Last Summer Holidays I wrote a post every week sharing five free things you could do with the kids in Summer and when I ran out of ideas, I asked some lovely blogger friends to take over and share their five favourite free things to do with the kids.This Summer I've been having so much fun with the kids that I haven't had the chance to write something similar as I'd planned to do but I've been making use of lots of the ideas in the posts so I thought I'd write a little round up for you tonight.Just click on the images to have a look at each of the ideas in more detail from my posts … [Read more...]
How to hold a fun frugal festival in your own back garden….
Despite seeing lots of amazing photos online of the fun that everyone's been having at this Summer's family festivals across the UK, we still haven't made it to one as a family.We decided to have a bit of a festival at home instead though to take advantage of one of the few really sunny days that we've seen this year and I'm pleased to say that the now annual frugal festival was a success and we had a lovely day!We got to choose our own music, we had food and drink on tap and we didn't have to pitch a tent and camp out. Not to mention the fact that we had no wifi issues and we got to … [Read more...]
Squabbling Siblings (and how to stop it before they drive you crazy)….
Aaaagh!I don't know about anyone else but three weeks in to the Summer Holidays and my usually laid back children have been arguing over the least little thing. I'm not exaggerating - the other day they actually argued over who was having which tea bag!It's so unlike them, just look at the photo I took at the start of the holidays when Master Frugal was getting his ear pierced....I tried to explain gently that it was upsetting me to hear them arguing when it was so out of character and that didn't work.So I took them out for the day and kept them occupied and having fun … [Read more...]
Stay organised and save money this Summer….
As always, we're counting down the days to the Summer Holidays this year (19 sleeps for us) and we can't wait for the freedom that the holidays always bring - no early mornings for the kids, no school, no homework, no early nights and even better than all of that is the three weeks holiday I have coming up!I don't know about you but in the past we've tried to fit so much in to our time off that we've been exhausted rather than refreshed by the time September comes around! Last year was a bit different for us though as we tried to have a bit of a lazy Summer which meant that, although we … [Read more...]
Homemade ice cream cornet S’mores (no BBQ needed)….
I've never tried a real S'more but I know that I like the idea of them and after attempting to make our own oven baked S'mores last year we've been trying to perfect our own version.We've been making them in ice cream cornets recently, the ones with the flat bottom. I usually just fill a cornet with marshmallows and chocolate chips (or buttons), wrap them in foil and pop them in the oven on a low heat for 10 minutes. They're delicious with all the gooey marshallow and melted chocolate mixing together for a perfect treat for the kids.But the other day I'd ran out of foil and Miss … [Read more...]
Pipe cleaner crowns….
OK, so we know that I'm not the craftiest blogger around but we did make some pretty pipe cleaner crowns this weekend that I thought you might like to see....We used glitter pipe cleaners from Tesco because we wanted some sparkle as our crowns were for the Race for Life last Sunday (although we ended up leaving them in the car). They were £1.25 a pack and lots of the crafty stuff is on 3 for 4 or something like that so I bought a couple of packs and some coloured paper as well.You can't go far wrong if you start by making the band that goes around your head and then, once you've … [Read more...]
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