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Simple Ways to Make Your Weekends Count

Looking for fun family-friendly weekend activities?

Look no further as we've compiled a list with links to some of our favorite bloggers!

1. Volunteer as a family - Leigh Shulman - yTravel Blog

2. Spend quality time with your spouse - Jessica - Fantabulosity

3. Stay at a Texas resort - Amy Williams - Waco Moms Blog

4. Visit a new area in Texas - Cheryl Black - Austin Moms Blog

5. Establish a Saturday morning routine - Jessica Beer - Moms Without Answers

6. Create weekend traditions - Trish Mirchandani - The Happiest Home

7. Earn extra money - Anna - And Then We Saved

8. Sell things around the house that you don't need anymore - Michelle - Making Sense of Cents

9. Take your kids to a free DIY workshop at Lowe's, Home Depot, or Michaels or cooking class at Williams-Sonoma - Trent Hamm - The Simple Dollar

10. Visit a public library - Cameron Huddleston - Kiplinger

11. Have a picnic in the park - Jason Topp - WiseBread

12. Watch a minor league baseball game - Cynthia Hochswender - Parents

13. Research genealogy or create a family tree - All Pro Dad

14. Declutter a room - Sarah Mueller - Early Bird Mom

15. Have a family game night - Nedra McDaniel - Adventure Mom

What are you favorite ways to make your weekend count?

Let us know in the comments!

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Just Add Milk on the Weekends for an Easy Science Experiment for Children

Can you believe it? It is almost the beginning of the school year. This means that it is crunch time for our At-Home Summer School. Recently, we received the "Just Add Milk - Science and Art Kit" from Griddly Games. This is a great kit for our family because we absolutely love science (especially chemistry and physical science) and my father-in-law wants us to integrate art for our little one as well. This is why the "Just Add Milk - Science and Art Kit" was a great fit for our family!

This kit is perfect for your family to have on hand as a rainy day or a "much too hot to go outside" day. We definitely have those days in Texas. With this kit, you have to watch what happens when you JUST add milk to the color solution!

This kit includes the following items:

5 - heavy absorbency paper sheets
4 - 10ml bottles of food coloring
1 - 10ml bottle of liquid soap
1 - science and art activity booklet

This simple science and art kit is a color way to introduce science and surface tension. Each kit also includes multiple exciting at-home experiments for the entire family!

You can find more about company that created the "Just Add Milk - Science and Art Kit" by following @GriddlyGames on Twitter.

Here's a link to their product - https://www.opensky.com/griddlygames/product/just-add-milk-science-art-kit?osky_campaign=pdm

Have a great week and plan for the weekend!

Millennial Parents Teach Their Children about STEM with the Pinbox 3000

PinBox 3000 - Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Arts - @WeekendsCount

Our family usually struggles to finding activities that can engage mom, dad, and the kindergartener. Now, we will struggle NO MORE! We received an invitation to review the Pinbox 3000 and we were slightly reluctant to accept a DIY item. Boy were we wrong! It was amazing!

I was away for a weekend for a conference and my husband and daughter constructed and decorated our family's new Pinbox 3000! I arrived back home and it was incredible! We had a GREAT time creating and reviewing the product!

The Pinbox 3000 enabled our family to focus on ourselves and laugh during a very difficult time for all of us! Thank you Pinbox 3000 for the opportunity to review this product...this amazing product!

This post contains affiliate links to help you build your shopping list and travel list for your family. We are passionate about the product and the experiences listed in this post, but we also wanted to provide easy links you can click to purchase products for your busy lifestyle.

The Pinbox 3000 from is made from cardboard and it is one of the premier toys for parents and grandparents who want to introduce science, engineering, technology, and art to their children after school. This product enabled millennial parents to relive their childhood and relieve stress while having fun after a long day of work! This product is sturdy and will last a family for years!

Check out the Cardboard Teck Instantute's YouTube Channel!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp9P-Dxf6BC8h12LQDxfk_g

Have a great week and plan for the weekend!

Tune Into KERA Kids PBS - A 24 Hour Kids Channel for Families

Cartoons? All day? Sign our family up! We love to connect our antenna to the television and watch the over-the-air channels! In the past, we could only receive three to six channels and many of those did not include cartoons during non-morning hours.

So, our little one had to watch Netflix or YouTube during the hours that she could not access her favorite cartoons (i.e. - Wild Kratts, Nature Kat, Daniel Tiger, or Splash and Bubbles. Now, she has a chance to watch all of the shows at any time of the day (even if we have to watch up SUPER early one morning for a 6:00 am flight).

Our local channel, KERA, just released a new 24 hour kids channel (KERA Kids 24/7) that families can access through air or satellite. It is amazing and we will definitely spend many hours during Saturday and Sundays watching her favorite shows!

Here are the KERA Kids Channels within the North Texas Area (KERA, 2017):
Over the Air - 13.2
Spectrum Dallas — Channel 1268
Spectrum Fort Worth — Channel 182
Suddenlink — Available in select areas. Contact your provider’s customer care center.
Northland Corsicana — Channel 114
Northland Stephenville — Channel 114
Northland Mexia — Channel 118

Also, check out the PBS Kids website for amazing resources for homeschool families and parents who teach their children after school! - http://pbskids.org/apps/

The KERA Kids Morning Schedule (as of March 2017)
Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood - 12:00 AM
Splash and Bubbles - 12:30 AM
Nature Cat - 1:00 AM
Ready Jet Go! - 1:30 AM
Wild Kratts - 2:00 AM
Wild Kratts - 2:30 AM
Odd Squad - 3:00 AM
Odd Squad - 3:30 AM
Arthur - 4:00 AM
Arthur - 4:30 AM
Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman - 5:00 AM
Cyberchase - 5:30 AM

The KERA Kids Afternoon Schedule (as of March 2017)
Bob the Builder - 12:00 PM
Word World - 12:30 PM
Super Why! - 1:00 PM
Sesame Street - 1:30 PM
Sesame Street - 2:00 PM
Dinosaur Train - 2:30 PM
Dinosaur Train - 3:00 PM
Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood - 3:30 PM
Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood - 4:00 PM
Splash and Bubbles - 4:30 PM

The KERA Kids Evening Schedule (as of March 2017)

Nature Cat - 5:00 PM

Ready Jet Go! - 5:30 PM
Wild Kratts - 6:00 PM
Wild Kratts - 6:30 PM
Odd Squad - 7:00 PM
Odd Squad - 7:30 PM
Arthur - 8:00 PM
Arthur - 8:30 PM
Super Why! - 9:00 PM
Sesame Street - 9:30 PM
Sesame Street - 10:00 PM
Dinosaur Train - 10:30 PM
Dinosaur Train - 11:00 PM
Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood - 11:30 PM

Also, if you are located in the central Texas area (Aledo, Benbrook, Fort Worth, Granbury, Stephenville, Waco, Weatherford), here is a list of all of your local channels!

Daystar (KDTN) - Channel 2

Fox (KDFW) - Channel 4

NBC (KXAS) - Channel 5

Cozi TV (KXAS-TX2) - Channel 5-2

CBS (KTVT) - Channel 11

Decades (KTVT2) - Channel 1102

PBS (KERA) - Channel 13

World (KERA-TX2) - Channel 13-2

My Network TV (KDFI) - Channel 27

CW (KDFW) - Channel 33

Telemundo (KXTX) - Channel 39

TBN (KDTX) - Channel 58

Ion Network (KPXD) - Channel 68-1

Qubo Network (KPXD-TV2) - Channel 68-2

Ion Life Network (KPXD-TV3) - Channel 68-3 (One of Our Favorites!)

QVC (KPXD-TV5) - Channel 68-5

HSN (KPXD-TV6) - Channel 68-6

Here's a great resource for finding over-the-air channels in your area! - http://www.tvtv.us/

Have a great week and plan for the weekend!