This is the heart-warming moment a doting father wore women's clothes - so his children don't feel left out during a Mother's Day party.

Chatchai Parnuthai, 32, turned up at the school in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, where sons Ozone, 5, and Imsome, 3, were waiting alone.

Fellow classmates were enjoying games with their mothers - a Thai tradition that takes place once a year where mums visit their children's school ahead of the country's Mother's Day celebrations yesterday

The lads faced an uncomfortable afternoon alone, with their mother having walked out three years ago and now living in Europe.

But their brave father Chatchai, a motorbike-loving mechanic, surprised them after he borrowed his own mother's pink floral blouse and pinned up his hair with a flower.

Touching footage captures the lads paying respect to their ''mother'' while he sits alongside all the other women.

Chatchai said: ''I'm a single dad so I just wanted to make sure that my two sons were happy. I was a bit embarrassed, but it meant that they could take part like their classmates.''

Fellow parent Kornpat Sukhom, 36, who also attended the event with her own children, said Chatchai was the ''best mum''.

She added: 'In Thailand if it’s Mother’s Day, every mum has to join in activities with their children at school.

''The children’s parents are divorced and the mother is now living in Europe. This is why he showed up to the school wearing a dress to take the place of her in the celebration. He wanted the children not to feel left out because their mother had left them.''