Save £000's on Extra Curricular Activities

Find out how you could save hundreds of

pounds on extracurricular activities for

kids.Stay tuned to the end to learn how

we save money on arts music sport and

other extracurricular activities. This

is Liz from debt-free mortgage free here

to help share tips tricks and ideas to

help you save money make money and live

that debt-free

mortgage free dream.

 Extracurricular activities for

children cheaply  - my first tip is

what can you actually teach the children

yourself ?why would you need to outsource

all of their extracurricular activities

when actually some of them are

things you can teach yourself. So for

example I teach my children a little bit

of Spanish - we have the duolingo app that

we do, I've just printed off a few things

and we're kind of learning it together. T

hat saves us money on language tuition

another thing that we teach our children

ourselves is self-defense so the there

are a number of videos on YouTube we

just get them to do little bits of

practice here and there and every time

we have a spare a couple of minutes

we'll do a little bit of Spanish or a

little bit of self-defense or teach them

our Internet safety anything that I

think is important we also have a book

called you are awesome definitely

recommend that and that's a book I'll

link it below and that's a book to build

self-esteem and to help children learn

about the importance of practice and not

giving up it's really really good to

really help our children so we did that

every now and again as well I also get

them to practice their swimming moves

regularly so swimming lessons are very

expensive

my children are self-taught and what I

do to help them get the rhythm practice

is just us and to sit off and practice

each stroke and again it's easier than

going to regular lessons and it means

that when they do get back in the water

with me they're much more likely to be

able to remember how to do the strokes

I've been doing this with each child a

half an hour to an hour a week

some check-in time with them it's great

to have some one-to-one time another

thing that we've done is think ahead

about what sports would be expensive so

when children of us to do sports I've

kind of looked into the cost of things

we also just say to them only do one

sport at a time so they have like a

Scouts activity per week and they also

have another activity sporting activity

per week there they can choose to do so

both of my children have chosen football

it's a really cheap activity for them to

do because they have just football in

the garden with some girls they can have

friends want to play and practice a lot

without having to have a really

expensive tuition all the time they do

get to go two nights a week and one game

a week of training so they do get plenty

of training but just generally I'm not

having to pay every night for both boys

to do an activity have a look and see

what's cheap in your area so it could be

that your area has a really good judo

class and that is cheap and really

really good could be that your area has

really good football facilities or

netball facilities so give them a choice

but steer them towards what's available

was good and cheap in your area I

definitely would recommend the scouting

movement there's also something called

Boys Brigade here in Scotland that's

quite popular that kind of think is some

spread of activities so they do tennis

and bowling and camping and all sorts of

activities it's not just focused on one

of the things that's a good way to get a

nice spread of activities it's quite

cheap as well my subscription is 35

pounds for a whole year keep looking out

for hand-me-down equipment in charity

shops so my children we only really need

football boots which they get for

Christmas thank you so you could ask for

presents for the equipment that they

need but keep an eye out in charge of

shops for things that come up that

people don't want anymore

and obviously it's going to be given to

charity as well remember to check and

ask for items on your local Facebook

selling sites and also check Gumtree and

set up an alert on gumtree

another great source of free and cheap

equipment is to work out if there are

older boys and girls doing the sport try

and prevent their parents and get into a

line where we pass down equipment

another thing you can also do a try

school fairs local community fairs

sometimes people put in their equipment

- things like that and it can be quite

cheap and the other thing is to ask the

charity shops and ask local shops that

take at secondhand goods then ask them

to keep the goods that you need for you

maybe leave a telephone number I try and

keep a running list in my phone of items

and equipment that I think I might be

needing in the next few months to a year

and that way I can always look for them

in the charity shops I know what sizes

I've got at home and I can also use it

if people ask for presents another tip

is to not buy branded goats so if I get

my children the lower branded products

they work just as well and it means that

I'm not spending money just on a brand

if they want to get the branded products

like the added asset and things like

that then they have to use their own

Christmas money or birthday money or

earn them somehow I don't like paying

just for a brand and it's a good lesson

to teach them early on another thing to

do is keep your car stocked full of

essentials so if you think you might

forget water and you might forget a

jumper or you might get gloves put them

into your car and make sure you stopped

always with things so you never have to

pay to buy these things we save money on

extracurricular music by having a look

at what we can teach ourselves we were

gifted a piano and we also found a

keyboard secondhand that works perfectly

by the way check your keyboard in the

charity shop and ask if you can return

other music like keyboards and other

musical items for a refund if they don't

work when you get them home

we've also found guitars and been gifted

guitars as well when you want to start

to learn how to play music with your

children there are a couple of YouTube

videos that you could watch to help you

learn how to read music and also play

the basics if you want to continue to

learn the music outside of school

another thing that you could do is

approach a music teacher as a group so

maybe there are a couple of other

children that want to learn music again

you could join together and see if the

music teacher will let you pay for the

price of one lesson between three kids

three children you could also try it

local universities music departments to

try and find students that be willing to

tutor this could cut costs a lot another

thing you could do is check out the

local library for free music lessons and

music activities and also remember

practicing at home is just as important

as having the lessons free music can be

found online and if you also approach

your school's secondary skills as well

as their primary skills they should be

able to provide you with music for free

for art again there are loads of YouTube

tutorial videos that will help you to

start to learn art and different

techniques with your children if they're

interested in art another thing that you

could do is check out local art centers

galleries museums sometimes also offer

free little art lessons and tuition for

art equipment again that's great

to suggest to other people for presents

and also have a shop around you can find

quite expensive art products in art

shops but you might find smaller

stationery shops and pawn shops have the

same kind of products for much much

cheaper my last tip is carpooling make

sure that you are in a group of parents

make sure you speak to the parents and

organize that you're not always travel

spending fuel on going to training so we

do that and we take once a week and the

rest of the week is taken care of and

obviously make sure you plan your time

when you're going to their practices and

extracurricular activities if you're

there make sure you have some activities

to do yourself maybe you could do some

surveys and make some money that way I

sometimes go for a walk so it saves me

on exercise time and in membership lots

of things that you can do to use your

time well when you're there I hope you

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