Mother’s Day Gifts for Gardening Moms

Does Mom enjoy gardening? Brighten her special day with homemade gardening gifts from her children.
There is an immeasurable value in doing arts and crafts with your children. I hope parents and teachers will use the free Mother’s Day garden gift making instructions on the Crafters 4 Kids website to help children create amazing gardening gifts for Mom this Mother’s Day.

Here are just a few ideas:

Garden Kneeler: Gardening is so hard on the knees! Garden kneelers are the perfect cushion for your knees because of all the kneeling down to pull weeds and tend to the plants. Help children create this easy garden kneeler with Sunday’s newspaper and duct tape!

Painted Watering Can: Create a beautiful keepsake that will make Mom smile every time she waters her plants. Paint a metal watering can with acrylic paints. Use lines, swirls, and circles to create an easy pattern.

Wedding Ideas on a Budget

Weddings are a time to celebrate the love and devotion of two people. Weddings can be a mementos occasion without resulting in huge debt and regret. To create a wedding on a budget think of sentimental ways to celebrate the event and include your guests in the celebration.

Money Saving Tips:

DIY Wedding Projects – Make your own table centerpieces, guest book, invitations, and party favors. Designing your own invitations can be a big help to cut wedding costs. Create your invitations and invite guest to bring a photo of you and them together to place inside of the guest book. Guests can place the photo along with a caption in the guest book and your guest book can double as your first family album. For more information about DIY Wedding project ideas visit Bowdabrablog.com and Bowdabra.com

Spring Break Frugal Activities and Crafts for Kids

Spring Break is just around the corner; a week spent with children home from school looking for ways to have fun and be creative. As a parent you want their time spent at home to be quality family time. Plan fun frugal activities ahead of time so that when those adorable faces are staring at you begging for something to do you have a game plan.

1. Visit Crafters 4 Kids Online (http://c4k555.org)-  We have some creative frugal kids’ crafts that do not require a lot of time or craft materials. For instance, make a pet mouse using a rock, pipe cleaners, googley eyes, and a pom pom nose. Children can even take it a step further and design some fake cheese or even make a tiny shoebox home.

Do It Yourself: Spring Salsa Recipe

Searching for the perfect springtime recipe: Citrus Salsa!  The salsa has all my favorite springtime colors and tastes great.

I placed half of the salsa that I made into a canning jar and will be giving it as a hostess gift. The other half I will be putting out with chips for an appetizer before Easter dinner.

Perfect Spring Gift That Kids Can Make

It is just a matter of months before gardens will be in full bloom. Many of us have started seedlings indoors but what to do with all those extra seeds? Seed packets often come with way more seeds than the average gardener really needs. Why not give those extra seeds as gifts?