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Cautionary Tales For Children
Wonderful witty poems great for reading to your children. The stories and rhymes will stay with them for the rest of their lives.
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Research has shown how important YOU are to your children and how as a dad the things you do, and keep on doing, really count, whether you live with them, or you are a single dad and are only able see them once a month, once a week or more, what you do really matters. This site is dedicated to all dads but will be of special relevance to the single dad. Remember, you are half the reason your children exist and they need you whether you live with them or not. As their dad, you have what it takes to make their lives successful and fulfilling no matter how often you see them. This site is about all the positive things that we as parents have to offer our children.
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Putting LEDs into your models
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They can really brighten up any model and make it look professional
 To add the finishing touches to an advanced model, nothing works better than a bit of light. LEDs (light emitting diodes) are brilliant for this. They are low power, low current drain (meaning that they last a long time on the same battery), they can be very bright and are small, so they can be put almost anywhere in a model or homemade toy. Also, they are very cheap.
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A very quick and easy way to introduce (LED) light to your model is to use the guts from a cheap key ring or pen light torch. You can use the torch exactly as is just puting the whole thing in the model and arranging it so the button is easily accessable, or pressed on by an extra bit of cardboard. And because those little pen torches only cost a few pence, you can put them in every model.
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If you have some thin wire, separate the LED from the switch battery assembly so that you can mount the LED anywhere on the model and have the battery and switch unobtrusively somewhere else. Break open the key-ring light housing and wrap one end of each of the thin wires round the LED legs and sticky taping the other end of the wires to the battery / switch assembly (taking care to make sure that the polarity is the same as it was before, because the LED will not work and may be damaged if connected the wrong way across a battery).
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On the web you will find a massive range of very cheap LEDs for sale by mail order. Choose the hyper bright flashing ones that have a built in resistor so that they can be wired straight to a 9V battery without the need for any other components. You can use solder if you have a soldering iron, but wrapping wire tightly round the LED legs and sticking with tape is just a good for a model, although a battery connector is useful for the battery end of the wires because the positive terminal of a PP3 9V very hard to wrap a wire round. The TARDIS, K9 and the Ghost Detector all have LEDs in them. If you have designed it, so that in your toy / model, the LED is only switched on while it is being played with, a 9V PP3 battery will last the lifetime of the model and can be sealed up inside the model, which saves the complication of having to build a removable panel to change the battery.
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Handmade envelopes
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Getting a letter in the post from a friend or someone you care about, is one of the nicest things. Now you can make someone's day by making your own lovely envelopes and sending one to them, using dadcando's simple envelope making instructions and printable templates.
There are a range of patterns to choose from and the envelope is designed so that the pattern is on the inside, making these envelopes beautifully subtle and suitable for lots of different occasions. Get well, thinking of you, thanks for the present, thanks for the dinner invite, good luck, I'm sure you get the picture.
They are so simple to make and they fit the range of dadcando origami shirts, so now you can make the card and the envelope!
If you would rather send a plain envelope or would like to design your own, there's a plain download that gives you the cut outs and the fold lines, all ready for you to be a subtle or as blatant as you like. 
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