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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
FREE & FRUGAL Summer Activities for the Kids
Some are free, some are frugal. If you have other ideas, please be sure to leave them in the comments!!
Read Read Read!! Be sure to check out your local library for FUN Summer activities & programs they offer. Many offer a range of fun classes, storytime, and more for ALL AGES – babies to teens! Or, just head over and grab lots of books to read. We spend about 2 hours a week at the library just looking and reading books and enjoying the fun kids games they offer on the computers.
Swim swim swim! We have a pool at our home and we will be in it most of the summer. It keeps the kids busy and usually wears them out pretty well. We have friends over once a week to swim too. So if you don’t have a pool….maybe a friend does?? Or check out the YMCA in your town Tips: don’t forget sunscreen! If you swim alot like us, beware of Swimmer’s Ear (it’s no fun) ask your doctor for info.
Splash Pads - Many areas now offer splash pads/water areas at their public parks. These are a MUST for us. We can’t go to the park in Florida in the summer without a way to continually cool off (unless we go at 7am or 9pm lol) To find out more contact your local Parks & Recreation division in your area. Don’t forget sunscreen!!
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Vacation Bible School: check your local church locations for dates/times. Many are FREE!
Go on a walk: What better way to get in some exercise & family time + some education than a nice nature walk! If it’s overly humid you may want to do this in the early eve or first thing in the morning.
Treasure Hunt: I do this with my kids year-round. I make a list of things the kids need to find outside (or incorporate this into your family walk). I give them a plastic bag and off they go. They find things like rocks, leaves, pinecones, and more. Fun & FREE!
Teach them to cook/bake: Now that the kids are free from homework, baseball practice, youth group meetings, etc, they are home during all the meal time prep. Let them help! It will keep them busy and they will learn while having fun.
Have a theme day: We have theme days during the summer-once a week. For example, the last week of June we have Patriotic Day where we dress in red, white, and blue. We make crafts using red, white, and blue. I then decorate with all the crafts for 4th of July! Other ideas: beach day, Christmas in July, Cupcake Day (bake & decorate cupcakes and cupcake pictures). Have crafts ready, word searches, printouts, paint, and more ready!
Volunteer: Children of any age can volunteer. Small children can bring a smile to the face of nursing home residents! Older children can pick up litter at the local park. Donate to your local food pantry (great way to get the kids to help clean out the pantry!) Bake a treat for an elderly neighbor or make a meal for a new mom.
Camp-in: Too hot to camp out? Camp in the living room. Grab sleeping bags and tell stories. Have a fire place? Roast some marshmallows! Sing songs. Or if it’s not too hot, camp on the back porch or back yard. FUN!
These are just a few ideas that we do every summer as a family. Have more ideas to add? Be sure to leave them in the comment section below!
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Friday, January 6, 2012
Frugal and Free Fitness
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“Tubes are a compact alternative to weights,” says Brooke Marrone, a personal trainer in New York City, so you can use them for full-body strength training. They come in different resistance levels. For about $30, you can get a set containing weights that are light (for when you’re just starting), medium (for upper- and lower-body work), and heavy (for more intense lower-body training). Tip: Look for padded handles to ensure proper grip, which will help you to maintain good form. I found a set here for under $11 and it comes with a door attachment and exercise charts!
Inexpensive (about $8 or LESS) and lightweight, a jump rope is one of the easiest tools for high-intensity cardio. “ Jump for 30 seconds or more in between sets of upper- and lower-body resistance work,” says Marrone. Bonus: Circuit training burns extra calories. If you have a Dollar Tree or Dollar Store nearby you can find jump ropes for only $1.00! You can also GO HERE and find various types of jump ropes, different colors, sizes and more for under $6.oo!
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Christmas Ornament Dough: Recipes for Homemade Ornaments
Christmas Ornament Dough: Recipes for Homemade Ornaments -
The Christmas ornament dough recipes on this page are for several different types of ornament dough, including ornaments made from salt, oatmeal, cornstarch, and spices. If you're looking for a specific recipe for cinnamon ornament dough, you'll find that --and instructions for making homemade cinnamon ornaments-- here! LINK
Salt-Based Dough for Christmas Ornaments
Ingredients:
4 cups flour
1 cup salt
1.5 cups water
Mix: Mix the flour, salt and water together until well combined.
Create: Roll this dough out on a floured surface where you can cut out whatever shapes you want (cookie cutters are the perfect way to do this!). Alternatively, you can make three dimensional decorations (like snowmen) by using a ball of the salt dough and carving it into whatever images you want. You'd be amazed at how detailed you can get here.
Remember to build in a hole through which you can thread a ribbon or string so the final ornament hangs properly. (The end of a straw is good for this.)
Bake: When you're done making the basic image you'll need to bake your Christmas ornament dough at 300 degrees for half an hour.
Decorate! Once removed from the oven, cool your ornaments completely before adding paint or glitter. Hint: Nail polish makes awesome glossy paint, and it comes in wonderful Christmas colors.
Note: By the way, some people add 1 tbs. vegetable oil to this mix so it forms more of a "clay" you can try it both ways to see which result you like best.
Applesauce & Spice Christmas Ornament Dough
This doesn't make all that many ornaments, so I'd suggest doubling or tripling the recipe.
Ingredients:
1 cup Applesauce
1 1/2 cups ground ginger, allspice, cinnamon and clove (mixed as desired)
Mix: In a large mixing bowl, mix your ingredients together. If your dough seems crumbly you can add more applesauce or even just plain water.
Create: As with the Salt dough, you can use this to make 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional ornaments.
Cook: Once shaped the dough needs to cook for an hour at 200 degrees F., then cool completely before decorating. You can also leave the ornaments to air dry for several days if you have the time.
Decorate! Decorate as desired with glitter, paint, googly eyes, cotton pom-poms, you name it. You can even recycle old holiday cards or wrapping paper by taking colorful cuttings from them, gluing them to the ornament, then adding a few clear final coats of paint (decoupage style).
Oatmeal Christmas Ornament Dough
Ingredients:
1 cup oatmeal (not instant)
2/3 cup flour
1/2 cup water
Food coloring
Mix: Mix your dough together, adding more flour or water to get the texture desired. Food coloring can go into this mix-- strongly pigmented food colorings, like past food coloring, tend to work best.
Shape: Shape as desired using cookie cutters or rolling into different shapes.
Dry: This dough requires no cooking just let it dry completely at room temperature for 24 hours.
Decorate! Paint and design as desired. When tinting this Christmas ornament dough, you can tint the whole batch, or you can cut the dough into small balls and color each differently. For example, you could make red and green dough to make a 2-d Christmas tree with red bulbs on it.
Cornstarch Dough Homemade Christmas Ornament Recipe
Ingredients:
2 cups baking soda
2 cups corn starch
1 cup plus a little, cold water
Mix: Mix the baking soda, corn starch and water together in a pot over a low flame. Stir constantly until you're happy with the texture of the dough. You can add color to this base if desired.
Cool and Shape: Let cool slightly and shape as desired. Note that when shaping cornstarch dough Christmas ornaments, you'll want to fashion the item larger than you want-- it'll shrink by about 30%.
Dry: The final ornament will need to dry for 2 days at room temperature before you decorate it. The surface of cornstarch dough can be sanded for a smoother look, if desired.
Decorate! These white ornaments look pretty left plain, or with a little bit of glitter or silver paint along the edges. Or you could make something like a snowman with full painted features. Whatever you like!
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