Every year my dad conducts a GPS Easter egg hunt. Each family member receives a piece of paper with the coordinates to their stashes of chocolate.

When I was young my sister and I each had an egregious collection of these stuffed cats. Sometimes when we'd get a new one for our birthday/Christmas my dad would take them out of their original packaging and wrap each leg, tail, ear, etc, of the cat separately so the wrapped cat is in the exact shape of the cat. He did that for other presents too, but those were the most memorable.

Installed an "awooga" horn in his Jeep Wrangler, and would use it to embarrass me when picking me up or dropping me off at school. I later inherited the Jeep and loved the shit out of that horn.

He has a childhood teddy bear named "Fluffy Muffy" that sits on a prominent shelf in our house. One day he finely crafted a miniature fly fishing rod for him. The reel works and everything.

He made me earrings and a necklace pendant out of an old motherboard for my 19th or so birthday before I had even seen any circuitry jewelry around. Pretty badass!