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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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Make a Shaun the Sheep
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Made from an old sock and a pompom, this Shaun the Sheep is just like one of Wallace and Gromit′s inventions
Ever since the cheese loving inventor and his dog were first shown on the BBC in 1989, Wallace and Gromit have been a favourite of children and adults alike. Shaun the Sheep first starred in the third Nick Park / Aardman Animations short film Academy Award winning film, ‘A Close Shave’ (in 1995), as the sheep who unwittingly fell in to Wallace’s Knit-O-Matic while trying to escape Preston, a ruthless, sheep rustling robotic dog. (You might be interested to know that Bob Baker, who co-wrote “A Close Shave” also co-created Doctor Who’s famous robot dog, K9.
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Since then, Shaun has gone on to star in his own TV series and because the kids loved it so much, we decided to take a fluffy pompom sheep and make it look like Shaun, using an old white sock and our trusty glue gun.
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It’s very easy to make and should only take you about 15 minutes to complete, once you have made the fluffy pompom sheep .
Take one old white sock, cut it up and glue it like this...
(make sure you ask the owner of the sock first)
Now make take one pompom sheep and follow these instructions to assemble your Shaun
 Take one fluffy pompom sheep (before you have stuck the legs on) and trim back the wool to make it look like Shaun. Take care to leave a tuft of wool over his head. But for the rest, you can trim away as much as you want... Shaun had a very close shave!
- Make the jumper body from an old sock, by cutting it down and gluing it with a glue gun as shown.
- BEFORE YOU GLUE HIS LEGS ON Push Shaun body inside the jumper body, making sure his hair tuft pokes out
- Thread the front legs into small knitted tubes which were made from the old cut up sock. Cut the tops at slight angles to match the curve of his body and glue gun in place making sure that they are vertical and that Shaun stands horizontally.
- The back legs do not have jumper arms and so can be glued straight on to the body. If you want, cut the sock back slightly and glue the legs directly onto the pompom.
- When the jumper is on colour in the stripes with felt tip pens or paint the wool with acrylic paint.
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Lovely little MicroBooks
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Sitting in the car on those long journeys back wards and forwards from mum’s to dad’s, going on that special weekend or second holiday with their dad, often kids of separated parents do a lot of traveling and have a lot to keep in their heads. So what better than a little pocket sized notebook to write and sketch down all those important thoughts. These fun little origami MicroBooks are a really simple project that anyone can tackle. They’re easy to fold up and really nice to fill in and keep. They’re perfect for kids because they don’t have loads and loads of pages that will never get written in, and they're small enough to fit in a pocket or a small bag. They've got to be the simplest form of origami on the web.
My kids showed me how to make a micro-book in about five minutes, it's so quick and easy.
The instructions and the lovely graphic printables are free to download.
So even if you only have a few minutes to spare, this is a perfect project to do.
There’s a couple of holiday diaries, perfect for keeping happy memories of a lovely time with dad. There are books for doodling, and writing, and even ones packed with interesting facts, enough to keep anyone busy.
There’s a special new MicroBook full of all the best wizard’s spells, charms, hexes and curses, just perfect for all those budding wizard Harry Potter fans. Click here to be magically transported to the spells MicroBook page.
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