When it comes to saving money people usually try to minimize how much they spend on groceries or they try cutting back on their electricity and water usage. Some people even take it to the next level and limit the amount they spend on their children’s acitivities. Here we’ve listed some fun arts and crafts activities that you and your children can enjoy by doing them together. Not only will these arts and crafts ideas help you cut back on some cash, but working on these projects with your kids will help you release some stress and put some fun back in your life by putting what matters the most first, and that is spending some quality time with your children.
Make Your Own Play Dough
What you’ll need: 2 cups of flour
1/3 cup of salt
1 cup of water
2 tbsp of vegetable oil
7 drops of food coloring (per batch in your choice of color)
Directions: Mix all dry ingredients with the vegetable oil. Add food coloring to the water and mix together. Mix all the ingredients adding it slowly to the other and stir. Once you see it getting firm take out of bowl and knead with your hands. And there you go you have some fun home=made play dough. Store in tupperware containers inside of the fridge to make the play dough last for a longer time.
Tips: You can add either vanilla extract or peppermint extract to the mix. Doing this helps prevent mold in the play dough and it preserves the play dough as well. Also it gives the play dough a better scent than it usually has.
