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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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Spooky Flowers
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Learn how to make pompoms from a plastic bag
It’s so simple and you don’t even need wool. Male your spooky flowers any colour you want, but for a really spooky finish why not make them out of a black refuse sack (bin liner).
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The stems are just made from a rolled up piece of printer paper, and are a modern version of papier mâché. Papier mâché uses glue and paper to make hard wood like structures. In this case the paper is rolled and glued using a coating of PVA (Elmer’s white glue) to give a hard durable stem when dry. The stem is then decorated with glue gun glue (hot melt) to give long delicate surface features. The whole lot is painted black or silver (ideally sprayed) so that the raised features can be painted in a gorgeous bright contrasting colour in dayglo fluorescent or glow in the dark paint.
When you glue this into the black plastic pompom head the end result is a beautiful table or window decoration perfect for a festival like Halloween. Having said that, make the pompom heads out of other colours of plastic bags and the flowers would be suitable for a whole range of other holiday celebration decoration. A perfect present for someone you love!
The instructions come in both A4 and US Letter size, all you have to do is click on the size you want to download it. These instructions also include a template sheet to help you make the pompom discs the right size.
 
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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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