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I’m a single parent with basic (non existent) wage. I have a 5 Year old daughter who is into EVERYTHING! Any ideas/tips would be greatly appreciated
Craft box home bargains have some good things for crafting
Make slime lots ideas online on google
Playdoh again can be made at home
I used to buy the large pots of kids paint and a roll of the plain wallpaper- the stuff thats like an underlay. We had some fun - putting paint on plastic plates putting our hand and feet in it and sort of walking but with your hands down too along a strip of wallpaper about 6 feet long. !
It goes on so long you beg for the end of the wallpaper roll !
Lots of nice walks, local parks etc. Save you boxes, eggboxes and tubes from the kitchen and you'll have hours off fun crafting with these. Get your. paint and bits from Poundland. Watch for things vastly reduced after Christmas nad put by for next year.
- Save up your recyclables for crafting.
- Check the freebie section regularly: www.latestdeals.co.uk/freebies
- There are loads of freebies you can claim for newborns/babies if they were younger.
- There are businesses that will set up trials for children's toys, all you have to do is fill out a short survey about the good and bad things your kid liked or disliked.
- Join all the free sites (local free facebook groups can be amazing or there is Freegle, Freecycle, the OLIO app, which offers free food and people giving away their items.)
- There are apps where you giveaway or swap children's toys (Young Planet is one of them)
- Jam Doughnut is an app where you buy gift cards and get cash back on gift cards (means you can get cash back on places you wouldn't usually like Amazon, then if you get your friends to join via your referral code, you'll get more money, same with most apps)
- Join GreenJinn, Shopmium, CheckoutSmart apps, for free food and drink items. You buy them and claim the items back, paid back swiftly.
- Saving money in every areas of your life will help overall.
- Check on the Gov website to see if you are entitled to any help.
- The best gift you can give your child is to teach them to save and to appreciate what they do have and not what they don't. It is okay not to have everything and all the top tech... this they will be grateful for in the long run.
Join the local library. A great resource for not just books but lots of free stuff too. Ask your school if there's anything going on she can attend. Are there any grants available from local charities?
Toy library is popular now too. Salvation Army do lots of kids clubs as do churches
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