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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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Fluffy Christmas Pudding
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A great little Christmas table decoration, a fluffy pompom Christmas pudding!
Christmas pudding is a steamed pudding, heavy with dried fruit and nuts, and usually made with suet, but in this case you'll be cooking up with a bundle of wool... interesting. It is very dark in appearance - effectively black - as a result of the dark sugars and black treacle in most recipes, and its long cooking time, but all you need for this pudding is some black or very dark brown wool and about 20 minutes.
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Traditionally, Christmas puddings were boiled in a pudding cloth, and they are often represented as round, a classic pudding shape which is just about perfect for this great looking, easy to make Christmas decoration. Don't forget the pud is traditionally topped off with a sprig of holly, you can make yours from felt, using beads or mini pompoms for the berries.
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Pompoms are easy to make and suitable for boys and girls who’ll love this sort of activity.
The pompom instructions and printable graphic templates are so simple to follow. They give amazing results and are available in either A4 or US Letter formats, just click on the size you need to download.
 
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Posted by recycleman555 - instead of glue gun glue i used pva glue and white felt its a lot easier
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Funky pompoms
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 Dadcando has some truly amazing funky pompom projects, and making a pompom couldn't be easier or more instantly rewarding. You don't even have to have wool, you can make a pompom from any lightweight plastic bag, bin-liner or sandwich bag.
This tiny little pompom was made from a transparent blue plastic sandwich bag. Perfect for making little pompom creatures to decorate the top of your pens and pencils.
All you need is a piece of cardboard, which you cut into two same sized rings.
You bundle up some wool into 2m lengths and thread them through the rings about 8 at a time (or a plastic bag).
Keep threading the wool through the ring until you can't fit any more through.
Push the tip of a pair of scissors into the wool and between the discs inside and cut round the rim.
Tie a few lengths of wool round the pompom bundle between the cardboard discs and then remove the discs by slipping them off the wool or cutting them.
 That's it. It couldn't be much simpler, but it is only the start. Both boys and girls love making pompoms and dadcando's projects have easy to follow instructions and the beautifully designed printed image patterns will make sure that your pompom looks fabulous as well as being something really wacky and memorable, and they’re all so quick and easy to do.
So, beg or borrow a ball of wool off someone to get you going, or visit your local fabric shop and buy a ball or two. There are some crazy wools out there, have a look at the wonderful pompom William designed in Your Models, using a fun multicoloured wool. I guarantee once you start making pompoms with your kids, they won't want to stop.
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