The Men's Project:
Resources - "My Dad is the Bestest Dad"

To celebrate Father’s Day 2008, Trisha McQueen from The Men’s Project got her creative juices flowing and bought crayons to make stick drawings for a new storybook for dads and kids.

"My Dad is the Bestest Dad" is about how dads are seen as being the best at everything through the eyes of their children, and is a great story for fathers to read to their young children.

This document is available for free downloading in Portable Document Format (PDF) by clicking on the link below. To learn more about PDF files click here

My Dad is the Bestest Dad Story (PDF - 963KB)

Also available is a blank version of the story of which you can draw your own pictures

Blank version of My Dad is the Bestest Dad Story (PDF - 271KB)

Ideas for this version could include:

• reenacting the story lines by taking photos
• finger painting
• drawing your own pictures
• cut out faces from photos and stick onto the page

Both versions can be printed either single sided or double sided, here is how to print them double-sided so they can be made into a booklet:

1. Open up the pdf version you require
2. Click 'File'
3. Click 'Print'
4. A print box will appear
5. In the 'Print Range' section, click 'Pages from:'
6. In the 'Subset' section, highlight 'Odd pages only'
7. Click 'OK' to print
8. Put the page back into the printer to print on the blank sides, all printers are different so this is trial and error depending on which way your pages print.
9. Repeat steps 2, 3, 4 and 5
10. In the 'Subset' section, highlight 'Even pages only'
11. Click the 'Reverse pages' box
12. Click 'OK' to print