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World Wisdom - Budget-Friendly, Sustainable Spring Break Ideas

Motherhood Moments

As 50 million children get excited for Spring Break, the Paper and Packaging Board (P+PB) is encouraging families to make the week-long ritual more fun and educational by adopting a sustainability theme. Whether going away or staying home for Spring Break, there are many ways families can create teachable moments about recycling.

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Nail Polish Marbled Flower Pots – a kid-friendly craft

Family Balance Sheet

These Nail Polish Marbled Flower Pots are a super cute craft that your kids can create (with your help) to give as gifts for Mother’s Day, other holidays or teachers. My daughters’ Girl Scout troop decorated these flower pots and I just had to share because they turned out so well and my girls had fun making them.

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8 Social Distancing Activities for Families on Lockdown

Couponing 101

When your family needs a break, you don’t need to lament the fact that you have nowhere to go. Get out the family friendly board games ! The right game can give the whole family hours of fun. Plus, your whole family can get in on the construction and then pile into the fort to relax, read, or chat. Plant Something.

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How Growing Your Finances Is Like Gardening

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

My spouse and I have gained quite a bit of experience planting bushes, trees and flowers over the years. Our two biggest experiences were in planting thousands of pine seedlings from the state nursery on our 40 acre farm (in our younger years)and planting around 3000 spring flowering bulbs on our current 6 acres.

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Time for Fall Flowers!

Nicoles Nickels

But there is a whole group in this flower family that are perennials that you can buy once and enjoy year after year. Among many others I present to you the aster: In my experience, asters have more of a wild flower look about them, a little longer, a little sparser, but just as vivid in color as mums and they are a fall bloomer.

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Affordable Wellness Activities for the Whole Family

Couponing 101

Spending time with family is a priority that is often difficult to find the time to do, but it’s extremely important and develops such priceless memories. With busy day-to-day schedules, families will often plan big vacations or activities to spend time together and get away from the hustle and bustle. Take a Road Trip.

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Guerrilla Gardening And Seed Bombing

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Sure, people do actually plant some of them, but I think throwing them is much more fun. Imagine if everyone started guerrilla gardening in their hometowns, filling in all those empty spots and roadside tracts of land with flowers and/or food; sure would make this world a better looking place, no? Find a local supply of plants.

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