Today is the last day in this series. I hope you all have enjoyed 4 Weeks of Frugal Family Fun series. Our family had fun doing so many things together. I know there are a few activities our family will continue to do again and again. We decided to do an activity with water […]
4 Weeks of Frugal Family Fun Day 19…Making Jam
We have been harvesting quite a few raspberries off our plants in our garden recently. We picked some raspberries and then decided to make some freezer jam. My kids are really good about helping out in the kitchen and since there isn’t much cooking involved with making freezer jam I let the kids do all […]
4 Weeks of Frugal Family Fun Day 18…Watercolor Drawings
My kids like to paint so we used our watercolor pencils to make our own paint with water pictures. To get started the kids got out some of our heavier weight paper. Since we were going to be adding water to the paper we wanted it to be stronger than the regular copy paper. The […]
4 Weeks of Frugal Family Fun Day 17…MYO Play Dough
Today we made some play dough. I let the kids measure and make it almost all on their own. They did all the work except for the stirring towards then end when the play dough became very thick.We used this recipe here from Best Recipes. The kids used the blue food coloring to color the […]
4 Weeks of Frugal Family Fun Day 16…MYO Snow Cones
Since our weather here has been getting warmer each day we decided to make some snow cones. The first thing we did was to make the snow cone syrup. Here is the recipe we used: 2 Cups sugar 3/4 cup water 1 pkg unsweetened Kool-Aid Mix the sugar and water in a saucepan. Cook on the […]
4 Weeks of Frugal Family Fun Day 15…Face Painting
Today we made our own face paints. I found this recipe over at I Can Teach My Child. This recipe was really easy to make and the kids helped me mix them up. To make this recipe you only need cornstarch, water, milk and food coloring. I did find that this face paint does leave a […]
4 Weeks of Frugal Family Fun Day 14…Seed Bombs
Today we made some seed bombs. I found this idea at The Frugal Girls. I will warn you this is very messy. We did our outside and I am so glad we did. Mixing up the Seed Bombs We used air drying clay that we had purchased from the store. The kind we used […]
4 Weeks of Frugal Family Fun Day 13…Baking Day
Today was not a good day to be outside. But I am not complaining at all I know in many areas this summer has been very hot and uncomfortable. Since it was cooler today, we decided to do some baking and make some popsicles. We baked up some chewy granola bars using some of our […]
