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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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Moody's Mad Eye
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Make your own magical eye
Mad Eye Moody is one of my favourite Harry Potter characters. Brusque but brutally honest, tough and resourceful, yet with a compassionate side, he is the wizarding world's best known cyborg as a result of his prosthetic magical eye, which can rotate 360 degrees and see through almost everything, including walls, doors, invisibility cloaks and the back of his own head. It spins round like crazy looking for the next potential danger, hence his nickname "Mad-Eye".
Of course this is me, not Moody himself. When I am wearing my mad eye, I do like to be called Mad Eye though, and I think that when you are wearing yours you should do the same.
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Now can make your very own Mad Eye exactly the same as the one I am wearing, and every bit as good, if not better than anything you can buy in the shops from a few simple bits and pieces of junk; all with instructions right here on dadcando. You don’t need much junk either, all you need is a table tennis ball, an old plastic bottle cap and a leather strap or some dark coloured fabric. You can use any type of good strong glue for this project, but I would recommend hot melt (glue Gun) or very rapid setting epoxy (two part) resin.
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For the Mad Eye pictured here, I used an old watch strap, which I extended using a piece of dark coloured fabric (actually cut from an old pair of trousers), but you could use an old leather belt or a handbag strap, or a piece of leather if you have any handy.
Wear your mad eye with pride at every possible opportunity. This is a picture of me wearing it to do an impression of Hugh Laurie acting as House in the US drama of the same name. Do I look like him or what? With that eye he would not only be as mad as he usually is, he would be a one man radiology department!
Mad Eye Moody’s mad eye instructions are available in both A4 and US Letter format and can be easily downloaded by just clicking on size you want to download.
 
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Posted by Maddad - This one glows in the dark.
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Posted by luppie05 - I made these eyes from fimo clay. I think they turned out so great that i already posted a picture (while there not yet finished!)
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Posted by antigherkin - I made this Mad Eye Moody outfit for a Harry-Potter themed Brownie pack holiday - the wand and eye were made using dadcando tutorials.
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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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