Ever since we were asked to be Nintendo family bloggers at the start of the year we've been lucky enough to receive some brilliant parcels through the post from them.So far, Master Frugal's favourite delivery by far has been Mario Kart 8 for the Wii U which is even better than the previous versions of Mario Kart Wii with new power ups and new characters along with options to customise your karts. The game play is more fun too and even I manage to complete a course without falling off the track a million times like I used to. I love Mario Kart 8 better than the others because you go … [Read more...]
Five Free things you can do this Summer #4….
We all know that you don’t have to spend lots of money to have fun together but every now and again we all need a quick reminder of some of the fun things we can do for free! This is the fourth post in my series of Summer Holiday reminders of fun activities that won’t cost you a penny and to change things up a little bit, I've asked a lovely lady you may already know to post her top five free things to do with the kids this Summer….Over to you Jen!Hi Guys and Gals, it is Jen from Mum in the Mad House and A Thrifty Mum and Cass has invited me to share with you five free things that you … [Read more...]
#SaveMoneyMonday – A quick reminder about a couple of ways to save money on days out….
Like most of you probably do, I try and budget some extra money for the Summer Holidays so we can have a few 'big' family days out as well as all of the free and cheaper days that we try and do together. This week's #SaveMoneyMonday is a quick reminder about saving money on days out so you can have more days out for your money!I've got lots of ideas on how to save money on days out in this post so it's definitely worth checking out before you go anywhere but the main reason for this post is because last week Miss Frugal was invited to Lightwater Valley by some of her friends. At £20 … [Read more...]
Five Free things you can do this Summer #3….
We all know that you don’t have to spend lots of money to have fun together but every now and again we all need a quick reminder of some of the fun things we can do for free! This is the third post in my series of Summer Holiday reminders of fun activities that won’t cost you a penny….Make your own colourful crayons - Gather up all of your broken or old wax crayons and turn them into brilliant fun colourful crayons. If you don't have any then you can buy a new pack for about 30p in most supermarkets. These crayons are fun to make together but even more fun … [Read more...]
Five free things you can do this Summer #2….
We all know that you don't have to spend money to have fun but sometimes we need a quick reminder of the fun things we can do for free so here's the second in my series of my Summer Holiday reminders of some fun things to do together that won't cost you a penny....Make Gloop - This is one of the most fun things we've done together at home. Gloop is amazing stuff and it's quite good to get a bit of science in to the holidays too.Have a go at Geocaching – if you don’t know what it is or you haven’t tried it then you really need to have a look at the website and see what it’s all … [Read more...]
Encouraging learning through the Summer Holidays….
Miss Frugal's new school have set her homework to complete throughout the Summer Holidays and whilst I don't agree with the volume of homework she's been given, I do agree with the principal of continuing to encourage learning through the holidays - albeit in a much less formal and structured way than they learn at school.Encouraging Reading There are so many ways to encourage reading but my big thing about reading is making sure that I don't make them read when they don't want to because I want to encourage them to love to read rather than just reading because they're told do! Saying … [Read more...]
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