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20 Pool Noodle Ideas and Hacks – Who Knew?

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December 20, 2019 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Crafts, DIY, Hacks, Instagram, Pinterest, Social Media, Summer

Pool Noodle Ideas and Hacks

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I think one of my favorite things about this post is it completely fits the FRUGAL theme of Frugal Coupon Living. Pool Noodles are cheap (if you are lucky, less than $1), often anywhere between a $1 and $3 (depending on shapes, sizes, season). Take a look at these creative Pool Noodle Ideas and Hacks.

Pool Noodle Hacks and Ideas:

1.) Pool Noodle Trampoline Spring Cover from A Thrifty Mom

2.) Pool Noodle Wreath from Mission to Save (there are a lot of these on Pinterest)

3.) Use under a sheet as Pool Noodle Bed Rails from Small Fine Print

4.) Pool Noodle Bath Tub Toys from Bath Activities for Kids

5.) Pool Noodle Glowing Ninja Stars (or Flowers) from A Little Pinch of Perfect

6.) Pool Noddle Kiddie Car Wash from Mums Grape Vine

7.) Pool Noodle Luminaries from Create Craft Love

8.) Pool Noodle Lightsabers from Laughing Squid

9.) Pool Noodle Popsicle Postcards from She Knows

10.) Pool Noodle Ponnies from Crazy Little Pojects

11.) Pool Noodle Nunchucks from Creative Capital B

12.) Pool Noodle Quiet Blocks from I Can Teach My Child

13.) Pool Noodle Napkin Rings from Sew Many Ways

14.) Pool Noodle Bubble Wands from Create Craft Love

15.) Pool Noodle Race Tracks from Ramblings from Utopia

16.) Pool Noodle Beverage Float from Instructables

17.) Pool Noodle Obstacle Course from Blend Centralmn

18.) Pool Noodle Sprinkler from Ziggity Zoom

19.) Pool Noodle Boot Storage from Chaos Toorder

20.) Pool Noodle Door Stop from Red Delicious Life

Also check a look at this round-up of Rainy Day Activities – Pin to Pinterest.

Also check out these fun activities!

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Chocolate Covered Strawberry Carrots – 2 Ingredients

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March 7, 2015 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Crafts, DIY, Easter, Free, Frugal Living, Instagram, Pinterest, Recipe, Spring

Chocolate Covered Strawberry Carrots

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What a fun idea for the Easter Bunny – leave out some Chocolate Covered Strawberry Carrots using Orange Candy Melting Chips. This is a very simple 2 to 3 ingredients recipe for your little bunnies during Spring.

Ingredients:

1 lb Strawberries
8 oz Orange Candy Melting Chips
Orange Sparkling Sugar (optional)

Directions:

Gently fluff stems upward on strawberries.
Place strawberries in freezer for 10-15 minutes.
Melt chocolate by mucrowaving for 30 seconds, stirring and repeating until melted and smooth.
Get a piece of wax or parchment paper large enough to hold all strawberries.
Use a spoon to spread chocolate near the stem around the top.
Holding by the stem either dip or spoon chocolate over the berry.
Optionally you can sprinkle with sparkling sugar.
Place on paper.
By chilling in the freezer, the chocolate will set up immediately.

Enjoy!

Are you making these fun Strawberry Carrots for the Easter Bunny? Add these yummy Candy Dots to the Easter Basket! Pin to Pinterest.

Find these other Easter Crafts and Spring Recipes on Frugal Coupon Living.

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Easy and Creative Teacher Appreciation Gift Ideas

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January 17, 2021 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Back To School, Crafts, DIY, Free, Frugal Living, Instagram, Pinterest, Printable, Seasonal, Social Media

Teacher appreciation gift ideas with free printables. Ideas for each season of the school year.

Easy and Creative Teacher Appreciation Gift Ideas

Prior to blogging, I was a teacher and I absolutely loved it. Teaching brought about some of my most memorable years and I would go back in a heart beat if it fit my life and schedule. One of my favorite time of the year was spring for both teacher appreciation and volunteer appreciation week. It wasn’t getting huge gifts but it was the heart felt wishes my students gave that mattered most. By spring we had built meaningful relationships and when they would write me notes of appreciation, they always brought tears to my eyes. Cleaning out a cabinet with my daughters this past week, I came across some of those notes and half a dozen years later, they still warm my heart.

DIY Teacher Gift Ideas

As a former teacher and mother of five, let me help you achieve a simple and easy teacher gift idea with our Teacher Gift Tag Printable Set!

Is it a struggle to find a perfect Teacher Gift Idea? Creating an EASY, LOW-COST, ADORABLE gift for teachers has never been easier!

Take a look at our Teacher Appreciation Gift Tag Set. This set includes 12 digital gift cards. Download, print, and cut. One gift idea for every season. Our Teacher gift tag pritnables provide easy teacher gift ideas. Staying organized during the school year is hard enough!

One Year of Teacher Appreciation Gift Tags

Teacher Appreciation Gift Ideas

Take a look at some of these FREE and CREATIVE Teacher Appreciation Gift Ideas – I bet you will put a smile on your child’s teacher’s face!

1.) Keep Calm and Teach On Printable from Frugal Coupon Living.

2.) Teacher Appreciation Gift Card Printables from Skip to My Lou

3.) An Apple for My Teacher from Everything Etsy

4.) Donut You Know You’re the Best Teacher! from Design Dazzle

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5.) Thank You for Being An Amazing Teacher from Fabulessly Frugal

6.) Thanks for Being An Uh-Mason Teacher! from Lilluna

7.) I’m Doing Flips that You’re My Teacher from Simply This & That

8.) Thank You Bucket List from Landeelu

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9.) You are One EXTRAOrdinary Teacher from Sweet Metel Momments

10.) Thanks for Sparking My Creative Juices from Tatertots and JELLO

11.) We Can’t Keep it Bottled Up… from Moritz Fine Blog Designs

12.) Thanks a Latte for All You Do from Eighteen 25

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13.) You Are the Keys to My Success from A Girl and a Glue Gun

14.) I’m Glad You Were MINT to Be My Teacher from Crafts Unleashed

15.) Thanks for Helping Me Bloom from Skip to My Lou

16.) Hands Down You’re the Best Teacher Around from Eighteen 25

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17.) You’ve Been the Write Teacher for Me! from Simply This & That

18.) Thank You for Pushing Me to Do My Best This Year from Liz on Call

19.) Thanks for Making Me Feel Like a Star! from Tater Tots and JELLO

20.) Spread Love, Not Germs from Simply Sprout (Valentine’s and Non-Valentine’s Day Versions)

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We have seasonal teacher appreciation ideas too!

21) Halloween Fa-Boo-Lous Teacher Printable Gift Tag from Frugal Coupon Living (As seen in our One Year of Teacher Gift Ideas + Printable Gift Tags Set !)

22) Thankful for You Gift Tag from Frugal Coupon Living (As seen in our One Year of Teacher Gift Ideas + Printable Gift Tags Set !)

23) Fall Thankful for the Hands that Teacher Me from Frugal Coupon Living

24) Christmas Fleece Navidad Gift Tag Printable from Frugal Coupon Living (As seen in our One Year of Teacher Gift Ideas + Printable Gift Tags Set !)

We love our Thanks A Latte Printable. Pin to Pinterest. (As seen in our One Year of Teacher Gift Ideas + Printable Gift Tags Set !)

See our C is for Caffeine. Pin to Pinterest. (As seen in our One Year of Teacher Gift Ideas + Printable Gift Tags Set !)

Also check out our End of the Year Printable Gift – Thank you for PUSHING me to do my best. Pin to Pinterest.

Looking for teacher gift ideas, year around? Enjoy these Punny Teacher Gifts with Pun-Tastic Printables. Pin to Pinterest.

Don’t forget our FREE Teacher Appreciation Printables. Pin to Pinterest.

Candy Dot Tutorial and Recipe with FREE Dot Paper Template

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July 5, 2019 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Crafts, DIY, Easter, Free, Frugal Living, Instagram, Pinterest, Recipe, Spring

Candy Dot Tutorial and Recipe

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Candy Dots were a huge party of my childhood. My brother and I would sell lemonade on the golf course on Saturdays and then run to the corner store to use our quarters to buy these delicious candies. Being able to share these tiny candies with my children provides me a way to reminise and pass down this childhood favorite. Use this FREE Candy Dot Template and have fun making these timeless treats with your little ones.

Ingredients:

1 Pasteurized Egg White or 1 tbsp Meringue Powder
2 cup Powdered Sugar
1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract (optional)
Food Coloring
FREE Candy Dot Template (see below)

Directions:

If you are using meringue powder, use 1 tbsp meringue powder and 3 tbsp water in plave of egg white.
Whisk egg white until frothy.
Slowly add powdered sugar until incorporated and peaks form.
Add vanilla flavoring if desired.
Divide equally into as many bowls as you want to color.
Add one drop of color at a time to each bowl to achieve desire color.
Beat until color is uniform.
Transfer each color to a zippered sandwich bag.
Print dot paper template and place under each paper you will be piping onto as you do it.
Clip a very small tip off of one corner of each bag and pipe dots onto unprinted sheets.
Allow to set for 2 hours before cutting strips apart.

FREE Dot Paper Template

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Are you making these Candy Dots for the Easter Basket? Leave these Easter Carrot Rice Krispies out for the Easter Bunny! Pin to Pinterest.

Find these other Easter Crafts and Spring Recipes on Frugal Coupon Living.

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FREE St. Patrick’s Day Bag Topper Printable

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July 5, 2019 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Frugal Living, Instagram, Pinterest, Recipe, Spring

FREE St. Patrick’s Day Bag Topper Printable

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Another St. Patricks Day Treat – This one is PERFECT for kids. Grab the FREE ST. Patrick’s Day Bag Topper and makes a fun Kids Craft with the kids – You’re the pot of gold at the end of my rainbow!

Crafts Needed (per bag)

1 Cellophane Bag
1 Printed Tag
8 Rolos
30 Skittles (6 each of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Purple)
6 Mini Marshmallows

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Directions:

Insert 8 Rolos in bottom of bag.
Insert 6 each of purple, green, yellow, orange and red Skittles in bag.
Add 6 mini marshmallows to bag.
Fold your free bag topper over top of bag and staple in place.

Enjoy!

Take a look at these St. Patrick’s Day Recipes for Kids and Adults – Pin to Pinterest.

Find these other Irish and St. Patricks Day Recipes on Frugal Coupon Living.

Guinness Beef Stew – Pin to Pinterest
Guinness Bread – Pin to Pinterest
Guinness Cupcakes with Bailey’s Buttercream Frosting – Pin to Pinterest
Green Velvet Cupcakes with Baileys Cream Cheese Frosting – Pin to Pinterest
Rainbow JELL-O Squares – Pin to Pinterest
Lime JELL-O Cupcakes (also check out this Rainbow Cupcake) – Pin to Pinterest
Lucky Charms Marshmallow Stuffed Cupcakes – Pin to Pinterest
Chocolate Marshmallow Leprechaun Hats – Pin to Pinterest
Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies – Pin to Pinterest
Copycat Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies – Pin to Pinterest

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Easy Easter Carrot Rice Krispies Treats – 3 Ingredients

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February 7, 2019 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Easter, Instagram, Pinterest, Recipe, Spring

Only 3 Ingredients make these easy Easter Carrot Rice Krispie Treats. The kids will have fun with this spring craft for the classroom or an after school snack!

Easter Carrots Rice Krispies Treats

This Rice Krispies Treat Recipe REALLY excites me because they are EASY! Use pre-packaged Kellogg’s Rice Krispie Treats for these yummy edible carrots. As a mommy who is on the go, my favorite part is only two ingredients but a finished adorable treat in the end!

Also check out our Rice Krispie Treats for Every Season and Taste! You can get more creative Easter Food Craft Ideas for the Kids for the kids too if you are making a whole buffet of spring greats!

Ingredients:

4 Rice Krispie Treat
6 oz Orange Candy Melting Chips (like Wilton)
Edible Easter Grass or Rips Whips Candy

Easy Easter Carrot Rice Krispies Treats – 3 Ingredients

Author: Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living

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Ingredients

Scale

4 Rice Krispie Treat
6 oz Orange Candy Melting Chips (like Wilton)
Edible Easter Grass or Rips Whips Candy

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Instructions

Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
Cut each treat in half lengthwise, then cut each of them in half diagonally.
Take each piece and insert a toothpick in the flat end and place on prepared sheet.
Place in freezer for to minutes.
Melt orange candy by microwaving for 30 seconds, stirring and repeating until melted and smooth.
Pick up each by toothpick and either dip or spoon melted candy over each “carrot” to cover completely.
Return to sheet.
Place in refrigerator for 15 minutes.
Cut several 1″ pieces of the Easter grass or Whips for each carrot.
Take each carrot and carefully remove toothpick. Use the toothpick to enlarge the hole big enough to insert the grass.

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Directions:

First, line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside.

Next cut each treat in half lengthwise, then cut each of them in half diagonally.

Take each piece and insert a toothpick in the flat end and place on prepared sheet.

Place in freezer for to minutes.

Melt orange candy by microwaving for 30 seconds, stirring and repeating until melted and smooth.

Pick up each by toothpick and either dip or spoon melted candy over each “carrot” to cover completely.

Return to sheet.

Place in refrigerator for 15 minutes.

Cut several 1″ pieces of the Easter grass or Whips for each carrot.

Take each carrot and carefully remove toothpick. Use the toothpick to enlarge the hole big enough to insert the grass.

Enjoy!

Also enjoy these Easter Food Craft Ideas for the Kids. Pin to Pinterest.

Also enjoy these Rice Krispie Treats for Every Season and Taste. Pin to Pinterest.

Easter Neon Deviled Eggs – Easy Colored Egg Tutorial

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April 5, 2019 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Easter, Frugal Living, Instagram, Pinterest, Recipe, Spring

Dye the egg white, not the egg shell to create these Neon Deviled Eggs. This Easter egg dyeing technique creates a fun recipe outside your typical egg dye tutorial.

Easter Neon Deviled Eggs

Ready for Spring? Consider this fun Kid’s Food Craft, and easy Easter Neon Deviled Eggs Tutorial. Go ahead and boil your eggs, then instead of coloring the shell, peel them and color the egg white – this fun recipe is another way to “color” hard boiled eggs!

Go outside the box (or carton) with these other creative Easter Egg Dying Ideas.

Ingredients:

12 Eggs
1/2 cup Mayonnaise
2 tbsp Sweet Pickle Relish
4 tsp Mustard
Salt and pepper, for taste
Food coloring

Easter Neon Deviled Eggs – Easy Colored Egg Tutorial

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Ingredients

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12 Eggs
1/2 cup Mayonnaise
2 tbsp Sweet Pickle Relish
4 tsp Mustard
Salt and pepper, for taste
Food coloring

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Instructions

Place eggs in a pan and cover with cold water.
Bring to a boil, cover and turn off heat.
Allow to sit for 9 minutes.
Fill with cold water to stop cooking.
Remove shells.
Slice eggs in half lengthwise.
Remove yolks and place in a bowl.
Fill bowls with 1 cup cold water and 6 drops of food coloring.
Divide cooked egg white halves evenly between the different colors.
Allow whites to sit for 15 minutes or until desired color is reached.
Place Colored egg whites on paper towels to dry.
Mash yolks with a fork and stir in mayonnaise, pickle relish, and mustard.
Salt and pepper, to taste.
Mix until consistency is smooth and creamy.
Transfer mixture to zippered bag or piping bag and clip corner for piping.
Pipe mixture into cooked egg whites and refrigerate until ready to serve.

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Directions:

First, place eggs in a pan and cover with cold water.

Bring your water to a boil, cover and turn off heat.

Allow to eggs to sit for 9 minutes.

Fill your bowl cold water to stop cooking.

Slowly and carefully remove your shells.

Next, slice eggs in half lengthwise.

Remove yolks and place in a bowl.

Fill another bowl with 1 cup cold water and 6 drops of food coloring.

Divide cooked egg white halves evenly between the different colors – we did blue, green and pink.

Allow whites to sit for 15 minutes or until desired color is reached (longer for darker, shorter for lighter.)

Next, place Colored egg whites on paper towels to dry.

Move over to your yolks. Mash yolks with a fork and stir in mayonnaise, pickle relish, and mustard.

Add salt and pepper as needed to taste.

Mix until consistency is smooth and creamy.

Transfer mixture to zippered bag or piping bag and clip corner for piping.

Pipe mixture into cooked egg whites and refrigerate until ready to serve.

Enjoy!

Looking for something else cool? Look at these Easter Egg Dying Ideas – Thinking outside the carton! Pin to Pinterest.

Also enjoy these Easter Food Craft Ideas for the Kids. Pin to Pinterest.

St. Patrick’s Day Food Ideas for Kids and Adults

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May 30, 2020 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Crafts, DIY, Instagram, Pinterest, Recipe, Social Media, Spring

St. Patrick’s Day Food Ideas

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Looking to make St. Patrick’s Day Special? Check out this round-up of food to be used on March 17th. Ideas include breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and party ideas!

St. Patrick’s Day Food Ideas

1) Guinness Cupcakes with Baileys Buttercream Frosting from Frugal Coupon Living.

2) Copycat Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies from Frugal Coupon Living

3) Mint Blondie Bars from Simplee Thrifty

4.) Guinness Beef Stew from Frugal Coupon Living

5) Rainbow Lime JELL-O Cupcakes from Frugal Coupon Living (don’t forget St. Patrick’s Day Rainbow Cupcakes too)

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