any ideas for conkers????

franky

what has this got to do with moneysaving ???

cathy_3

what has this got to do with moneysaving  ???

absolutely nothing whatsover but its been an enjoyable thread so why worry

16011996

what has this got to do with moneysaving  ???

lots, conkers are free, and amuse children for hours, and cheaper than taking them to cinema, or whatever to amuse them. and its good for the kids to be out in the fresh air too. mulitple benefits.

cathy_3

ooh yes  your quite right

last night a friend of mine was saying it was her sons birthday on sunday and she got him lots of stuff  plus expensive things off the rest of the family     party costing a bomb  and a clown

the kids all vanished into the garden and spent the bulk of the day playing conkers with the dads drilliing them and putting the string through. (NO not the kids the conkers!)  dads ended up playing the kids  kids won and dads sulked lol

stopped them all drinking so much and everyone had a laugh

she said next year shes just going to put a big bowl of conkers on the table and leave them too it

kazaa_2

I would just like to say that took my 6yr old daughter to a funfair at a local race course and decided to persuade her to go into the park and round the lake whilst walking we came across some fallen conkers so spent a good hr collecting and opening them she was enjoying her self so much she totally forgot about the fun fair ...which saved me so much money we had a fab day ...so decided weather permittingcwe going in search of woods tomorrow with a picnic and the dog costing very little money saving day for me : ) x

calicocat

Spiders don't like conkers.....just thought I'd throw that in there....

WantAnOrange

We put a bowl of conkers in our Mud Pie kitchen in the garden as an extra 'ingredient', along with old pots and pans, big spoons, potato mashers etc. Keeps the kids amused for ages.

asparagus1968

I put a bowl of them in cloakroom to deter the spiders (keep my wellies in there).

PasturesNew

Conkers soon dry out and go wrinkly and boring.... but lob them into corners where spiders like to try to live and it should deter them.

Callie22

Probably not the most child-safe of activities but I remember making 'fairy furniture' out of conkers when I was little. We'd stick four pins or cocktail sticks in the bottom of one for a table, and then turn other ones into chairs by sticking four pins in the bottom and then three in a line on the top. We'd weave old embroidery thread or knitting wool across the top pins so you got a 'back' to the chair. It used to keep us busy for hours