Welcome to Week 6 of our Project Summer Frugal Fun Challenge. Be sure to complete today’s easy task at the bottom to enter to win a $25 Amazon gift card!
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How’s everybody doing?
Although I still haven’t crossed off “Take a Nap” from my Summer Fun list, it’s been a good week. 🙂
We had a blast with some friends at a local shopping center with a water play area. And it was smoking HOT around here this week, so it was a welcome relief from the heat.
We also enjoyed Vacation Bible School at our church this week. Have you ever taken your kids to VBS? Our kids loved it.
Speaking of loving places, have I mentioned how much I love the library? We enjoyed lunch there on Wednesday while listening to stories. Love. that. place.
A visit to the library last summer
And today we are having a Yard Sale! Give it up for getting paid to get rid of stuff and cute kids with lemonade stands!
How about you? How was your week?
$25 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway:
The Project Summer Frugal Fun Challenge:
I want YOU to get involved with our Frugal Fun Guide. I LOVE picturing you using my Summer Fun Planner as a resource. This is a tool that I hope will help you have a fun and rewarding summer if you have kids (or grandkids or neighbors or nieces and nephews). And even if you don’t have kids, there’s a little something for everyone!
So here’s what we’re going to do. During the month of June, July and August, I am going to give away a $25 Amazon gift card to someone who joins the Project Summer Frugal Fun Challenge.
Here’s how to enter:
Entering to win is easy. At the end of each Project Summer post this month (there will be many!), there will be one method of entry. If you choose to complete that task, you will be entered!
At the end of each month (June, July and August) I’ll randomly select one winner from the comments left on each of the posts to win a $25 Amazon gift card. So that means the more you get involved with the Project Summer Frugal Fun Challenge, the more chances you will have to win!
Here is today’s task:
- What is one fun frugal activity that you hope to do before the summer is over? Leave a comment on this post sharing what it is. (Click here if you need some inspiration.)
Click here to find even more ways to enter to win!
Disclaimer: This post is not sponsored by Amazon. The Amazon gift card is from me as a thank you to my readers!
I would like to take the children to a couple of different local parks that have playgrounds.
My daughter and I go to a local free splash playground.
I hope to go to more yard sales
We go to Smith Memorial Playground and my kids love it. I highly recommend this playground!
I am hoping to make it to Smith Memorial Playground. It looks like fun and is free!
We are planning on taking our kids to a state park (free admission) where there is a short hike up to a waterfall and at the bottom the kids can wade in the pond. We will bring a picnic lunch. State parks are a great way to get outside and do something fun. We went to a castle at one about 30 minutes away, it was only a few dollars for the tour and after a picnic lunch, we hiked for a while and ate wild raspberries on the trail. My boys loved it and so did we!
Well, I did accomplish one of my frugal goals this past week which was taking the kids to our local movie theater for the $3 matinee 🙂 There are no more free movies around us anymore, but I do miss taking them to that sprinkler!!!!!! So, the next frugal trip on my list is the library. I’m ashamed to say that we have to make it there this summer. New goal set!!!!!
I am hoping my husband and I will get to go golfing at the local par 3. On Wed. they have a special $5 for 9 holes!
I want to take the kids to the pool during the discounted Twilight hours when the sun is not blazing but the heat is still on. 🙂
on my to do list still – a trip to the movies with some sort of discount, or at our local $4 theater. i want to hit manderach playground once the heat lessens. and i want to set the sprinkler up in the yard one afternoon (again, when it’s not 100 degrees).
Take my kids to a free outdoor movie.
Go bowling with our free bowling coupons.
It ‘s super hot this week, so the kids asked me to bring them to the swimming pool again. And today I bought them a balloon pumper, they loved to play the water balloon at the backyard.
We took advantage of our library’s summer reading program. It was completely free, and the kids and I all earned prizes for reading, including free books!
I would like to take kids to the library story time.
I want to take my kids to the $1 movies at our local theater.
I’d like to take my kids bowling.
My daughter & I bought a $1 pattern at JoAnn’s and some material (with a coupon, of course). We are planning on sewing matching nightgowns (and this was her idea). We also got a couple of recipes we want to try out – crackers and churros.
We do an at-home ice cream parlor. After looking in the refrigerator and freezer to see what I have in the way of ice cream flavors and fresh fruit, the kids come up with a menu for treats like sundaes and shakes. We help them figure out fair prices. They’ll add topping items like Cool Whip, sprinkles, and nuts to the menu as well.
I would like to take my kids to a Home Depot workshop.