Freebies and Savings for Earth Day

Savings.com has put together a great list of freebies that will be offered on Earth Day!  Here are just a few...

Free Youth Size Baseball Cap - Offer from Disney Stores, 4/22.

 "Disney Store is celebrating Earth Day with an activity families can do together to teach kids to recycle and keep unnecessary trash out of our waterways. Fight for a clean, healthy and sustainable environment and be part of the solution! Bring in SIX empty plastic bottles or soda cans to the Disney Store on Thursday, 4/22. Each Guest that successfully tosses the bottles into the globe bin will receive a FREE Friends for Change and Disney Store youth sized baseball cap, while supplies last! Baseball caps are made out of 100% recycled materials. Limit one baseball cap per Guest when they bring in 6 bottles/cans, while supplies last." 

Free Entry into National Parks - National Park Week, 4/16 - 4/24. Visit any of the 394 National Parks for free.

Earth Day Weekend Workshops - Home Depot, 4/21 - 4/23.  A variety of free workshops designed to help facilitate a "greener" lifestyle.  See site for details and workshop descriptions.

Story time for kids - 4/22 at Pottery Barn Kids. "Join us at 11am or 2pm for story time featuring tales about caring for the planet, as well as other earth-friendly activities.Throughout the day, we'll be giving kids a special gift that they can plant at home!"

Free Earth Day Projects For Kids - Offer From Kaboose. Free games, printables and crafts.

Free Lowes Build & Grow Clinic - Saturday 4/23 at 10am. Kids can build a birdhouse for free. It's suggested you register online since space is limited. Not necessarily an Earth Day offer, but feeding birds has to be earth-friendly somehow.

Earth Day Story App for Kids - Offer from iTunes. For iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch.


Go here to visit Savings.com and see the entire list. 

Free Coffee at Starbucks

In celebration of Earth Day,  April 22nd you can bring in a travel mug to Starbucks and receive a free coffee or tea. 

(at participating stores)

50-70% off on Fridays at Home Depot

Every Friday during Spring Home Depot will offer post an exclusive discounts of 50-70% off on outdoor items, lighting, rugs, fans, patio equipment and more. You will find these exclusive discounts on their Face Book page. Be sure and "like" their page to be included in on the discounts! 

Free Tree at Lowes on April 23, 2011

Head on over to Lowes on April 23 to get your free tree in celebration of Earth Day!

Kids Eat Free List

Great Kids eat free list on Cumming Local ... Go here for the full list.

Kid’s Eat Free in Cumming, GA – MONDAY

Atlanta Bread Company – 770.888.9921 – Buford Hwy – After 4pm
Beef O’Brady’s – 770.781.8803 – Freedom Pkwy – 4 to 8pm
Construct A Burger – 770.205.2448 – Post Road -
IHOP – 770.888.2911 – Market Place Blvd – 4 to 10pm
Sidney’s Pizza- 770.886.8999 – Vickery Village – 4 to close
Smokejack Midway – 770.781.8474 – Post Road
Tin Drum – 678.965.5915 – The Avenue – 4 to 10pm

Kid’s Eat Free in Cumming, GA – TUESDAY

Atlanta Bread Company – 770.888.9921 – 908 Buford Hwy – After 4pm
Beef O’Brady’s – 770.781.8803 – Freedom Pkwy – 4 to 8pm
Chick-fil-A – 770.889.5288 – The Avenue – 3 to 8pm
Chick-fil-A- 770.781.5256 – Lanier Crossing / Atlanta Road – 5 to 8pm
IHOP – 770.888.2911 – Market Place Blvd – 4 to 10pm
Laredos Mexican – 770.888.9894 – Peachtree Pkwy / Limited to 1 child per table
Summits Wayside Tavern – 770.886.4374 – After 4pm
Tin Drum – 678.965.5915 – The Avenue – 4 to 10pm

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Did you know that you can freeze your bread, cheese, butter and even potato chips? So if you find it at a good price... stock up!

Toilet Paper Roll Flowers

This craft was so easy and fun to do with the kids. I failed to take pictures of the steps, but it is very easy. We have plans to make more, so I will make sure to take pictures of each step. 

Supplies Needed:
5 used toilet paper rolls (you can also use paper towel rolls)
2 wire coat hangers
acrylic paints (your favorite colors)
florist tape
embellishments (I used some stones that I had from an old jewelry project)
wire cutters
quick dry Tacky Glue
clothes pins


First cut your toilet paper rolls into thirds. 


Next, paint these pieces your favorite "flower" colors. Make sure to paint the inside too. We liked putting different colors on the inside. Each flower can be made using either 4 or 5 "petals", so be sure and paint matching "petals" for each flower.  You will be ready for the next step once these dry.


Next, while the petals are drying, use your wire cutters to cut three long pieces and two shorter pieces of wire from your coat hangers. Hold them together with the tallest in the center and wrap the florist tape tightly around what will be the "stem" starting from the bottom. When you get about half way up, bend one of the shorter "stems" out to the right. Continue the florist tape for about half an inch and bend the other short "stem" out to the left. Again continue to wrap the florist tape until you get to the top. Now go back and wrap the shorter "stems" starting a the center. I found that wrapping the florist tape around the top and bottom of the side "stem" and them back around the main "stem" helped to hold it in place. Now you are ready to put your flowers together.


Next, now that your flower "petals" are dry you can start to put them together. Arrange the each flower in the pattern you like, you can flatten them a little if you want to use five "petals" on your flower. Now that you have the design that you like, add some quick dry Tacky Glue where the petals meet. I found that it is easer to do this one at a time and go around in a circle. Once they are glued together, use your clothes pins to hold them together tightly while they dry. You can add any stones or embellishments to the center at this time. Now just let it dry.


Once the flowers are dry, decide where you want the bottom of your flower to be. Add some Tacky Glue between two of the lower petals and insert the top of the "stem". Do the same for the other stems. I used clothes pins to hold the flowers on the stems as they dried. 


Now that everything is dry, take your clothes pins off and you have a great flowers to hang on the wall. 


** As an option you can cut a very thin piece of the toilet paper roll to make a leaf for the lower part of the "stem". We just painted our green and use Tacky Glue and a clothes pin to hold it in place while it dried.