Father's Day gifts from Children's Friend Magazine

Father’s Day Gifts By Alan W. Farrant Friend, Jun 1995, 26
Pencil Holder
To make this gift, you will need: an empty clear glass jar or soup can (make sure there are no sharp edges around the top), old magazines, scissors, clear-drying glue, a small dish, water, and several new pencils.
1. Remove the label, then wash and dry the jar or can.
2. Find words or pictures in old magazines that describe or remind you of your dad and cut them out. Glue the clippings on the jar or can until it is completely covered. Let dry.
3. Put some glue into a small dish, thin it with a little water, and mix. With your fingers, spread the glue mixture lightly over all the clippings and let dry.
4. Place the pencils in the holder, and your gift is ready!
Dandy-Sandy Picture
To make a picture, you will need: a pencil, medium sandpaper, crayons, a cookie sheet, and an oven (use with an adult’s help).
1. With the pencil, sketch a simple picture on the rough side of the sandpaper. You could also include the word “Dad,” but make sure that the letters are big enough to color.
2. Color the picture and letters (if included), pushing down hard with the crayon. Color until the sandpaper barely shows through. The more colors you use in your picture, the prettier it can be.
3. Place the sandpaper picture on a cookie sheet. Ask an older person to heat the oven to 250° F (120° C). When it is heated, place the cookie sheet on the center rack. Keep the oven door open and watch the crayon melt in a few seconds. Have the older person remove the cookie sheet, then let your picture cool.
Father’s Day Gifts by Shirlee Jackson Friend, Jun 1972, 29
Father’s Day Cards
You will need: dried seeds (pumpkin, squash, watermelon), glue, construction paper, scissors, scraps of ribbon, dried leaves, dried wild grass, dried weeds, scraps of wallpaper, wrapping paper, colored construction paper, pieces of ribbon, yarn, needle, and thread. Look at the illustrated suggestions on this page. Decide what you want to do and use the ideas given.
Cut the colored paper to make folded card. Write your message on the inside of card. Glue the items you will need on the front of the card. If you use dried leaves, weeds, or grass, you may need to sew them to the card with needle and thread.
Father’s Day Gifts By Corliss Clayton Friend, Jun 1991, 39
Snake at the Door
To make an energy-saving snake to put at the base of doors to keep drafts out, you will need: a clean long sock or leg from a pair of hose or tights, rags or fiber fill, needle, thread, two buttons, different colors of felt, and glue.
1. Stuff the sock tightly with the rags or fiber fill. Sew the end of the sock closed.
2. Sew the buttons onto the toe end for the eyes. Cut out the other decorations, such as the tongue, nose, eyebrows, from the felt to decorate your snake. Either sew on the decorations or attach them with glue.
Going Fishing
To make this game, you will need: a cardboard toilet-tissue or paper-towel roll, a 24″ (60 cm) string, a Popsicle stick, a 4″ x 3″ (10 cm x 7.5 cm) piece of lightweight cardboard, a curtain or key ring, a pocketknife, a paper punch, and marking pens.
1. Notch both sides of the stick 1/4″ (6 mm) from one end. Tie one end of the string tightly around the notches so that the string won’t slip.
2. Cut five 3/4″ (2 cm) rings from the cardboard roll. Decorate with the pens as desired.
3. Trace the pattern of the fish as shown onto the cardboard. Cut it out, including the hole in the center. Decorate it as desired. Punch a hole in the tail, where indicated; thread the other end of the string through the hole, then securely tie the string to the curtain or key ring.
4. Cut out the rules card below and give it to your father with the toy.
Rules
Hold the fish, key ring, and cardboard rings in one hand, and the stick in the other hand. Toss the cardboard rings into the air one at a time and try to hook each piece with the stick. After a piece is caught, let it slide down onto the string, and try hooking the next piece. When all five circles have been caught and are on the string, try to catch the fish.
Father’s Day Gifts Friend, Jun 1979, 5
Shower Caddy
To make a caddy to keep shower items handy, you’ll need plastic rope and three plastic detergent bottles of the same size.
Cut off the bottom 3″ of each bottle. Scallop the edge if you wish (see illustration). Make two holes in the sides of each bottle. Knot a piece of plastic rope and thread in and out of bottom bottle on one side. Leave about 5″ of space between bottles and make another knot; then thread through next bottle on one side. Repeat for last bottle (see illustration). With another piece of plastic rope, repeat threading process on other side of each bottle.
Knot both plastic ropes together about 5″ above top of top bottle. Make drain holes in bottom of each bottle. Loop caddy over shower head.
Back Massager
For a homemade back massager, you’ll need 12 wooden spools and a long piece of heavy cord.
Thread cord up one spool and down next (see illustration). When you have threaded through last spool, tie off a large loop of cord and then reverse direction of cord and thread down one spool and up next. Tie off at end, leaving another large loop.
To work massager, Dad slips his hand in one loop, throws massager across his back, and slips his other hand into other loop. By pulling loops back and forth, spools will roll across his back and ease tensed up back muscles.
“Father’s Day Gifts,” Friend, Jun 1982, 27
Super Patchwork Banner By June L. Jameson
You will need: burlap 6″ x 18″, scissors, five 2″ squares of cloth, pen, glue, 7″ dowel or straight twig, 12″ of yarn.
To make a colorful banner for your dad, draw block letters of word SUPER on cloth squares and cut out. Arrange letters vertically down center of burlap, starting 2″ from top. Leave 1″ between letters. Put glue on back of one letter at a time, and press it down in place.
When glue is dry, fringe edges of burlap by pulling off threads for 1/2″ on sides and bottom. Fold top back 1″ over stick and glue or tape down. Tie yarn to each end of stick, and Dad’s banner is ready to hang.
Photo Magnet By Dorothy L. Getchell
You will need: plastic pill bottle cap, small photograph, scissors, cellophane tape, glue, and small bar magnet.
Cut photograph to fit plastic pill bottle cap, cover with tape, and glue inside cap. Glue magnet on back and let dry.
Give Dad a Hand!
You will need: plaster of paris, bowl, water, foil pie pan, paintbrush, and acrylic or poster paint.
Mix plaster of paris with water until smooth and stiff. Pour into foil pie pan. Press your hand into plaster and keep it still until you feel plaster begin to set. Gently remove hand when you can take it away without taking plaster too. Scratch “To Dad With Love” and your name into plaster with wrong end of paintbrush. Let plaster dry completely then turn plaster paperweight out of pan and paint it.
Julie Wardell, “Father’s Day Gifts,” Friend, Jun 1984, 16
Nail Picture
You will need: variety of nails or tacks, pine board (painted or unpainted), pencil, hammer.
1. Use pencil to draw simple design on board. Decide where different types of nails or tacks will look best for your design.
2. Hammer in nails or tacks, following design.
Mousetrap Memo
You will need: one-half of small Styrofoam ball, felt, scissors, glue, toothpicks, mousetrap, small notepad, pencil, yarn.
1. Cut small squares of felt, and glue onto Styrofoam. Cut ears, teeth, eyes, and nose and glue onto felt, out of Styrofoam (see illustration). Insert toothpicks for whiskers.
2. Glue mouse head at top of mousetrap (see illustration).
3. Slip notepad under metal trap.
4. Tie one end of yarn to mousetrap and other end to pencil.
“Father’s Day Gift: Pocket Survival Kit,” Friend, Jun 1983, 27
You can make a survival kit for your father to take on hikes, on trips, or on other outdoor activities. Emergencies occur when least expected, and survival during these emergencies is difficult for even an experienced person. A properly prepared emergency kit could make a cold night in the snow tolerable or even save a life.
The first thing you will need is a waterproof container small enough to fit into a large pocket. Include these items in survival kit:
Bouillon cubes and energy bar
Whistle to alert searchers
Pencil and paper
Iodine tablets to purify water
Heavy aluminum foil, two sheets 12″ (30 cm.) square, to make drinking and cooking utensils
Heavy-test nylon fishline
List of items in kit, and dates to replace or inspect items
Matches waterproofed with a covering of wax or nail polish
Compass
Adhesive tape 1″ (2.5 cm.) wide in strips 12″ (30 cm.) long
Small pocketknife
Fishing lures, sinkers, flies, and hooks
Bendable wire 5′–10″ (1.5–3 m.) long
“Father’s Day Gift Ideas,” Friend, Jun 1977, 42
Woven “Leather” Desk Accessories
You will need: masking tape, brown or black paste shoe polish, shellac, and containers of various shapes.
Use the following method to cover all accessories: tear off triangles of masking tape and press them onto container in rows, points down. Start at its bottom and overlap rows. The ragged edges will help give rough effect. At top, trim edges evenly, or bring tape over top of container. After covering, apply shoe polish with a soft cloth. Coat with shellac or clear plastic spray.
1. Letter Holder
For a letter holder, use a rectangular cardboard box such as an empty one for hot chocolate. Cut box down to 3″ high, then cut out ends. Paint inside of holder. Cover with tape “leather.”
2. Desk Caddy
For caddy to hold paper clips or rubber bands, cover round tuna can, or similarly shaped container.
3. Standing Picture Frame
Remodel an old picture frame by removing glass and recovering frame. Replace glass and add a picture of you choice. For stand, cut 2″ x 6″ strip of heavyweight cardboard. Bend strip down 1″ from one end and glue small bent section to back of frame.
4. Desk Blotter
For base use a piece of 16″ x 21″ medium-weight cardboard. From another piece of cardboard, cut two 3″ x 16″ strips. Cover strips with “leather.” Glue strips to ends of base, leaving inside edges open for pockets. Insert ends of a piece of blotter paper into pockets.
5. Pencil Holder
A “leather-covered” 12-ounce can such as a container for frozen orange juice makes a useful pencil holder.
6. Glue Prints
You will need: corrugated cardboard, white glue, tempera paint, cookie sheet, brayer (small paint roller), and any type of absorbent paper.
1. On piece of cardboard, draw picture with glue, squeezing lightly as you draw. Let dry until lines are set.
2. Pour tempera paint onto cookie sheet and smooth out. Move brayer back and forth in color until it is evenly covered with paint.
3. Now apply brayer to raised glue drawing surface, moving back and forth until all lines of drawing are well covered. Try not to let too much color touch spaces between lines.
4. In printing from raised surface, use some sort of absorbent paper such as rice paper, newsprint, or some kinds of paper towels. Nonabsorbent paper will not be as colorful.
5. Smooth paper on top of glue drawing, press carefully, and lift off.

Robert Wilson Glenn

I found a website http://www.rootcellar.us/glennrw1.htm that had a 10 page story about Robert Wilson Glenn and his family. It seems that this family had some interesting facts and contradictions in their lives. Although part of his family was strong abolitionists, other parts of his family were slave owners. The abolitionist side of the family included Robert’s brother-in-law, Rev. John Blackwell, who, with his wife, raised her younger siblings along with their own 10 children after Robert’s parents died. Another of Robert’s sisters, Agnes, also married a Minister, Joseph Royal. Even though both these preachers were very outspoken against the institution of slavery as being morally wrong, there were others in the family that were slave owners. That section of the family came from what was usually called the small planter class; they had a valuable, though not extremely large, plantation.

Also, there seemed to be differences in the family’s vocations. While part of the family was in the planter class, Robert’s oldest brother, Squire, became a blacksmith. In startling contrast to the rest of the family was the career of Robert's second oldest brother, Tyre Glenn (1800-1875). He engaged in every conceivable kind of business ... land speculation, slave trading, merchandising, whiskey making, iron mongering ... anything that would make money. He also owned the Glenn Ferry, which operated on the Yadkin River.

The family seemed to be quite effected by the wars of their times. In the Regulator's War (1767), a pre-revolutionary rebellion in North Carolina against the crown, "Tirey Klann" (Tyree Glenn), Robert Wilson Glenn’s grandfather, was arrested and forced to give an oath of allegiance in Salem, NC. His uncle, Austin Glenn, became a minister and was hanged by the Confederate Vigilantes in March 1863 in Hunt County, Texas, for being a Union sympathizer. Three of Austin’s sons served in the Union Army. One son, Joseph, was a scout killed at Little Rock. Another served in the Confederate Army as a physician. He had been conscripted, or forced, into service, but served honorably. Robert’s maternal grandfather and great-father were both killed during the Revolutionary War period, perhaps by British soldiers.
Robert himself served in the Mexican war being wounded in the conflict.

The story of Robert’s conversion into the Church is also not the typical story. After the Mexican war, Robert went into the business of hauling freight on the Santa Fe Trail. On one of his trips to Spanish Fork, one of his drivers got into a fight and was stabbed. Being a pretty good lawyer, Robert brought his driver to Salt Lake to defend him. Here, while camped on the old Tithing House block, a stranger came up and started a conversation with Robert that included religion. The stranger was Parley P. Pratt and the next morning Robert was baptized. He was faithful to the church and his callings until his death in 1873 of pneumonia.

Another interesting site I found was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenwood,_Utah which told of how a small town in northern Utah, was named after him.