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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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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 two films to go (as the last film will be split into two). It's going to be a long summer, but November will come round soon enough and the bitter sweet joy of seeing another HP film will be tempered by the fact that there is definitely only one more after that. Nevertheless, while you wait, 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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