Movies, Movies, Movies

Wow, check this out all my local friends: Celebration Cinema (including the cheap seats at Woodland Mall) has a Big Big Screen Movie Club. Fill out a form to become a member and get the card. Every 5th ticket you buy you can get a free popcorn, drink, or movie. For a limited time they are offering Sweet Tooth Mondays $1 for Raisinettes or Goobers, Double Token Tuesday (buy $5, get $5 free), Wacky Wednesday $1 popcorn, Thirsty Thursday BOGO on bottled drinks. My friend Autumn says you can only get credit for 2 tickets a day. So if you are taking the family, get a membership for you and your hubby.

Or if AMC is your movie theater chain they are offering AM movies for $4 to $6 a ticket depending on the area. Click over here for the details. Thanks My Frugal Adventures.

I shared this in an earlier post: Goodrich Quality Theaters is offering $1 movies this summer. There are 10 weeks of $1 movies in Holland and Grand Haven. There are some Illinois locations too. They are running from June 15Th to August 21st Monday through Friday at 10:30am. Here is the Kids Summer Movies.

As always, call first to make sure your theater is participating.

Home Depot

If you arent' headed for a parade on the morning of the 4th, I have something you can do with the kids in those matching Old Navy Tee Shirts. Head on over to Home Depot for their How To Clinic geared for kids from 9 - noon. The project of the day is a picnic caddy. The kids will get all the supplies free and the orange apron! Thanks to Macomb Money Saver for the tip.

Gerald R. Ford Presidentail Musuem

If you have a membership to the Grand Rapids Children's Museum, don't forget that you can also visit the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum this month for free. Just be sure and take your membership card with you. They currently have Carolyn Kennedy's dolls from her years in the White House and a quilt exhibit. So we went this morning and had a good time.

$1 Movies for the Summer

Goodrich Quality Theaters is offering $1 movies this summer. There are 10 weeks of $1 movies in Holland and Grand Haven. There are some Illinois locations too. They are running from June 15Th to August 21st Monday through Friday at 10:30am. Here is the link to Kids Summer Movies.

Free Days at the National Parks

The ongoing hunt for activities for the kids continues. We may be headed to Sleeping Bears Dunes for Fathers Day. The National Park Service is offering several free days to over 100 Parks this summer. There are many others that are free all the time. Who knew? Click here for more information and remember to leave nothing but footprints and take nothing but photos. Thanks Utah Deal Diva.

More Local Free Museums

Do you have a membership to any of the Grand Rapids museums? Don't forget the reciprocal months. The Prof's parents were in town and generously took us to the Grand Rapids Chidrens Museum. We quickly crunched the numbers and decided it was worth the extra $21 to make that a family membership. I was completely sold when told about the local reciprocal relationship with other Grand Rapids locations. May was the month you can also visit the Fredrick Meijer Gardens for free. The limit is 2 adults and 4 kids. Thankfully Mite is too young to need to pay admission. So we have been enjoying a little staycation this weekend. June is the Gerald R. Ford Museum, July is the Grand Rapids Art Museum, and August is the John Ball Zoo. There is information about this on the GRCM page, but not on the others. So call first and see if the museum you are a member of, or becoming one is participating in the Cultural Membership Exchange. I did some more checking and they seems to have the best plan for this.

Grand Rapids Childrens Museum
Gerald R. Ford MuseumGrand Rapids Art Museum
John Ball Zoo
Frederick Meijer Gardens

Free Museums and Free Bowling

Summer is coming! Isn't this our official kick off, cook out, parade watch, first sunburn, corn on the cob, watermelon taste of it? And after this weekend, I know I will be thinking: now what. I'm starting my summer planning now, with you on this blog. If you have affordable and fun ways to entertain the kiddos this summer....let me know. This summer I'm facing the challenge of entertaining Buck at 14 to Mite 1 and a half. My biggest challenge is that The Prof will be very busy with 2 summer school classes to teach, AP tests to grade, and jury duty. So, I have basically lost my very able and willing day time summer assistant. Not to worry, I have recruited him for evening and weekend assistance. And we have some fun time together planned as well.

Here are a couple things I've found so far:

Target is working with over 40 museums to provide free days. Click here for a list of locations and dates. While there aren't any listed near where we live, perhaps there are some where you live or where you are traveling. We enjoyed a free week of museums in Chicago a few years ago by making use of free museum days.
Thanks to Money Saving Mom


Another new find for me has been a free bowling program called Kids Bowl Free. Click here for a link to there site. It is free to join and your only cost when you bowl with these coupons is for the shoe rental. They also have a pass you can purchase for parents, but these are limited. I found this a couple of months ago, so I'm not quite sure where, but I think the thanks goes againg to Money Saving Mom.

I will keep you posted as I find them.