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Earn a £5 voucher and clear out your clutter !

Oct 252011

As any parent will tell you, they always seem to have items that their children have outgrown or no longer need that they would like to see go to a good home. Now parents can turn these items into a £5 M&S voucher.

The website www.mygyko.com which enables you to sell, swap or giveaway to other parents is offering a £5 M&S voucher when you list 5 items on the site by the 31^st October.

Parents who are looking for ways to earn some extra cash will find this an ideal place to sell outgrown uniforms and sport kits that are filling up their cupboards and garages. With the added incentive of earning a £5 voucher for listings made by the end of October, this half term is the perfect time for parents to de-clutter and sort out the items that their children no longer require.

With the site free to use for both the parents listing items and the parents acquiring items now is the perfect time to get listing.

Don’t keep GYKO a secret though help spread the word and you could earn another M&S voucher. Pass on the email addresses of 5 friends and you will receive a £5 M&S voucher.

It’s the new way to buy, swap, sell or give away unwanted children’s ’kit’ – from school blazers to boots, uniforms to unitards and trainers to toys.

GYKO is the free online local community marketplace for listing used, second hand, nearly new and pre-owned:

School wear
Dance wear
Science equipment
Clothes
Books
Sports equipment
Musical instruments
Audio equipment
In fact anything that your kids no longer want, need or can fit into!

So don’t waste money buying expensive new kit – get bargains on GYKO.

The free, friendly, fun alternative to eBay!

Cheap children’s activites for a rainy day

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Aug 312009

With the weather changing I thought I would write a quick post with some of my favourite rainy day activities that don’t need to cost the earth. I have linked to some websites for you so you can get lots more ideas but the 3 below are my favourites.

Homemade play dough

This is really easy to make and the making is part of the fun. Try and split the dough into a few pieces if you have more than one child and they can each make their own colours. It keeps well in a sealed container in the fridge, you may need to knead it and add a little more flour when you take it out.

Your will need:

3/4 cup of salt
1 cup of flour
1 tablespoon of oil
3/4 to I cup of boiling water from the kettle.

Mix the dry ingredients together and add the water. Start with 3/4 of a cup of water and add more as required. Add a few drops of your favourite colour to the water or you can knead it in later if you want a few different colours.

Paper cutting

There are lots of sites with templates for you to use. I would suggest starting with little people or snowflakes and see how it goes! Paper aeroplanes are also ever popular.

http://www.scissorcraft.com

http://www.papersnowflakes.com

http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/origami_for_kids.htm

http://www.paperairplanes.co.uk - Lots of instructions and videos for the little ones to watch.

Sports Day

This is my daughters favourite rainy day activity. We set up an obstacle course in the house, they make a slide off the spare bed and generally get rid of excess energy.

Before you start you can do some arts and crafts and can print out a great set of badges and medals from cbeebies and their fimbles site here. You can colour them in and decorate the winners trophy.

Some of our favourite games are:

An obstacle course with a blanket to crawl under, chairs to climb over and stairs to bump down on bottoms. You can tailor this to the age of your children and their abilities.
Skittles with empty plastic bottles and beanbags.
Beanbag throwing into baskets and pots.
Musical pots and pans (if you can stand the noise!)

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Earn a £5 voucher and clear out your clutter !