Money-Saving Tip + Fun Kid’s Project: Make Your Own Character Juice Boxes

  Whenever we go down the juice aisle at the store, ALL I hear about are the “Lightning McQueen Juice Boxes”.   But the “Lightning McQueen Juice Boxes” are $3.50-$4.00 for a pack of eight.  We don’t get those often.  A couple weeks ago, I was able to snag 10 packs of Minute Maid for $2.00 each (a MUCH better value, obviously.)

Bug was disappointed that I said no, again to his choice of juice boxes.  So when we got home, I decided to cheer him up a little bit.  He is after all, 3 years old and doesn’t understand coupons, sales and saving money.

So when we got home, I googled Cars 2 coloring sheets and found some free printables.  I saved them to my computer and printed them as wallet sized images.  (Just as if you we were printing regular pictures – your built in photo printing software will have the wallet sized image option.)

I cut them out and let Bug color them and glue them to their juice boxes.  Just a regular glue stick was sufficient.  He was so proud of his juice boxes.  He kept wanting to open the fridge to look at them!  ;)

Have you ever come up with a frugal way to appease one of your child’s wants?  :)