100% free Walgreens 8x10 collage-expired now

Walgreens.com is offering 1 FREE 8x10 Collage Print! Type in the Coupon Code 8X10TREAT at end during checkout and don't forget to choose FREE in-store pick up!

**I made a collage with my daughter tonight. She will take it to show and teach at school and show off her favorite things. EX: Pictures from her life: The dance recital, softball photo, with her sisters, baby brother, swimming, hunting with her Dad, her cat, reading, in the garden, etc. She was so excited to make it with me on a pink background.** It was titled Her favorite things 2010

**THE CODE EXPIRED SATURDAY, October 23rd!**

Free movie Monday from Redbox

Redbox’s free summertime movie Monday is coming up in a few days. Are you signed up to receive text messages with a unique code? Now a days they text you the code (it’s a one time use code), so make sure you have signed up for the alerts here (plus you get a free rental for signing up!).

Don’t know what a Redbox is? Get the details here.

Thanks, One cheap chick!

Free National Park Admission

Are you planning a summer trip and need to be frugal? Admission to nearly 400 national parks is free on the following dates this year.

• August 14-15, 2010
• September 25, 2010
• November 11, 2010

Go here for more information. Go here to search for a park by name, state or other criteria.

Info copied from One Cheap Chick

100 ideas of fun to do with the kids this summer!

Attention Moms and caregivers here's a simple list of 100 summer boredom busters from the Sisters Stuff blog (I added or changed a few to fit my likin'). I plan on printing it off, adding some new ones, and having it handy when I hear the words--I AM BORED. I doubt we'll do them all but it'll be fun to see how many we check off this summer with a new baby.

Have a great time checking some off this summer!

1. Go for a bike ride
2. Make homemade ice cream or visit an ice cream parlor
3. Bake a double batch of cookies and deliver one to another family
4. Learn a few magic tricks and produce your own magic show
5. Have a picnic at a park
6. Hike or climb trees
7. Make popcorn or maybe even caramel corn
8. Blow bubbles
9. Go swimming or water skiing
10. Plan a scavenger hunt for outside. Or plan one for in the house using every letter of the alphabet.
11. Make, roll, and bake a loaf of homemade bread together
12. Make homemade playdoh
13. Read a good book aloud to your parents or grandparents
14. Look through photo albums or view family movies, or videos
15. Make a collage from magazine words and pictures
16. Collect some canned goods for the food bank
17. Draw pictures with chalk on the sidewalk
18. Go fishing
19. Plan a family game night
20. Work on a jigsaw puzzle
21. Go roller skating
22. Paint a picture
23. Have a candy treasure hunt
24. Work on a crossword puzzle
25. Try origami (Japanese paper-folding) or make a paper airplane and fly it
26. Make an obstacle course in your back yard
27. Visit a tourist spot near your home
28. Write a poem
29. Make a bird feeder
30. Walk around your block and pick up all the litter you can find.
31. Go to the zoo
32. Go bowling
33. Make your own homemade pizza
34. Invite another family over for a game of charades or "Guesstures"
35. Listen to your favorite music and dance around
36. Go without TV for a day
37. Make a collage using seeds, rice, cereal, old buttons and sewing scraps
38. Run around the block 3 times
39. Paint your toes and fingernails
40. Go camping–or stay home and camp out in your own dining room.
41. Build with LEGOS or blocks
42. Make puppets out of lunch bags, old socks, felt, wooden clothespins. Put on a puppet show
43. Have a bonfire outdoors or in your fireplace and roast hot dogs and marshmallows
44. Write a letter to your best friend or cousin
45. Visit a shut-in or an elderly friend or relative in a nursing home
46. Pick wild flowers and take to someone you love
47. Make a double dinner and surprise someone with dinner
48. Sketch a picture of your house from the outside
49. Play educational computer games
50. Find a joke and tell it someone else
51. Make a piece of art out of objects you have around the house or yard
52. Sign up at your local library for their Summer Reading Program
53. Color a picture or write a letter to send to grandparents
54. Make a list together of all the things in your house that use electricity. You might do this when you lose power sometime.
55. Plant something
56. Enjoy a shopping trip for something little, but fun like the dollars store---a jar of bubbles, stickers, paper dolls, a matchbox car
57. Play store, library or school
58. Visit a petting farm. Milk a cow, help to feed the animals. Take pictures.
59. Play a new sport- badminton, volleyball, tennis, Frisbee, yard darts or ping pong
60. Tour where Dad works
61. Play hide-and-seek (inside or outside)
62. Help wash the car
63. Share a favorite movie with a friend
64. Draw a family tree on paper and complete it as a family. Add old photographs if available
65. Go jogging or take a walk together
66. Give each person a large piece of paper and take turns tracing the outlines of their bodies on it. Color in the outlines to look like you.
67. Jump on a trampoline
68. Go to the library
69. Gather a variety of leaves and identify them
70. Rearrange the furniture in your bedroom
71. Memorize something meaningful: a psalm, a poem, a passage from the Bible, the Gettysburg Address
72. Make a sweet treat
73. Fly a kite
74. Jump rope
75. Learn how to harvest veggies from a garden
76. Visit a friend
77. Make a summer healthy snack
78. Read favorite poems aloud
79. Put together a scrapbook describing a favorite vacation or any special event (pictures, writing, souvenirs)
80. If it's warm outside, turn on the water sprinkler and run through it
81. Make a lemonade stand
82. Water the yard, houseplants or flowers
83. Play with sand toys and trucks in a sandbox
84. Swing
85. Play a card game
86. Go to a ball game or play one---football, kickball, softball, baseball, basketball, soccer
87. Finger paint with chocolate pudding
88. Make a milkshake or a smoothie
89. Have a real tea party with some friends
90. Take a trip to an amusement park, a museum or a planetarium
91. Clean out your closet
92. Practice playing a musical instrument. If you don’t play an instrument, try learning to play one, maybe the recorder or the harmonica.
93. Make a yummy salad and eat it
94. Build a fort
95. String beads or fruit loops to make a necklace
96. Write and illustrate a short story
97. Build something out of empty boxes of all shapes and sizes. Oatmeal and salt boxes work well
98. Volunteer to help a neighbor for free—just because
99. Play with water guns
100. Make your own list of things of more things to do when you're bored

Thanks, sisters stuff

June 1st start your local library summer reading program!

No matter where you live--In Utah or elsewhere this is your reminder to check out your local library summer reading program today!!

1. For Weber County, Utah The Children's Summer Reading Program Registration Begins on June 1st from 10:00-9:00 pm (go when you can they won't turn you down on another day!)
Their theme is heros! Quoted: "We'll have fun activities about heroes from the past, heroes in our communities, animal heroes, and the hero in you. Read three or more hours and earn a prize. Enter to win weekly raffles. This program will be most enjoyed by children aged 3 and up. For more information, call your nearest library location"

Go here for more info. for Weber County library go here

**Weber County Libraries also have a teen summer reading program too**

2. For the Davis County, UT libraries they are offering a neat splash theme with some great activities to go along with their program.

Go here for Davis county, Utah summer reading program

3. The Salt Lake County, UT libraries summer reading program will start June 3^rd. Go here for more info.