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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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Feather Quills
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Easy to make, real writing, Magical Feather Quills
If you want a quill like the one Harry Potter and his Professors of Magic use, now you don’t have to buy an owl, catch a hippogryph or sneak up on a phoenix, all you need is right here on dadcando. This project won’t take you much more than 20 or 30 minutes and you’ll be able to say (as they always do) that no creatures were harmed in the making of your quill (mythical or otherwise).
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Download, print out and follow these instructions which will show you how to make any of the quills. You will need one set of instructions and then one template printable for each quill you want to make. The instructions and all the template printables are available in both A4 and US Letter size downloads just click on the one you need to download it.
Feather quill instructions
 
Phoenix Feather Quill template printable
The Phoenix is a sacred firebird bird with beautiful gold and red plumage. It lives for 500 years but before it dies, it builds itself a nest of cinnamon twigs and sets fire to them so that both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix arises. The Phoenix is able to regenerate when hurt or wounded by a foe, thus being almost immortal and invincible. As you’ll probably already know, phoenix tears can heal wounds.
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What you write with your phoenix feather quill should be fiery and true, because you never know; your words might live on forever.
Snowy Owl Feather Quill printable template
The Snowy Owl, just like Harry’s Hedwig, (Bubo scandiacus) is a large owl of the owl family Strigidae. The adult male is virtually pure white, but females and young birds have some dark scalloping; the young are heavily barred, and dark spotting may even predominate. Its thick plumage, heavily-feathered feet, and coloration render the Snowy Owl well-adapted for life north of the Arctic Circle.
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The Snowy Owl is a particularly powerful and nomadic bird, used to flying long distance and settling in a range of habitats, hence it’s suitability for carrying post and messages for all types of magical folk.
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When writing with an Owl Feather Quill, your writing should be intelligent, honest and true, because an owl always knows where it is going.
Hippogryph Feather Quill printable template
When Mare and Griffin meet and mate
Their offspring share a curious fate.
One half is Horse with hooves and tail,
The rest is Eagle, claws and nail.
According to Thomas Bulfinch's Legends of Charlemagne, the Hippogryph is a strange beast indeed: Like a griffin, it has the head of an eagle, claws armed with talons, and wings covered with feathers, but the rest of its body is that of a horse. It is a very rare creature, as it is the product of the union between a griffin and a horse, and as everyone knows, the griffin regards horses as prey. The Hippogryph is able to fly as fast as lightening but is easier to tame than a griffin, making it suitable as both a steed and a pet.
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When writing with this quill, approach your text with respect, while you may scribble as fast as lightening, with a Hippogryph Feather Quill the pen truly is mightier than the sword.
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Posted by tuskel - Although I love the phoenix feather quill, printer ink is very expensive, so I decided to make a few Hedwig quills. :) So I used just white paper, and drew the feather on freehand. Originally, I made two of them, red and blue, but one got lost the very next day. I also tried to cut the little fluffy strands feathers have near the bottom, but paper isn't very durable, and being right where you would have to hold on, they have got quite crumpled.
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Posted by jokate - I made these for my sons Harry Potter Birthday party and put them in the pass-the -parcel. The kids loved them!
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Posted by yoyomax12 - Pheonix feather quill pen
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Posted by bayoubooks - We had a Hogwarts workshop on 7/24/09. This is one of our 'students' with her finished phoenix feather wand! Doesn't she look pleased with the result?
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Posted by sausages - I made these lovely quills for my little brother and sister for christmas, and they loved them! I would recomend that you make an ink pot too!!!
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Posted by miekz - I liked to make them, my little sister was very happy with them :).
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Posted by Gaddian - I did something a little different with mine. Out of cardboard I cut one piece in the shape of a feather, and after designing and painting it just how I wanted, I attached the pen and wire to the cardboard with some glue. I put the pen into a straw which was painted gold to match the rest of the feather, and it gave it some grip.
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Making stuff is fun!
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I have yet to meet a child (or in fact an adult) who didn't enjoy some form of creativity. Everyone is born with an innate desire to invent, create and make things, that's why humans have been so successful. Children are the most creative individuals you can ever hope to meet, with wonderfully flexible minds and amazing powers of imagination.
Children make stories and invent games and play for hours from the most basic starting points. If a piece of paper can be an areoplane, then a scrumpled piece of paper can be a crash-landed airplane. As their dad, you are in a unique position to help develop your children's creativity and problem solving abilities using the ever resourceful child in you.
Powerful stuff
when combined with the practical
skills you have learned and mastered as an adult. Dadcando.com has loads of exciting making and doing projects. For some you’ll only need five minutes, with others, whole afternoons will dissolve away. Some of the projects need only a piece of paper, while for others you will need some old packaging junk and some basic making equipment. Some projects are easy whereas others will help you and your children develop more advanced scratch building skills.
The Project instructions on dadcando are high quality, and whichever projects you download, you’ll find that all the Project Instructions have been carefully designed to be very clear, and for the most part very cheap to make because the bits you need to make the model cost nothing or are free bits of rubbish that you would normally throw away!
You’ll find that not only are all our projects completely original, but they are all designed to be fun and relevant to kids.
The projects have been designed with you in mind. Quick easy with really satifying results, so that even if time is short you can get the most out of the time you have together.
Making and doing with your kids is about giving your children the most valuable thing you can give them, your time. Our Making projects are about solving problems together and having something at the end to keep and play with. Anything you make with your children will be very special to them because you spent the time together making it and they have something to keep that they can be proud of.
Most of the instructions come with printer patterns to make sure that all the things you make look as good as possible. Print them out at A4 or US Letter size on an ink jet or laser printer. Depending on the speed of your connection, some of them may take a little longer to download (although none of them are much bigger than a megabyte, and most are much smaller). This is because we only want you to use downloads of the highest quality, so we think that the wait (if there is any) will be worth it.
Happy making!
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