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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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Foamboard
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A fabulous material for making structural models very quickly, it's lightweight and it bends and cuts beautifully
Also called Poly-Board or Foamcore, Foamboard is a wonderful lightweight but rigid cardboard 3mm to 5mm thick made from sandwiching a layer of Styrofoam between two sheets of high quality faced thin card. It’s so easy to cut and fold to give nice clean professional looking bends (see explanation below).
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The glue gun works a treat on it so using the glue gun and some Foamboard you can quickly knock together some impressive models. The TARDIS (Advanced Models) is made from Foam Board.
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Foamboard is interesting from a kid’s point of view, because it is lightweight, yet stiff. It is a very rewarding material to use, because the finished models look and are robust and the excellent surface will take a range of paint finishes from markers to emulsion to spray paint. Great for creating something special for homework or to take into school.
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The most useful board to go for is probably 5mm thick, A2 size, as this size will cover you for mostly every project.
To bend Foamboard, cut a vee shaped groove in one side being careful not to cut all the way through and fold. If you want a really strong fold, run a line of glue gun glue along the bottom of the vee shaped groove before bending into shape.
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Ofcourse you shouldn't write off other types of board. We are bombarded with packaging these days and they are generally made of a wide range of engineering quality materials. The sides of plastic washing power bottles are thin sheets of polyethylene (PE) or polypropylene (PP). Fruit juice cartons are usually waxed or PE coated and foil lined (cut one open and look inside) medium weight card. These materials look great when used on a model. For flexible sheets (small) try cutting open a old tooth past tube. Many toothpaste tubes as multilayer barrier plastics with a foil lining; magic stuff for putting the finishing touches to a range of great models.
Different types of cardboard easily available
- thin, lightweight card from breakfast cereal packaging or craft shop, useful for small models and surface finishing touches. Bends and cut easily with scissors.
Thick pulp board, the sort you find on the back of a sketching pad. Good strength, poor at bending and difficult to cut. You will need a craft knife and will need to be very careful when cutting.
Corrugated or fluted packing board. Readily available at your local supermarket, where they throw away tonnes of cardboard boxes. Can be strong, good bend one way (along the flutes), reasonably easy to cut using knife or strong scissors. Glues well with glue gun.
Medium thickness foamboard. Reasonably expensive at about £3 (do proper web search for cheapest and buy on line). Needs sharp knives for cutting but cuts and folds very nicely. Glue gun works well on foamboard. Difficult to get radius bends.
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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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