Comments on: Frugal Fun: Grocery Ad Playtime Menu (Guest Post)

By: Weekly Roundup #3

Weekly Roundup #3 — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:41:08 +0000

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By: Amee Pearson

Amee Pearson — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:32:59 +0000

This is such a cute idea! I will definitely use this one for my next playdate!

By: Katie Trott

Katie Trott — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:23:42 +0000

Such a cute idea! I love this little bit of fun “work” to keep my girl busy. She loves to cut and glue! Thanks for the fun!

By: Stephanie K

Stephanie K — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:26:30 +0000

I teach kindeegarten and found this a great way to teach word recognition! I will take note!!!

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:06:43 +0000

Cute idea!

You could also have older kids glue pictures in the shape of the “food pyramid” or glue them to a paper plate to show a balanced healthy meal, if you were working on nutrition.

becomingfrugal, I love your idea about making rooms out of furniture ads. Very sweet!

Liz

By: Erika

Erika — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:49:44 +0000

What a great idea! My daughter will love it. Thanks for sharing!

By: Marie {Make and Takes}

Marie {Make and Takes} — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:06:26 +0000

What fun extension ideas to go along with this. I love the idea to use this with learning a second language. Or then talking about how to exchange money!

Thanks for letting me guest post!!

By: Jen

Jen — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:15:32 +0000

This is a great idea. My daughter is 3 and we do a more basic version of this – she gets the Toys R Us ad while I clip coupons. She cuts out “coupons” and glues them into a little flip book so she has a nice booklet of things she likes to look at. She ads to it most weeks. I have to draw boxes around the things she likes so she has lines to cut on.
I think your menu idea would be a great “next step” for us once she matures a bit.

By: Tiffany S.

Tiffany S. — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:45:35 +0000

What a great idea!! My son is too young to do that right now but I hope I can remember it for later! Thank you for posting this!

By: Jaden

Jaden — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:43:04 +0000

Cute idea! I love it!

By: diana

diana — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:15:17 +0000

I love this! What a great fun idea!

By: Kathi

Kathi — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:02:41 +0000

For those who are homeschooling, you could extend this idea by having them “pay for” their meals for practice in counting money.

By: Becky

Becky — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:02:28 +0000

When I was teaching JH I did this with my students. I had them plan a thanksgiving menu, this was a great learning experience for them. When your kids are older you can incorporate the price of the meal using the ads also.

By: becomingfrugal

becomingfrugal — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:54:37 +0000

I used to love to do stuff like this when I was a kid. In particular we used to cut out furniture ads or pictures from old magazines, glue them on cardboard or posterboard folded in half, and stand them up as a “room” for our fashion dolls. It was a lot of fun to get to pick out the furniture and things to glue on for our doll rooms. Much cheaper than the doll houses and things they sell in toy stores, but it was really the fun we had doing it that I remember.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:41:48 +0000

What a great use for grocery ads! This can also be used for older children too if they are learning a second language. They can make a menu in the language and have the food to help them learn the words or make flash cards with the pictures of the food.

By: Roxanne

Roxanne — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:41:13 +0000

I let me daughter do this all the time. She loves it!

By: Short On Cents

Short On Cents — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:19:47 +0000

Only $1 for the starwberry shortcake boy I wanna shop there. This is a cute idea, thanks for sharing