Father’s Day Cup & Penny Coaster Gift

Busy, busy here finishing up Father’s Day gifts with my child care group. We made each of the dads a coaster with a cup filled with snacks. Here’s the one Brett made:

Dollar Tree cup, penny coaster, tag, cup wrap and flavored pretzels.

Father’s Day Cup & Penny Coaster Gift

To make the coasters, we started out with tin coasters from the Target dollar spot. There were 4 in a pack for $3. I figured we could do something with them…but they would have to be covered or painted since this is how they looked originally . That’s not going to work for preschoolers!

We glued a black cardstock circle over the lettering, glittered them and used the glue gun to glue on pennies.

Then I poured Envirotex  over them. It’s high gloss finish that hardens.  It takes 4-7 hours to dry and 72 hours to cure so by overnight they were pretty drying for wrapping up.

I liked the shape of these coasters but I think the same thing could be accomplished with jar lids. I think they would make great coasters sealed with Envirotex!

Some of the finished coasters:

The cup is filed with two kinds of pretzels: cinnamon sugar & ranch.  They are soo yummy!

Each child decorated a “cup sleeve” to personalize their cups.

I hope these go over big with the dads!

Envirotex can be found at Michael’s or online at Amazon. Super easy to use with impressive results!

Happy Father’s Day!