Today I am flying solo with the kids like we usually do every once in a while. So after skating lessons this morning we headed home for a little lunch when I remembered that today there is a Kidgits activity at the mall. For those of you that don't know Kidgits is a kids club through our local mall. Actually they have it a bunch of malls own by the same group that owns our mall. I signed both kids up though MacKenzie rarely gets to reap the benefits. What I like about it is that the membership fee is $5 for a full year. When you sign up they give you a t-shirt and at every event there are premiums for members. Then once a month on the third Thursday at 10am they have some kind of activity. Usually it is a story time, but every once in a while it is something really fun like Gymboree. And then there are special activities like today that happen on the weekend. So I packed the kids up and headed to the mall. Once there we hit the sign in desk to collect our goodies. Today the premium was a canvas apron, lollipop, cellophane cone, and a cool little baking set. the first station that we hit was the lollipop bouquet table. 
This table had flowers that you could color then you poked your lollipop in the middle to make it a flower. Next we made candy bracelets 
out of shoestring licorice and fruit loops and then "trail mix" out of raisins, 
fruit loops, and Cheerios to put in our cellophane cone. Final stop on our activity list was the painting station. I was smart to keep that last because I didn't bring the stroller and I knew I would have to carry two aprons withe wet fabric paint so keeping that last was good. After we painted our aprons (I help Cam if you couldn't tell)
we got our treat which was a sample of Rita's Italian water ice. Best part of that was they were giving out a coupon for buy one get one free, which we very quickly took advantage of. So all told we have a very nice outing that the kids enjoyed and in the end it only cost me a total of $2.64 (the price of the Rita's I had to buy to get one free). I get so jazzed when we can come up with something cheap and easy (no clean up on my part) for the kids to do. To add to our cheap date we will be heading off to one of Kenzie's friends softball game (also free).
This table had flowers that you could color then you poked your lollipop in the middle to make it a flower. Next we made candy bracelets out of shoestring licorice and fruit loops and then "trail mix" out of raisins, fruit loops, and Cheerios to put in our cellophane cone. Final stop on our activity list was the painting station. I was smart to keep that last because I didn't bring the stroller and I knew I would have to carry two aprons withe wet fabric paint so keeping that last was good. After we painted our aprons (I help Cam if you couldn't tell) we got our treat which was a sample of Rita's Italian water ice. Best part of that was they were giving out a coupon for buy one get one free, which we very quickly took advantage of. So all told we have a very nice outing that the kids enjoyed and in the end it only cost me a total of $2.64 (the price of the Rita's I had to buy to get one free). I get so jazzed when we can come up with something cheap and easy (no clean up on my part) for the kids to do. To add to our cheap date we will be heading off to one of Kenzie's friends softball game (also free).
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looks like a really fun time!
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