Old fashioned play, frugal ways to play are often the very best kind and I am a huge believer in using what you have to hand to entertain yourself rather than having to pay.
A trip to the cinema can be £30 …a DVD borrowed from a family friend? Nothing.
Yep, it is EASY to be thrifty.
Frugal ways to play
Here are some of my favourite thrifty play ideas..do you do /remember any of these:
1. Folded Paper Monster
I bet you made these as a child! You can find the very simple instructions here.
2. Arts and crafts from your recycling – all you need is glue and your imagination. Have a look here for junky modelling inspiration.
3. Flower pressing
It is so lovely to play with flowers and flower pressing is free and fabulous and can lead to some lovely art projects.
4. How about some printer play form downloading a word search to making a banner for Fathers day. Printers lend themselves to great play ideas.
Treasure hunting
Natures bounty is the perfect frugal way to play treasure hunts and collect some great craft material. You just need an egg box and to get outside.
So entertaining the kids in the holidays or at a weekend with frugal ways to play need not be expensive at all!
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So how frugal have you been this week?
Actually, I’ve never seen those folded paper monsters, but I’ll be making one the next chance I get! 😀
What lovely frugal ideas! I’ll be doing a few of these with the kids this week while they’re off school.
Wow you amaze me with these ideas!
I bet you’re an Art teacher! If not, you were one in a former life! I’ve not seen or heard of those monster ideas before so will check it out as it looks like we will have some good laughs. Thanks so much for these ideas for fun times that won’t cost much.
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Ah bless you – have fun with them!