90 Low Cost or No Cost Activities to Entertain Your Kids All Summer Long
by: Debbie Dragon
If you find yourself checking the calendar to see when the kids return back to school and it’s only a week into their summer break, you may want to check out this list of 90 Low Cost or No Cost [...]
Easy Outside Games to Do For Your Weekly Family Activity
My parents were the king and queen of cheap/free family activities. Well most of the time free They had five children on a one income family but still wanted to do fun things together. They had to get very creative. My mother had a [...]
Parks and Playgrounds
We found the best park about 10 minutes from our house, its called Nielsen’s Grove. They have a lake with ducks, fountains to swim in, tulip gardens, a safe playground, good parking, covered picnic tables, and lots of empty fields to run in. We brought a picnic dinner, bread for the ducks, and out kites to [...]
Teaching Your Children the Importance of Saftey Around Dogs
Here are a couple quick videos of my daughter with our dogs, we have been teaching her from day one how to treat them, and they love her so much.
My husband is a dog trainer (Ty Brown http://www.communicanine.netand http://www.dogbehavioronline.com/) and one of his pet peeves (other than [...]
For your weekly family activity, sit down and plan what you and your family can do to become more “green”.
Start Recycling
See how you can cut down on driving, and walk/bike ride to more places
Talk about saving energy
Start a garden
Make a plan to use less water
Participate in Earth Hour—www.earthhour.org
Clean up a park
For many more ideas, and [...]
My Grandpa gave me such a great idea for a Family Activity the other day. It will be perfect for the weather, which is going to be cold and rainy (spring please come!). We have had such a busy week that it will be nice just to do a relaxing activity, that does not take [...]
My husband cannot join us tonight for our weekly family activity so I decided to bring my niece along. We are going on a little field trip to a local animal farm. The one near my house is located at www.thanksgivingpoint.com and admission to the animal farm is quite inexpensive. I actually got just an [...]
Weekly Family Night Activity
Just Give In!
I have a horrible day dreaming problem. Sometimes in my mind I want my life to be just like the movies, usually I live in the house from Father of the Bride and my children act like Von Trapps from the Sound of Music. We all have matching blue dresses, that I [...]
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