The best money I have ever spent on toys for my children is my annual toy library membership. Our toy library has no per toy charge. We get a wide range of toys and puzzles and they get changed every two weeks so the kids always have something new and interesting. The second best money […]
Halve children’s toys, and store in the ceiling for six months…then swap them over.
When my grandchild was a preschooler and I looked after her during the day, we spent many long hours in the organic veggie garden One thing Emma wanted to do was to grow something herself, by her self We chose the silver beet that we purchased, then Emma planted, them watered them & cared for […]
Kids garden. The good thing about a kids garden is that it does not need to be big… something about a metre square should be enough. We recommend a raised garden, using a timber frame with a minimum height of 150mm (and if they get tired of gardening it can always be turned into a […]
Here are some free and fun ideas for the kids on cold, wet days: – Place a drop of food colouring on their tongues. This should entertain them for five minutes or so. – Give them an ice cube in a cup and ask them to melt it. This could occupy them for about 10 […]
School Holidays… Can’t afford a school holiday programme? Then get together with friends and start your own. If you can only get one day a week off work, then get your mates to do the same thing, (different days), and drop your kids at the appropriate house with their packed lunch. Arrange between yourselves different […]
Recently we wanted to play Happy Families but not having the cards we gathered shoes and distributed them and then had to find the matching one. We each hid behind sofas/chairs in four corners of the room with our little collection and peeped out to ask for the missing shoe we were after. The children […]
Buy school uniforms (especially the expensive items like winter jackets) through the classified ad’s or through a school notice board.
My daughters dolls clothes, cot blankets, bibs are real babies clothes from Op Shops.
To teach our kids about saving on the outside of their money box we write down how much is inside and a target to be saved. Each week we count the coins and figure out how much needs to be saved to reach the target. Once reached we then put it into their KiwiSaver account. […]