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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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Wizardry and Magic
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Harry Potter is all done. Of course there are rumours of an eighth book and the fact that we still have two films to go (as the last film will be split into two). It's going to be a long summer, but November will come round soon enough and the bitter sweet joy of seeing another HP film will be tempered by the fact that there is definitely only one more after that. Nevertheless, while you wait, there’s always more than enough magic in the air for you to recreate events at Hogwarts, the Burrow or the Ministry of Magic, by making your own models of Hogwarts wizarding paraphernalia.
Homemade wizard’s wands, Golden Snitches, or beautiful writing quills and loads of other Potteresk things are all here, ready for you to download on dadcando.
 Even if you’re just a muggle and have had enough of Harry Potter, there are plenty of other magical fantasy stories to keep you interested in the Magical Art of Making. All the Chronicles of Narnia are all being turned into films, as are the stories of Lyra in the books of His Dark Materials trilogy. Whenever we see interesting things in these films and stories, we will bring you them as best magical fantasy craft projects, so that you can turn your hand to making magic, and conjuring up some really cool stuff to amaze your friends.
 Now you can make your very own Victorian Domed glass display case, from a 2 litre soda bottle, to display all your favourite projects and artifacts really beautifully. With our simple instructions, the results of just an afternoon's making will be really cool, good enough to be film props in fact, and better than anything you can buy, because you made it yourself.
Or why not make a beautiful writing quill from either a hippogryph, phoenix or snowy owl feather . And because no quill would be complete without its own ink pot, there are also some easy to follow instructions and printables, for making the most fantastical, magical Ink-pots.
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