This Father's Day

Part One

Six Things to Build With Dad This Father's Day

Father and son building a project together in a workshop

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Skip the Gift Card. Build Something With Him Instead.

The best Father's Day gift is an afternoon spent making something together. Six projects you can build using custom frames, and none of them involve hanging art on a wall. Here are the first three.

Anyone can order something online and ship it to him. What is harder to give, and harder to forget, is an afternoon working on a project together. These ideas use custom frames as the starting point. The rest is up to you.

1. The Travel Map Pin Board

A frame over a map with a cork or foam backing turns a wall into a record of everywhere he has been. Pin the town he grew up in, the rivers he has fished, the trips you took as a family. Custom sizing means it fits a single state, a region, or the whole world, depending on the story you want it to tell. Build it together and let him place the first pin.

Framed travel map with push-pins marking visited places

2. The Backlit Wall Sconce

A shadow box frame with an LED strip running the inside perimeter and a frosted acrylic panel as the face becomes a completely custom backlit wall fixture. Size it however the space demands. Finish it in whatever color matches the room. No two will ever be the same, and nobody will be able to figure out where it came from.

Backlit shadow box wall sconce with a frosted acrylic face

3. The Tool and Knife Display

A deep shadow box with custom-cut foam inserts turns a knife collection, fishing lures, fly tying tools, or precision instruments into a proper display. Whatever he has been storing in a tackle box or a drawer that he is genuinely proud of deserves better than that. Work together to measure, cut the foam, and mount it exactly the way he wants it.

Shadow box displaying knives and fishing lures in cut foam

Coming in Part 2

Three more ideas headed your way later this week.

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Six Things to Build With Dad This Father's Day (Part 1)

Six Things to Build With Dad This Father's Day

Skip the Gift Card. Build Something With Him Instead.

1. The Travel Map Pin Board

2. The Backlit Wall Sconce

3. The Tool and Knife Display

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