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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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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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