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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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Spooky Flowers
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Learn how to make pompoms from a plastic bag
It’s so simple and you don’t even need wool. Male your spooky flowers any colour you want, but for a really spooky finish why not make them out of a black refuse sack (bin liner).
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The stems are just made from a rolled up piece of printer paper, and are a modern version of papier mâché. Papier mâché uses glue and paper to make hard wood like structures. In this case the paper is rolled and glued using a coating of PVA (Elmer’s white glue) to give a hard durable stem when dry. The stem is then decorated with glue gun glue (hot melt) to give long delicate surface features. The whole lot is painted black or silver (ideally sprayed) so that the raised features can be painted in a gorgeous bright contrasting colour in dayglo fluorescent or glow in the dark paint.
When you glue this into the black plastic pompom head the end result is a beautiful table or window decoration perfect for a festival like Halloween. Having said that, make the pompom heads out of other colours of plastic bags and the flowers would be suitable for a whole range of other holiday celebration decoration. A perfect present for someone you love!
The instructions come in both A4 and US Letter size, all you have to do is click on the size you want to download it. These instructions also include a template sheet to help you make the pompom discs the right size.
 
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Make toys from junk
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You can make the most incredible toys using just about any old junk. Kids love things to be quick, so get busy with a glue gun with its instant, incredible sticking power and the ability to glue almost anything to anything. Suddenly an old detergent bottle has so many exciting possibilities.  Combine that with a can of quick drying spray paint and a permanent marker, and you don't have to be a rocket scientist to be, well, a rocket scientist, or an engineer, or a magician. The toys you can make from junk are amazing and the most fun to play with and you’ll find you can add engineer and magician to your growing list of titles. Simple, easy to follow downloadable instructions and graphic printer sheets will help you and
your kids make the most fantastic looking models. This canoe was made out of two shampoo bottles and really floats; great
All our downloads
are gorgeous, and the instructions
couldn't be easier to follow, with projects from the simplest to the most advanced, all explained in beautiful pictorial detail. The instructions are all original and like nothing else you'll find on the web. What’s more, we've made them all and had a lot of fun making them, so even before you start, you'll know it can be done. On dadcando you’ll find projects for every skill level, and my kids have play tested every model, so we know they work in the playability department as well.
In fact, it must be said, often they have more play value than expensive shop bought toys.. Don't worry if you don't have exactly the same junk as us, making things from junk is not an exact science; let your creativity and problem solving skills show through. When making from junk there are no rules. Start collecting empty packaging right now and within a week or two you'll have enough to build your first model from Junk.
Making stuff from junk is a great way to recycle your rubbish, and very soon, just like your children, when you see an empty ice cream carton, a wire coat hanger, or a used Tetrapak you won't see rubbish, you'll see a rocket port, a ship, or a dog kennel.
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