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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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Themed origami shirts
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So you want to be a tailor and make some of the most beautifully pressed shirts in Town? Well, this is the Japanese art of paper folding (origami) with a new twist.
Dadcando shirt making paper craft couldn't be simpler, you don’t need to buy any special paper, and you can download our high quality printables, and get going with this project right away. The easy to follow instructions show you how to fold up a shirt from a rectangular piece of office printer paper.
Fold up the shirts and then use them as very original greetings cards, that are guaranteed to make a great impression, and show someone that you really care.
There are loads of neat designs on this site, but if you fold up a plain piece of paper you can design your own shirt. If you do design your own, please send us a picture or scan of your design so that we can see how good you are, we’ll put the best up on dadcando for everyone to enjoy. Learn the folds, and then next time you’re really bored at work or school, you can always make a paper shirt from that fax from Accounts, or that Post-it Note from your teacher.
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