How to Host a Treasure Hunt for a Kids’ Birthday Party
Looking for a fun and inexpensive game for kids' birthday parties? Try making a treasure hunt! Kids love them and they're easy! Here are some sample clues!
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Resurrection Eggs (for Easter)
Resurrection Eggs are a great way to teach kids the true meaning and the importance of Easter! Try these easy steps to Make Resurrection Eggs for Easter.
Kids Recipes and Crafts – Play Dough Recipe – Homemade Slime
Easy Edible Play Dough Recipe, Easy Bubbles and Homemade Slime are fun kids recipes and crafts that'll keep your kids entertained for hours!
Growing Crystals Recipe – Fun Kids Science Experiment
This growing crystals recipe makes a fun science experiment for kids! It's an easy craft and kids love watching the crystals grow a little more each day!
Homemade Slime Recipe – Fun For Kids!
Here's a fun, easy and inexpensive homemade slime recipe that the kids will love! It's easy to make and great for all kinds of parties.
Easy Finger Paints Recipe – How To Make Finger Paint
Here's a quick and easy homemade finger paint recipe to save money making finger paint with ingredients you already have! A great indoor activity for kids!
How To Get Kids To Help Around The House
Many people wonder how to get kids to help around the house. These easy tips help you train kids to help around the house and learn important life skills!
8 Cloth Diapers Tips For Newbies
8 Cloth Diapers Tips For Newbies If you are considering cloth diapers, here is my story. Among other things, I will explain how I wash my cloth diapers and how many you need to start. Many people have many different motives for using cloth diapers, but my motivation is purely to save money. I do …
Reader Ideas on Packing Food for Road Trips
Cheap and easy ideas to help you pack food for your vacation or road trip.
Easy Homemade Face Paint Recipe – How To Make Face Paint
Kids love painting their faces! Here is an easy homemade face paint recipe to make homemade face paint with ingredients you already have at home!
Summer Snacking for Kids
Snacks for kids at home during summer break.
Ask Tawra and Jill – How do I?
Here are some “Short Answers” to some of the questions readers have submitted to Tawra and Jill: Jill from Michigan asks: “Tawra – I read your information of cloth diapering and I’m wondering how much vinegar you wash them with and do you use special laundry soap?” I put in about 1/2 – 1 cup …
Limiting Kids’ Activities
Many people are overwhelmed with the stress and cost of extra kids activities. Here's how to save money and reduce stress by keeping activities reasonable!
Children, Wasting Food and Portion Control
Stop Throwing Away Food! I have discovered the secret of saving money feeding babies, toddlers and preschoolers. Well, I can’t take the credit for it. My mom taught it to me many years ago but I didn’t put it into practice until the first financial crisis we had when my husband was laid off. What …
Make Your Own Custom Lunch Box
Have you ever looked for a lunch box that your child would like only to settle for something that you knew wouldn’t quite do the job? I have more than once found myself frustrated because all the lunch boxes I could find were either too expensive, too cheaply made or featured characters my kids …
Healthy Eating
Sandra writes: I really hope you can help me. I am going crazy and, at the same time, I am hurting my 4 year old. My daughter turned 4 last month but here is the catch — She weighs 68 lbs. I know she is way over weight. That is what everybody keeps telling me, …
Our Readers Weigh In On The Great Milk Crisis!
Our Readers Weigh In On The Great Milk Crisis! Tina H Writes: Thank you for the milk article. I have been attempting to warn my friends for months. I work for the local government and periodically get to sit in on different meetings including dairy farmers, etc. What the average person doesn’t know is that …
Daughters’ Financial Emergencies Cause Financial Strain
Susan from Texas asks: “As a single mother of two grown daughters, scratching and clawing my way out of substantial credit card and other debt, please give me some ideas about dealing with daughters’ emergencies, specifically health issues, not life-threatening but urgent never the less.” Tawra Wrote: I was going to work on your …
Teens Don’t Have to Cost More Than Babies!
Whenever my daughter Tawra talks about how to live frugally, she can always count on one type of feedback — from people who say, “You don’t understand what it’s like. You have young children and not teenagers. Teenagers cost more!” Most of the advice and tips that Tawra shares come from me. I have raised …
Teaching Kids about Money
So many people ask how to teach their kids about money, hoping we can give them a 1-2-3 formula to use that will help their child become a wise caretaker of his money and maybe even a future Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey. Many parents ask this question because they are terrified that their children …