So ever since last summer, I have had the privilege to have my 12 year old niece Angie stay over for a couple weeks. She is from a small town in Nevada which is somewhat limited in certain things/places you can go too (the closest theater is about an hr away). This year since I am home for the summer I thought we can do so much more, until reality hit, I have 4 kids under my waist! At first I had NO IDEA what to do with them! Seriously, if you haven't been a stay at home mom for a bit, you sort of loose your edge, at least I did. Especially when it came down to places to enjoy, entrance fees to those certain places, and plainly just what the heck were we going to do at home!
While I was at school or work I would have so many ideas I can do/ teach my kids, sadly all those ideas just weren't coming to me in the time of need :( Well, neat less to say Instagram and Pinterest saved me and brought my mojo back! I found a lot of DIY projects that you can do and on a really good budget! The dollar stores are one of my favorite places to go to. You can really get a whole lot of supplies there and if you get on craft stores' mailing list, you can get plenty of more deals and puts also puts a smile on your wallet :)
One of our first summer projects were Popsicle frames. My niece Angie put one of her favorite pictures in here of this summer :) The sentiment came from Cricut Font and Basic Shapes using my Explore, which she knows all to well :) Even Eileen had fun making one and she is half her age! Personally I think craft stores are a bit overpriced for plain Popsicle sticks so try going to the dollar store for this or just stock up on ice cream and collect their sticks!
Since the photo kept sliding down, we took one of the sticks, cut it in half, and glued it down. We also stuck on some magnets to stick the frame to our fridge. The magnet sheets I got are from Hobby Lobby Thought these were pretty reasonable in price since I cut them to the desired size. Eventually it all depends on how much your willing to spend and obviously how much your going to make, then again the possibilities of using this are endless :)
Andrew and Angie made these awesome canvases! Before painting, they applied tape to the spots where they didn't want paint on them. After they painted their canvas the way they liked it, they removed the tape (waited to dry about 10 min) and VIOLA! This one in particular is from Andrew. The canvases I bought were on sale at my Michael's and so was the acrylic paint. If you are not in their mailing list, do so, it will save you in the long run :)
It is so much fun to create with kids and letting their creativity take off. It really beats sitting on the couch watching television or playing a game console for hours not really moving much. Summer is in full effect right now and so many more ideas come to mind! I have already told my kids to save our toilet paper rolls for our next project LOL! As for this one, this is one of the girls favorite but at the same time a challenge and that was a to create this dream catcher!
The feathers for this are from my dollar store and come in a decent pack as you can see in the previous picture. The beads are from Hobby Lobby but using their coupon (get yours joining their mailing list) I got 1lb of beads for about five dollars. Can't beat that if you have girls in the house :) I am pretty sure I will have to go back and get some more LOL!
Of coarse summer is not complete if you just stayed home (personally I like that idea, HA) so Groupon has been a help too! Signing up is totally free and easy. Also checking your city's website can also give you information on free activities as well as discount days like museums and what not. Even places like Chuck E. Cheese have promotions! Oh, if only Disneyland offered one free park hopper for residents one day out of year *sigh.* Well Walt did say Dreams Do Come True :).
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