by Lois Breneman, © 2007, Heart to Heart Newsletter
You and your children will enjoy these "cool" money-saving summertime tips!
Make a water table for your children. Use a clear plastic under-the-bed storage box and place it on a table or several cinder blocks to raise it up. Fill it half full of water. Give your children kitchen gadgets you no longer use or find some at yard sales - funnels, measuring cups, wooden spoons, empty containers from Cool Whip, clean empty plastic bottles that spray or squirt, whisks and plastic tubing, which can be found at a hardware store. Save the colorful lids from laundry detergent bottles for endless fun - fitting the lids together, learning colors and pouring water from one lid to another. Near the end of their playtime as they are getting bored, extend their attention span by squirting a few drops of dishwashing liquid into the water and letting your children have more fun, whisking and stirring as the bubbles multiply!
Make a water slide by cutting the sides of a couple heavy duty garbage bags apart into a long single layer. Sew two or three bags together in a longer strip, depending on how long your hill may be. Lay the bags on a hill and drizzle water down the plastic and you've created a water slide for hours of fun! Only one child at a time to prevent collisions!
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