Father's Day doesn't need to be all about expensive gifts or big days out. In fact, your kids can spoil dad rotten just by doing a few simple things at home. Try these:

• You don't need to stop off at the card shop before Sunday. Provide your children with plenty of craft materials, such as old magazines, card, paper, pens, stickers, strips of fabric, glitter, glue – anything with which they can make and decorate their own Father's Day card. It's a far more personal way to let Dad know how much he means to them, and it's much more fun too!
• For a simple but lovely gift, you can buy plain white mugs, T-shirts or baseball caps on which your children could paint Father's Day messages.
• Help your children make their dad a scrapbook full of his favourite things – photos, old ticket stubs from past days out, newspaper articles, pictures of places you've been together. Or why not get them to make a memory box by decorating an old shoe box with pictures?
• Get your mini-Jamie Olivers cooking up a storm for Father's Day by picking Dad's favourite recipe and preparing him a delicious and healthy home-cooked meal. Involve the kids in each step of the meal, from shopping for ingredients to preparing, cooking, and serving the meal. They can even set the table up and decorate it with place mats and napkins.
• Most children enjoy taking to the stage, so get your kids to work on a little performance to celebrate Father's Day. It could be making up a song, a poem, a play, or a talent show – just let Dad put his feet up and enjoy the action.
• Get Dad to draw up a list of wishes, such as "I wish you would share more with your brother and sister", or "I wish you would tidy up your toys when you have finished playing with them". Put each wish in a special wish box and ask Dad to pick a wish for each child to grant.