Half Term On A Budget

With the start of my new freelance job, money has been quite tight this month and so with the arrival of half term we couldn’t afford for us to spend a lot of money.  Never one to turn down a challenge I decided to see if we could be creative and do exciting and engaging activities with minimal cost.

Aside from the family day out we had on Friday, which was planned and paid for in advance, we managed to have an interesting and entertaining half term for the grand total of £2!

I used a half term planner to decide what we would be doing in advance, Netmums have a great one here and I made sure that if any preparation needed doing, that I sorted it out the night before to allow us to just get on and do things.

I knew that it was important for us to get some fresh air each day because otherwise by about 4pm we’d all be going stir-crazy.  Unfortunately the weather forecast for the entire week was rain and aside from Thursday, that is what we had!  We tried not to let it put us off and did manage to get out for a little bit each day.

Here are some of the things we got up to this week, hope you can find some inspiration!

Crafts
Playdoh came in very handy when the weather was a bit too bad to consider going out and if I needed a quick stop gap activity.  The salt dough recipe I got from Nurture Store and it was brilliant as it only used up things I already had in my cupboard – result!