Easy Father's Day Gift: Drink Coasters

I firmly believe holidays should be maintained, even when there aren't young kids in the picture, but what do you get for your dad when they are a grandpa and already have everything they want? In fact, we seem to be always downsizing in our family so we tried to go low-key this father's day with some cute drink coasters made by the kids (somewhat).

Supplies:

Drawing paper*

Drawing materials*

Corkboard contact paper/shelf liner

Clear contact paper/shelf liner

Scissors

*Alternately, you can have the kids use tissue paper cut up small for a stained glass effect! It just has to be flat to seal properly.

To make the drink coasters:

1. Have the kids draw a little picture. You can either go the easy route and give them a 4"x4" piece of paper to decorate or you can give them 2.75"-3" squares to decorate (we went the 2.75" route and made borders).

2. Unroll the clear contact paper, cut off a strip slightly larger than the size you want for your coasters (we did 4" square coasters so we cut off a strip that was 5" wide and as long as the roll of contact paper, about 20" roughly), and place the pictures drawing side down on the clear contact paper. If you are doing a frame, make sure you place the frame and then the drawing!

3. Unroll the corkboard contact paper, cut off a strip slightly larger than you want for the coasters (we did 5" wide and as long as the roll of contact paper, about 20" roughly), and remove the backing.

4. Very carefully (we had two people doing this!), flip the clear contact paper onto the corkboard so the sticky sides are touch. There is no going back here so go slow!

5. Cut out each coaster to the desired size, separating the coasters and trimming excess corkboard and plastic.

Yes, these really are very water resistant! I held it under running water for 30 seconds until it was soaked through and the image did not smudge. I think its a cute little gift that my father-in-law can enjoy for awhile!

My husband carefully lays the frame down on the clear contact paper. Once the frame was down, he placed the kids' picture inside the circle.

Time for the flip! I held down to corkboard while my husband flipped the clear contact paper onto it so the sticky sides were touching.

My husband recommends going really slow as you lay the clear contact paper down on the corkboard, going from one end to the other and smoothing it as you go.

My husband carefully trims each coaster to size.

Look at these cute coasters!