Cool Stuff for Cool Dads ...

A collection of things to show your kids, teach to them or do for them.

Separate Pages - Balloons / Bikes & Cycling / Boomerangs / Bubbles / Kites / Magic

Card Stacking:

• Stacking the Deck : Secrets of the World's Master Card Architect by Bryan Berg & Thomas O'Donnell
  • Click Here for a website about the guy who wrote the above book

Drawing Cartoons

• Animation Lessons from Klasky Csupo (makers of Rugrats and others)
• Cartooning Made Easy - LearnFree.com
• Create a Creature - learn how to draw a new creature each week
• Drawing Tips From Radical Man
• "How is Absurd Notions made?" - a cartoonist shows how he creates his comic strip and puts it online

Frisbees / Disc Golf

• Flying Disc Hunter - Disc Sports Superstore
• Learn2 Throw a Flying Disk - Learn2.com
• Art Smart's Dart Mart and Juggling Emporium - carries a full line of Discraft, Innova and Lightning golf discs.
• How to build a course - from the PDGA
• Collection of stores that sell Disc Golf equipment

Games

• Streetplay.com - has discussions, remembrances, and rules for "The Games we used to Play", including Stickball, Stoopball, Capture the Flag, Kick the Can and many more.
• Fun-Attic - has game ideas of many types, including some Carnival Games.
• Games Kids Play - jump-rope rhiymes, ball games, chasing games and lots more

Hand Shadows

• Hand Shadows on the Wall - from Stage Hand Puppets
• More Hand Shadows
• Book from amazon.com - Fun With Hand Shadows (Dover Game and Puzzle Activity Books) by Frank Jacobs

Juggling

• How To Juggle - from Klutz
• Art Smart's Dart Mart and Juggling Emporium -Juggling Supplies
• World Juggling Federation

Model Airplanes

• Model Airplane News Magazine

Model Trains

• eHobbies Trains - Find trains from Athearn, Bachmann, Lionel, Atlas and LGB.
• Hobbytron.com
• Trains.com
• Classic Toy Trains Magazine
• Garden Railways Magazine
• Model Railroader Magazine
• eBay Auction Searches - HO Scale / N Scale / Z Scale
  • Athearn
  • Atlas - HO Scale / N Scale
  • Bachmann
  • Kato - HO Scale / N Scale
  • LGB
  • Lionel
  • Marklin
  • Walthers

Calendars.com	Magazine Subscriptions from uSubscribe.com
Colorado Narrow Gauge: 2005 Wall Calendar	Garden Railways As low as $4.66 per issue! Looking for a magazine that covers your passions for outdoor model railroading? Garden Railways celebrates the fun-filled and fascinating hobby of outdoor model railroading! Each issue comes packed with modeling ideas and instructionals, profiles of fellow enthusiasts and photography of the top models from across the country. Don?t let another day chug on by without picking up Garden Railways.	Classic Toy Trains As low as $4.44 per issue! Train enthusiasts and art & antique train collectors go crazy for Classic Toy Trains magazine. Every issue captures hobbyists and gamer?s imagination and sparks their enthusiasm for collecting and operating toy trains. From Lionel, American Flyer, Marx and more, colorful photo features and articles guide the reader through world class collections.

Models - Other

• FineScale Modeler Magazine
• Scale Auto Enthusiast Magazine

Origami

• Joseph Wu's Origami Page
• Paper Craft - from Yamaha - this is not traditional origami, but these paper models of animals and motorcycles are absolutely amazing

Calendars.com
Easy Origami: 2005 Daily Boxed Calendar	Origami: 2005 Daily Boxed Calendar	Origami: 2005 Weekly Engagement Calendar

Paper Airplanes

• Build the Best Paper Airplane in the World - by Michael O'Reilly
• Paper Airplanes website by world record holder Ken Blackburn
• Paper Airplane Flight Simulator - in Shockwave, by Workman Publishing ... very, very cool
• Roto-Copter - Paper Helicopter - from The Exploratorium
• The Sabertooth
• World Record Paper Airplanes Fliers' Club

Calendars.com
365 Tiny Paper Airplanes: 2005 Daily Boxed Calendar

Puppets

• Axtell Expressions, Inc. - High Quality People, Animal and Bird Puppets (and Veggie Tales puppets)
• Legends & Lore -
• Patterns for Finger Puppets and Origami Stick Puppets - from Stage Hand Puppets

Radio Control

• Hobbytron.com - Radio Control Boats, including Mini Rc Boats that are smaller than your hand
• rcmodels.com
• Radio Control Car Action
• RC Helicopter Net Resources - by Hobby Mart of Roseville, MN

Skating & Skateboards

• Inline:
  • Skating the Infobahn - collection of links including links for roller hockey, speedskating, skateparks and rinks, dance, and lots, lots more.
  • Cones & Wheels - how to slalom skate
• Speedskating:
  • Speedskating.com - inline (including downhill and Road & track), quad and ice skating
• GoSkate - huge list of skating rinks
• Shop.Skateboard.com is your best source for skateboard gear. Real-time inventory and same-day shipping GUARANTEED*!

Slot Cars:

• Hobbytron.com - Slot Cars
• eBay - Carrera / Scalextric

Stuff to Make Together

• Borax Crystal Snowflake - Grow a Snowflake in a Jar
• Make Snowmen from Soap - family.com
• Peanut Butter Playdough - AllRecipes.com - 1)Make the dough; 2)Make cool stuff with it; 3)Eat it.
• Kid Concoctions - see the web-site for their current "free top secret" recipe
• Cheese - Easy to Use Kits from New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Ventriloquism

• Ventrilo-QuickT.M. - An On-Line reference guide to Learning Ventriloquism

Yo-Yo's

• Smarty Pants' 3D Yo-Yo Tricks - Reviews of Yo-Yos and animated instructions for doing tricks.

Misc. Collections of things to do ...

• "An imaginative variety of quality things for dads and kids to do together" by Bob Hirschfeld
• KidsCraft Recipe Factory

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