Dressify Hall of Fame top contenders

Here are a few recent gems from the Dressify Hall of Fame:

The dad life - happiness is ...

Happiness is:

Planes!

Being silly

Flying

Dancing with dad

Sharing food

Music

Dress ups

Having lots of balls

Bubbles!

The island of dad

(this is a collection of images I found on the web - if any of them belong to you please let us know so we can credit you or remove the image if you don't want it featured here).

-DIYFather.com

School run with Bohemian Rhapsody

Epic! Must watch ... and get your air guitar out

Enjoy,

Stef

Gifts for dads - the manslater and lala fingers

Here's a product we all need ... the "manslater" ... translate woman language into every day simple man language. Give this to yourself for Mothers Day! :-) Ideally they would also make a 'momslater' ...

Another product that uses the opposite approach is Brilliant Industries' La La Finger.

Enjoy

Stef

Indoor bowling DIY style

Here's a great game you can play with young children aged 18 months and up. It's your own version of 10 pin bowling except that you don't need pins or a bowling alley - all you need is a ball (any ball) and your little one's favorite toys (whatever they are in to at the moment). Here's what you do:

1. Clear some space on the floor (living room, nursery ... wherever you've got a few feet / yards of floors space)
   
2. Get a handful of your child's favorite toys and line them up in row
   
3. Grab a ball (e.g. soft ball, tennis ball, golf ball - whatever you can find in the house) and move away from the toys you set up - now roll the ball towards the toys to try and knock them over

Dads choice awards: top free iPhone apps for toddlers

Here's a list of top free iPhone apps for Toddlers. Surprisingly there are actually not that many (useful ones). There are lots of variations of memory games, flash cards and sound apps but by and large they are all the same. The ranking of the apps below is determined by votes (one vote per day max). You can submit any other toddler apps to get them included in the ranking.

Kids can match - animals
Well designed an implemented "memory game" (matching pairs) app for older toddlers (2-3 years).
-Submitted by the Secret Panda Society

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Kids sing along songs
Nice little app with 5 common nursery rhymes - great for singing to your little one(s).

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I here Ewe - Animal Sounds for Toddlers
Simple animal sound app for babies and toddlers (great for ages 6-18 months)

-submitted by Raquel

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Shapes Toddler Preschool
Shape recognition app (and other quizzes) for older toddlers (18-24 months). Great for developing fine motor skills and hand-eye-coordination.

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Toddler Flashcards (free)
The name says it all - an app that displays flashcards to prompt toddlers to say (announce) the object / concept they see on the screen. Great for traveling and you'll never ever lose a cardboard flashcard again or have it chewed to bits by your dog.

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Easter Apps

Predictably the Easter season has also affected iPhone and iPad developers and as a result they have come up with a number of Easter-themed Apps. If you're stuck inside this Easter or just want to avoid the mess that comes with a game of Egg Toss - check out the following free Easter Apps for a bit of entertainment on your iPhone, iPod or iPad over Easter.

• Bunny Fingers Easter Rabbit Reality - Ever get the feeling that you're seeing bunnies everywhere ... well this app
  helps you see them.




• Easter Egg Hunt 3D - go on elaborate Easter Egg hunts and never leave the house with this app.
  
  

Fashion face off - Shiloh Nouvel outclasses Susie Cruise

We used our dress sense app Dressify to put celebrity kids to the test ... Dressify confirmed that Shiloh Nouvel has the edge over Susie Cruise.

How does your dress sense stack up? Get Dressify (free) and find out

DIYFather.com

50 epic songs you must introduce your kids to before you die

Despite all the Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Spottify, RDIO and what not social sharing of information and music there is every chance that your kids will not have discovered one (or several) of the following songs by the time they leave school (or before you kick the bucket). So here's a chance to have some cool father-son or father-daughter moments by playing one of the epic anthems (as in mood altering songs that are longer than 5 mins) of all time to them. In alphabetical order ...

* A Friend In Need - Placebo
* Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers
* America Pie - Don Mclean
* Angie - Rolling Stones
* Ashes To Ashes - David Bowie
* Bakerstreet - Gerry Rafferty
* Black Magic Woman - Santana
* Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
* Blasphemous Rumors - Depeche Mode
* Blue Monday - New Order
* Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
* Born Slippy - Underworld
* Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits
* Cafe Del Mar - Energy 52
* Creep - Radiohead
* Everyday People - Arrested Development

Games to play over Easter

Some ideas for Easter inspired games to play with your kids over the Easter holidays.

1. Easter egg hunt - the classic ... pretty simple to set up. Get some chocolate eggs, colored eggs, chocolate Easter bunnies or other treats and hide them in your backyard, garden, a park or just inside the house. When done - call your kids and let them find the hidden treats.


2. Chase the rabbit tail - use an old scarf and tuck into the back of your trousers and get your kids to grab the tail and take it off. Take turns on who's got the tail. As a variation you can play this in a way that all players are only allowed to move by hoping or jumping.