Father’s Day Gift Guide
2020; the year of the lockdown. No matter what age, we will all remember this year forevermore. So with this year’s Father’s Day landing during an (easing) lockdown, we’ve sourced the most stay-at-home related and socially distant items to give the men in our lives, who may well still be at home. We’ve done away with the extravagant and gone for fun, quirky and unusual, and in some cases there’s a very fine line between big and little kid toys, which we think is perfect at this time.
Wishing you all continue to stay safe and happy during these uncertain times, happy Father’s Day.
Luxury Hot Chocolate Gift Box – WIN!
£24.00 – www.whittard.co.uk
Our luxury and comforting offering this year is this gorgeous hot chocolate gift box from Whittard, illustrating the true meaning of luxury. There’s two 350g tubs of chocolate powder; one full of milk chocolate and the other white, along with a generous jar of mini marshmallows.
Drop a couple of teaspoons of the powder into hot milky water, (whisk it for a full on luxury) for a perfect silky smooth cup of hot chocolate, add a handful of marshmallows and perhaps top it off with a sprinkling of milk chocolate powder, or grated chocolate for a lovely night in with Netflix & popcorn with the family.
And in true Whittard style, the gift box is a gift in itself; beautifully presented with a cute ribbon.
And if you’re looking for something a little different, you can choose other flavours from Rhubarb & Custard, and Raspberry Ripple to the mouth watering Salted Caramel.
Sugru Rebel Tech Kit – WIN!
£11.99 sugru.com
Are you the chuck-it-and-buy-new, or repair-it type? One thing lockdown has taught us is to make and repair, and Sugru can help us go sustainable in so many ways. There’s a few kits to choose from but for Dad’s we particularly love this Rebel Tech Kit, for both fixing damaged leads, and for customising or even creating your own awesome accessories.
The kit comes in a useful tin with easy step-by-step instructions, and inspiration on ways to fix, hack and improve the gadgets we love. It shows examples of such things like making a customised game controller and a very cool homemade camera, it’ll show your man waste-saving fixes, shrewd tech improvements and some rocking new ideas. Your leads will last for years more with this little gem.
Personalised Wallet – WIN
£24.99 from GiftsOnline4U.com
This is just so cute, a personalised faux leather wallet gift in black with space to add your own image.
The little ones will love to be involved in this, they can create a masterpiece of their Dad (ideally on smooth white paper with a felt tip pen), or you could borrow a cherished drawing off the fridge, scan it (on high resolution) and upload to giftsonline4u for them to print it directly onto the wallet, making a truly unique and magical present for a proud Dads and Grandads everywhere. A wonderful keepsake to make him smile each time he flashes his cash.
The wallet has seven card slots, a driver’s license/photo ID clear compartment, a coin compartment and a note compartment including an enclosed zipped pocket. And we’re thrilled to be able to have one as a prize giveaway.
Polaroid Play 3D Pen Bundle – WIN!
£30 from menkind.co.uk
Do you have a crafty or artistic Dad to cater for? We suspect this could be one of those hide-from-the-kids gadgets because it’s aimed at 14 years older, and it’s definitely one of those cool big-kid toys. There’s endless possibilities here, from building sculptures or model cars, chess pieces or animals, there’s just no end to the creativity. Perfect for lockdown!
You can create your own freehand 3D models, even by drawing in the air! You can use a Play Trace App from Polaroid which enables you to stencil and bring photographs to life. Or you can trace imported templates to assemble in parts.
There’s so much to do and it’s just so clever that your man will be kept amused for hours…
Ted Baker washbag with goodies
£18 from Boots.co.uk
For the smellies offering, Ted Baker always has some fabulous gift ideas and the Ted smells are always delicious and masculine. This is the bestselling Graphite Black Body Spray and Hair & Body wash that comes in a lovely navy washbag. Brilliant for when the gyms reopen. We like this from Boots as you can still order online, and there’s a lovely range to choose from too.
Rainbows of Hope Mug
£9.99 – amazon.co.uk
As an everlasting reminder, you could choose a gift that shows support and solidarity for the NHS. Amazon Handmade has launched its Rainbows of Hope storefront working with NHS Charities Together and local Makers from across the UK. The new storefront features rainbow designed products created by five UK small business owners from the Amazon Handmade network, these mugs that we chose are from KIO Cards. The designs are perfect for Father’s Day, from sending a socially distant hug in a mug, or recognising the key workers in our lives.
Amazon Handmade are donating its referral fee from each product sold from the range to NHS Charities Together – supporting NHS staff, volunteers and patients during the Covid-19 pandemic as well as in the aftermath.
Stabilo Woody 3 in 1 Pencils
£11.77 from stabilo.co.uk
Okay, yes we know this is technically aimed at the youngsters, but this is such a great gift to do with Dad. They’re not normal wax crayons, they work on white, black or coloured paper as well as glass! So you can draw on windows, and simply wipe off with a wet cloth. It can also be used as a watercolour, helping you to create some artistic masterpieces with these fabulous little pencils.
They come in 18 colours and are available from Stabilo starting from £14.47 but STABILO is offering 20% off their online shop on all products right now! So they are £11.77
Win a Father’s Day Gift Guide Bundle!
One winner will receive a bundle of gifts of those marked “WIN!” above.
A second winner will be sent the personalised wallet direct from GiftsOnline4U complete with their child’s masterpiece.
Enter below and good luck to you.
Gardening and baking. we love PE with joe too,
Our favourite family activity during lockdown has been our daily walk we’ve explored every public footpath in and around our village and discovered so many new things and looked up history of any interesting buildings or sights we’ve enjoyed
We’ve explored lots of walking spots!
We’ve rediscovered board games!
Re-creating a seaside atmosphere in the garden as we had to forfeit our holiday like everyone else, paddling pool, towels, signs, snacks and mock tails great fun
Going for walks and doing family movie nights
Playing family board games and baking.
Gardening
Tea and biscuits in the garden every day if the weather permits. We live in an overcrowded house & our youngest has severe learning difficulties & a host of health problems so we have been shielding him. Something as simple as tea and biscuits together has kept us all grounded
Playing lots of board games together
If the weather is nice, then the paddling pool is out, and maybe we can do some gardening. If not, then we try and do something like colouring or baking.
We rescued a puppy just before lockdown so we’ve been doing lots of walking and training
Watching all the marvel films as. Family
Growing vegetables & herbs!
We have just started long term fostering an 8 year old lad, so lock down has given us some lovely bonding time! Lots of painting, long walks taking photos of nature then making collages with them etc
We’ve really enjoyed planting and gardening
we like having a dance off! great fun and good exercise too
Gardening painting and drawing and yoga
PE with Joe on YouTube has been great, but I’ve ached after some of the workouts – all good for me though.
Cooking Gardening and family games
The kids have really enjoyed planting seeds and watching them grow keeping a diary of how they have changed
Walking for all of us
teaching our son all the dance moves to 80’s/90’s dances…
We have been crafting nearly every other day, making lots of things out of “junk”. My 5 year old loves it the most, we have a whole stash of random things we have made haha.
We have transformed our garden into a little allotment with lots of lovely fresh fruit & veg growing. On wet days we have been doing jigsaws and baking
The best activity we’ve found is grow our own vegetables – lots of fun and rewarding.
Board games. Can be such fun when played with as a family.
We bought Disney+ and we’ve been working our way through all the Avengers movies as a family. Movie nights together have been great.
We love doing science experiments together. Finally using all the kits we’ve accumulated!
It is the great sunflower growing race for us!
We have done a lot of baking, some with success, some not so good, family memories though
We have enjoyed doing jigsaw puzzles and playing board games.
Playing in the garden has been the best activity as not only does it get us out of the house there has been alot of different activities to do there that we didn’t really utilise before (gardening, ball games, paddling pool etc) and took it for granted.
Park walks have been our favourite thing to do, just getting outside in the fresh air x
Staying fit together as a family as been fun. A bit of yoga and family bikes rides. Also baking and doing our own little bake offs!
We have been doing a lot of jigsaws together and making use of whatever time we were allowed outside.
Gardening and board games!
I think it has to be what I’ve come up with for this Thursday! We are celebrating – wait for it – my son’s half birthday! Yep, he’s going to be the big 6.5. The poor kid has 2 high risk parents and no garden, yet he’s been an angel. He deserves a treat so he’s getting a little present, a party, Mommy and Daddy are both taking the day off working (from home) and we’re going to play games all day 🙂
Paint by numbers and Wasgij!
We have played every board game in the house
We have been very busy in the garden – sowing, planting and weeding too. Now we are reaping the rewards and picking some of the produce we grew! It has been so good for us all/.
Spending time together in the garden. Planting, painting and general maintenance.
Playing board games, no serious arguments yet
you can’t beat a lovely walk, we get time to talk to each other without the interuptions of technology and it;s lovely being surrounded by nature.
playing board games and baking
Enjoying long walks on little used farm tracks and lanes around our village and watching how things change from day to day and after time.
Just being together has been wonderful, but luckily, my two have been decorating with me !
Going for long walks
Going for walks and seeing the gorgeous wildlife xx
Playing Board Games xx
Our favourite lockdown activity as a family has definitely been board games! The current top pick is Cheeky Monkeys
Going for long walks with the dog x
When the weather is nice we have been out for some lovely walks together. At home we have been playing lots of board games like Uno,Frustration and cards.
We’ve been playing alot of board and card games! Throw throw buritto is a massive hit!
It’s definitely been finding new places to go for walks, we had never been keen walkers before.
Baking and cooking
Walks by the river
Going for walks and exploring parts of the local area we hadn’t been to before.
Growing vegetables 🙂 it’s someone everyone can participate in and very satisfying (and educational!)
Garden tennis
We’ve been building things out or cardboard boxes. We’ve got a teddy hotel, a car and a box fort. Slowly running out of room though!
Had a great time gardening and growing our own food.
Gardening. It’s never look so neat and tidy and it’s been nice to get outside and enjoy the sun.
A trip to the coast!!
We have been playing lots more games and bonding more as a family
Gardening!!! With the 4 of us helping we are finding we are getting a lot more done and the children are actually enjoying getting their hands dirty and have become more interested in what is growing in the garden
Long walks in all weathers has been fun.
Walking along the coastline every evening
Long walks and wildlife spotting in the local wood
Playing out in the garden when the weather is nice and cooking when it’s not so nice.
Go for walks
enjoy family meals together
Gardening – we’ve all really got into it! And my 5 year old enjoys weeding….score!
We have found the best activity to be our baking afternoons. It’s great fun and the kids absolutely love it we have made lots of different fruit breads and jam roly poly minis – we are baking some yummy bakewell tarts tomorrow so we are really looking forward to it.
We’ve been trying to meal plan and cook meals together, so it’s more of a team effort!
Trips to feed ducks / explore nature
We have been enjoying the sun and teaching our dog to swim in the pool
Foraging and then cooking, the best wild mushroom and wild garlic risotto ever
We have been spending time in the garden together
Lots of baking and cooking
Feeding and watching the birds
Daily walks have been great. I hope they continue in some way.
we have been going for long walks.
It has to be just getting out! Every afternoon we get out either in the woods or go for a cycle, it helps clear our heads and have a break from work/school work
Playing Monopoly, the last game took up about 3 weeks of the lockdown
taking long walks in the woods
love this bundle!!
Me and my family have been making our own greeting cards. We have even made some Christmas cards!
Baking and doing jigsaws together.
Exercising whether it’s cycling, walking, running, we get fit and we get to spend time together
Getting in the kitchen and enjoying cooking and baking again.
The best activity during lockdown was doing a scavenger hunt in the garden. Lots of fun.
Gardening, its got us all involved
The best family activity during lockdown has been flying a kite
We’ve been enjoying baking cakes together
As a family, we have really enjoyed putting together these ‘Happy Birthday’ videos for wider family members we have been unable to see.
Lots of family walks, exploring local places we have not been to before.
My dad bought some astro turf and we have been indor camping on our bit of green countryside
We’ve enjoyed playing tennis on the spare land behind our garage. 2nd best activity was shopping online for new tennis balls to keep replacing those we lose into the neighbours gardens!
We have to say baking has been the best as you get to eat it afterwards
A good game of Dobble keeps our family entertained, It gets very competitive!
Walking. We go out every night after dinner. We play hide and seek, look for bugs and just admire the beautiful place we live in.
We had a board game night which ended up being very fun! Great to be off technology too!
Along with a lot og people I suspect, baking & cookery. We still have to eat and eveyone can lend a hand!
Gardening, we are all really enjoying it
watching movies 🙂
Arts and crafts.
Gardening together
Baking cakes with my son has gone down treat 🙂
We’ve been getting out in the garden,educating about nature
making ourselves look daft on Facebook Portal video chats with our grandson
We’ve been enjoying jigsaws, especially on the rainy days
Would love to win this for my dad
It’s great to bake together because you get to eat the results
I have a moody teenager who has hidden in his room for most of lockdown, so we’ve not done much in the way of family activities at all!. I did teach my other half how to play Othello, though, and that took up an entire, mostly pleasant evening. 🙂
walking
We’ve had art competitions together – drawing and painting, it’s been great fun.
Making Spring Summer wreaths for friends and family
taking the dog for long walks
Taking it in turns to set challenges for each other – we have had lots of fun!
Upcycling, my son has learnt so much and he’s so proud of his contributions to a project.
walking ,gardening ,baking cooking
We have found some amazing new walks to do as a family x
Cycling! We try to go out three times a week and it’s great fun
Gardening – we built a birdhouse and planted bee and butterfly friendly plants! We have also started to grow our own veg!
We’ve been gardening !! and transforming our garden ! We planted so many seeds that became plants so we’ve been recycling & reusing containers to plant flowers and vegetables ! We’ve all taken part & had so much family fun doing it! and the best is yet to come we have beans and peas and courgettes and sweetcorn tomatoes and carrots for example ! Time well spent !
Den making in the back garden
Baking and cooking
Ooh the best day out is definitely looking for painted rocks, the children have loved searching for them and even more so enjoyed painting them to leave for others to find. I like it because it gets them and us outside in the fresh air.
we love walking in the woods
We have been busy baking and going out for walks!
Baking & cooking. We have tried many new meals & different cupcakes xx
I would love the lovely mama scripted pendant necklace.
I love Roses for Mothers Day
Like to have a bee hotel for solitary bees ( I know it’s unusual) chocolates and some moisturiser would be nice 😉
The question asks what I would like for Mother’s day, it is a Father’s Day prize in case the question in the rafflecopter is wrong.
For Mothers Day I wanted and received pamper stuff, bath bombs perfume and Prosecco.
a trip out would be nice
We have enjoyed gardening and planting flowers.
To be able to meet up with family.
On Mothers Day I expect to spend time with my family. On Fathers Day I expect my children to spend time with their Dad or at least speak to them on the phone
We discovered the game Dobble and we all enjoyed playing it! Also just spending time as a family a not all rushing around has been the best!