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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]

This weekend we made a visit to the Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden. I have been going to this garden since I was a little girl. We had not taken our daughter for a while and our son had never been. I used to go as a child and feed the ducks. While they don’t allow […]

Today we ventured out to The Candy Basket store. We went there for our Frugal Family Fun because they have a chocolate waterfall so to speak. My daughter has been to see if before but not my son. So we took a trip there today. I am not sure that my son was all that […]

We had a really great time today. My husband is a pilot in his spare time and we love to go out to the airport he flies out of and watch the planes come and go. So today we packed up a lunch and headed out to the airport. After about 15 minutes we arrived […]