Family Activities

Turn Left Over Gift Wrap Into a Learning Activity
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Turn Left Over Gift Wrap Into a Learning Activity

Guest blogger Rhonda writes: It’s time to start putting your Christmas decorations away. While I love to store and reuse gift bags, tissue and ribbon (you know I’m thrifty right), I have a few ‘stick on’ bows left over from my teenagers’ Christmas party (btw they used them as decorations on the counter tops and table-so…

Creating Annual Christmas Ornaments With Your Kids
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Creating Annual Christmas Ornaments With Your Kids

I realize there are people out there that find joy in going down to the Hallmark store and picking out an ornament each year. Paying that much for an ornament almost gives me a panic attack.  I’m thrifty and crafty so the idea of making my own brings me much delight.  Maybe that’s because in…

Free Printable Color Your Own Christmas Treat Bag Toppers
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Free Printable Color Your Own Christmas Treat Bag Toppers

I really love giving baked goods away at the holidays to all the people on my list that aren’t on my “list” if you know what I mean.  I talking those teachers, neighbors, pastors, mail people and anyone else you need a nice gift for that doesn’t cut into your main Christmas budget. I was…

How To Plan a Thrifty Disney Vacation In The Off-Season

How To Plan a Thrifty Disney Vacation In The Off-Season

If you haven’t discovered how to plan a thrifty Disney vacation in the off-season, you haven’t truly experienced the parks to their fullest.  Who doesn’t love Disney right?  I mean they have created these perfect pristine environments that makes everyone feel like a kid!  The parks are the best in the world and are enjoyable…

Pumpkin Fun 101:From Carving to Seed Roasting

Pumpkin Fun 101:From Carving to Seed Roasting

On the heels of Kim’s blog about game night for your tweens & teens, I have another activity that my teenagers and their friends love to do -carve pumpkins! Along with dyeing Easter eggs, I can’t remember an age that my kids didn’t want to carve pumpkins, we just include their friends now. So as the friends are cutting…

Family Game Night with Tweens & Teens: Get Strategic

Family Game Night with Tweens & Teens: Get Strategic

I don’t know many people who don’t love a good old family game night.  There are many amazing games out there that are probably overlooked by the average family simply because they like to stick with the classics.  You know, games like “Monopoly”, “Scategories” and “Pictionary”.  But the kinds of games I’m talking about get…

Tips and Tricks for Successful Apple Picking
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Tips and Tricks for Successful Apple Picking

The weather is beginning to cool down and September is on its way.  For me, that means my most favorite season is rolling in.  Fall.  But before I get out my pumpkin spice and “Happy Fall” flag (which actually looks like it says “Happy Fail” from the road for some reason) I prepare for my other favorite…