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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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Dragon Egg
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Make a rare and fabulous Dragon’s Egg
 f course you’ll know that Hagrid kept an immature Norwegian Ridgeback dragon, called Norbert, in his hut for a while after hatching him, despite the fact that dragon breeding was outlawed by the Warlock's Convention of 1709. As a result, eventually, Hagrid was found out and had to give Norbert to Charlie Weasley, who worked with dragons in Romania, after he left Hogwarts. Dragon eggs are classified as Class A, Non-Tradeable Material by the Ministry of Magic. However, despite the ban, lots of dragon eggs still find their way onto the black market. Chinese Fireball egg shells are highly prized as potion ingredients.
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Now you don’t have to steal a dragon’s egg, nor do you have to buy it on the black market, because you can make your very own homemade dragon’s egg, using the traditional art of egg blowing, a small amount of glue gun glue and a little bit of paint. It’s really easy to get the most amazing effects.
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Of course, once you have made your Dragon’s Egg, it’s likely that you’ll also be needing a carefully crafted Egg Stand upon which to display your precious egg. Nothing could be simpler, dadcando’s original and authentic Egg Stand is the project you’re looking for. and then of course you'll be wanting a lovely Antique Mailing Box, keep your Dragon’s Egg safely in. The Antique Mailing Box project has all the instructions, templates and a great printable so that you can make a truly authentic looking box in no time at all.
The download comes in both US Letter size and A4. This download gives you simple pictorial instructions on how to make the Dragion's Egg.
 
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Posted by callmekelly - I made some for my son's dinosaur party and put them in with the volcano my husband made. I just used Easter eggs and a matte finish paint. Everyone thought they were great.
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Posted by ravenswing36 - Here's a pick of one of my favorite eggs i did. the 'nest' is actually a glass bowl spray painted inside with black and the outside with 24k gold spray paint. I used recycled paper that went through a shredder as the nesting material.
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Posted by ravenswing36 - Instead of real eggs I used Plastic eggs that I picked up in 4 different sizes of easter eggs. I took tissue paper and layed many layers across the eggs, just letting them rest as they wanted too. after getting it to the way I wanted, i took yarn and soaked it in the glue water mixture and layed it the way it looked right to me. Next came the painting and sealing. Alot of folks loved this since they look so fragial but when I toss and egg in the air and let it hit the ground, they are sold and want a dragon egg of their own! thanks for giving this idea!
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Posted by OmnivoreNZ - Simple drangon's egg. Cover cut from wine glass. Set on purple sand, on top of hard disk platter. Wife and daughter's versions in background.
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Posted by samule - here is the eg in a stand which is mad out of a toilet role tube and painted like the egg
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Posted by samule - here is the egg i made with my son he says there is a green dragon inside
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Posted by hedgehoggy - It worked out pretty well - this was the best one we made, with some nice mottled effects with the spray paint. Too bad you can't make out the gold highlights!
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Posted by arguingman - I keep this little egg in a display case I found in the Container store, but now I'm going to try my hand at the bell jar project. . .
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Posted by dragonboy10 - This was my very first project from this website.
Since then I have made many more dadcando projects!
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Posted by mustang2044 - Xtra large styrofoam egg from craft store covered in a layer of wood putty. Let dry for a day sand lightly then hot glue gun and painting. I'm happy with result.
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Posted by blazonsa - My two sons and I each decorated a dragon egg and you can see the three different results. Next we are going to make some larger out of paper mache around a balloon.
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Posted by demodemo - My white and gold eggs. I have made quite a few now
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Posted by jedififer - A little blurry but I have more. Used purple stained glass spray paint and a tooth brush to get the gold specks. The egg stand is painted gray with gold glitter. Will have better pics of the stand with the stand turtorial.
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Posted by spacelioncomrade - I love drawing veins on objects. I just wish that the picture turned out better.
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Posted by Christy173 - I'll be letting kids decorate some dragon eggs at my local Renaissance Faire this year. I'm also making some nice ones to sell, using paper mache' eggs. They're very inexpensive!
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Posted by svhsmail - Giant dragon's eggs!
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Posted by chris - I always wanted to do a egg blowing project, so that I could paint the egg, like I remembered doing as a kid, only when I cam to do it painting the egg was really difficult. Perhaps I remembered wrong, anyhow, this project is much simpler and the effect is amazing, this egg and the red and gold ones I made look like the real thing and they were so easy to make.
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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 three films to go (as the last film will be split into two). But for now we’ll have to contend with waiting for the sixth film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince which has unfortunately had its release put back to mid 2009. Nevertheless, in the meantime, 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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