Bits and pieces of John Dalton from all over your internet. - tagged with children

R2-D2 cake

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:01:00 -0500

The finished product, with colours (made using powedered food colouring mixed into pastes) filled in by brush.

Originally tweeted: twitter.com/#!/johndalton/status/78293754947174400

Outlines

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:00:00 -0500

Outlines completed (NO! I MISSED SOME!! ARGH!!!)

I had plenty of icing left over, and was going to colour a batch of it black for this, but found a pre-made black gel icing tube i the cupboard which I used to save time.

Originally tweeted: twitter.com/#!/johndalton/status/78293519575433216

A mysterious silhouette…

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:59:00 -0500

Well, not very mysterious to @halften (one of our home viewers on Twitter) who guessed straight away. "Homer Simpson" was another guess, and I can see that now.

Originally tweeted: twitter.com/#!/johndalton/status/78063481278050304

Computer Science Unplugged

Sun, 17 May 2009 22:56:00 -0500

Excellent material for teaching school-age kids about CS concepts without using computers.

Gever Tulley on 5 dangerous things for kids | Video on TED.com

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:23:00 -0600

From Twitter: If you attended "Geek Parenting" at the #lca, I highly recommend this TED talk video ... http://ti nyurl.com/gever-tully :)

http://twitter.com/geekscape/status/1129378596

(I didn't get to attend the geek parenting session though :( )