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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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Space Flowers
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Half pompoms, the simplest and quickest introduction to pompoms make great space flowers
Any old bits of wool? Use them up like this. This really has to be the easiest pompom ever, and that's becuase it is a half pompom. Because of this, even small children can easily make one of these. No pompom ring is needed, all you have to do is wrap the wool round a piece of card, and You don’t need much to make a Space Flower.
You don't even need wool!
You could try plastic carrier (grocery)bags or sandwich bags, plastic bin-liners or even string to make the pompom flower heads. Have a look at the Spooky Flowers project to see what a plastic bag pompom can look like (although that project uses a whole, traditionally made pompom). Once you have made the flower heads, all you'll need is an old bottle cap and a piece of wire coat hanger and you can make a flower in about five minutes. Make a whole bunch with all differnt colours, they make great ornaments and lovely gifts.
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Cut the coat hanger into a long piece and bend it straight so that you can choose a range of different lengths for your flowers.
 
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Fabulous paper planes
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For most kids (boys and girls) paper folding (origami) starts with making a paper airplane. Folded out of any rectangular piece of paper (including paper money for those rich kids on the block) the paper plane is a fantastic thing.  It's so simple, a paper airplane will only take a minute to fold up, and yet it really does something when you've made it. Like riding a bike, you never really forget how to make a paper plane, but in case you have forgotten, or would like to try some new paper plane designs, you'll find the clearest instructions on dadcando, ready for you to teach a whole new generation of kids the pleasure of areo-engineering and flight dynamics from a simple sheet of paper.
Use the awesome dadcando downloadable printables to make the coolest paper airplanes on the planet, see which design can fly the furthest, and if you have an idea for another colour pattern or even an alternative folding scheme, why not send it in to us and if it's good enough we'll put it up with the others, for everyone to enjoy. Click here to send us your plane designs.
Have a look at these fantastic new templates . . .
the RAF Tornado GR4 , the Tornado F-3 and now for the first time, Concorde . All my kids could say was... "Cool, they look like real planes!" Build them and fly them in 5 minutes. Why wait for the kids to come home, unlock the big kid in you, it’s the best kind of paper craft you’ve ever seen.
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