Father’s Day Classroom Activities
Father’s Day honors and celebrates fathers. It’s an opportunity for students to acknowledge and appreciate fathers and father figures that positively impact their lives. Celebrate Father’s Day in your classroom with Father’s Day crafts and gift-making, lessons and activities exploring the history of Father’s Day, and activities for learning about family trees.
Choose from reading and writing activities to open up discussion about the role of fathers in society or explore the history of Father’s Day. Help students show their fathers how much they appreciate Father’s Day gifts, including ideas like photo albums, memory books, or coupon books.
Father's Day Activities & Printables
Create fun Father’s Day activities for your students to enjoy with these quizzes and printables. Test their knowledge of famous fathers or help students learn more about genetics, heredity, and family trees. Includes interactive quizzes from our sister site, Infoplease.- Father's Day Quiz
- Interactive Father's Day Quiz
- Interactive Famous Fathers Quiz
- Your Heredity
- My Family Tree
- Family Tree Wordsearch
Father's Day Lesson Plans
Use these lesson plans to create interesting lessons for Father’s Day. Choose from Father’s Day gift inspiration and Father’s Day card-making for elementary grades, an ELA lesson plan for middle school on what fatherhood means, and a high school lesson using statistics and data skills.Father's Day References
Use these encyclopedia-style references to support your lessons and help students learn more about fathers.History of Father’s Day
Despite the first Father’s Day celebration taking place in 1910, it didn’t become a national holiday until 1972, 58 years after Mother’s Day became an official holiday. Help students learn more about the history of Father’s Day with these reference pages and printables. Includes reference pages from our sister site, Infoplease.- History of Father's Day
- Timeline of Father's Day History
- Father's Day Took Decades to Become a National Holiday
