Free things to entertain your kids!

teedy23

This is a great find, can i rename it " Granny can tell the parents what to do and pretend it was all her own work"

eerrmmm not my own parents you understand. i,m an orphan now

Kaptin_Scarlet

dazed wrote: »

I am searching now! haha

The model is a4 sized but the son would like a full sized one! If its 'cheap' it will be nice for in the garden I suppose and something to play with his mates in! haha

perhaps you could get a cheap shed and do some drastic surgery on it with a jigsaw and assemble it so it's base is square and then paint it blue, but the roof might be tricky. Now that's the sort of thing i love making. good source of foam board, the cheapest I've found on the web at http://www.artdiscount.co.uk/ and the best ones to buy are white 20 sheets A2 at this page http://www.artdiscount.co.uk/acatalog/White__Foamboard.html you can make a lot of models with that stuff, but a 6' high TARDIS, you need camera trickery for that!

dazed

Kaptin_Scarlet wrote: »

perhaps you could get a cheap shed and do some drastic surgery on it with a jigsaw and assemble it so it's base is square and then paint it blue, but the roof might be tricky. Now that's the sort of thing i love making. good source of foam board, the cheapest I've found on the web at http://www.artdiscount.co.uk/ and the best ones to buy are white 20 sheets A2 at this page http://www.artdiscount.co.uk/acatalog/White__Foamboard.html you can make a lot of models with that stuff, but a 6' high TARDIS, you need camera trickery for that!

Yeah indeed I have got some a1 sheets of foam from work as we have a print team and marketing in house so I can use that.I could use http://www.rotatrim.co.uk/product.php?product_code=3 to get pieces cut to the correct size! But He is only 6 so I think 6ft is a bit too big and I am not turning the shed into a tardis!. Although it may help store all the stuff we have in the house that we are running out of space for!

Kaptin_Scarlet

especially if you could make it bigger on the inside...:rotfl:

dazed

Kaptin_Scarlet wrote: »

especially if you could make it bigger on the inside...:rotfl:

Indeed that is what I was trying to say in my ramble! :rotfl:

walkies_a

Seems there are some dads that are really pushing the limits to entertain/ gain brownie points

dazed

Have always been a hands on dad thought that is the right thing to do

Little lad appreciates it too and we are aways doing stuff and making things and never hardly inside if the weather is nice!

finnerty

I cannot get the pom pom instructions to download has anyone managed to do it

if anyone can download the ladybug / spider / turtle / sheep / and the fish ones and then e-mail them to me i'd press the thanks button

greenpixey

finnerty wrote: »

I cannot get the pom pom instructions to download has anyone managed to do it

if anyone can download the ladybug / spider / turtle / sheep / and the fish ones and then e-mail them to me i'd press the thanks button

I just tried it myself and are unable too...are you using firefox as well?
I'm gonna give it a go tomorrow using the office computer and see if it work any differently. If I can help you I will... otherwise I'd like as well if someone could email it to me.

finnerty

greenpixey wrote: »

I just tried it myself and are unable too...are you using firefox as well?
I'm gonna give it a go tomorrow using the office computer and see if it work any differently. If I can help you I will... otherwise I'd like as well if someone could email it to me.

thanks pixie

i've tried on aol and IE no luck with either