It is Craft Time

It is so much fun to color and paint. But it is more fun to do that on your hat! Or at least that is what many kids think. Here is a fun project to let your kiddos express their own sense of style.

Wallaroo has the Art Hat kit that encourages activity and helps develop fine motor skills. The kit contains an adjustable white microfiber bucket hat with a contrasting color under the brim, six nontoxic fabric paints, and a paintbrush.

I know that watching this hat being designed and painted was fun for me. Seeing how the time was taken to see just what pattern was wanted and when eyes light up as it all comes together. It may not be a work of art to all but it was a work of art to us. We added pins to decorate the hat too. You could do puffy fabric paints, self-adhesive felt and stick-ons.

The one we are decorating is for a 2-5 yr old but the have ones for a 5-7 year old too. And not only does this hat become a one-of-a-kind masterpiece it also has an UPF of 50+. The Ultraviolet Protection Factor (UPF) shows how well a fabric protects your skin from solar UV. But remember, a Wallaroo hat only protects the skin it covers. Safeguard the rest of your body by wearing sunglasses and sunscreen.

Where Did You Get Those Peepers?

Time to save on eyeglasses. Yes there is a great way to save even here.

Image by bedroom.eyes via Flickr

You can buy stylish prescription glasses online from $8. There is a huge selection of frames, with single vision lens, sunsensor lens, tinted sunglasses lens, bifocal lens and progressive lens. The secret for these low prices is that they only sell their own manufactured frames.

Check it out here for yourself.

Complete Single Vision Eyeglasses starting at	$8.00
Complete Bi-Focal Eyeglasses Starting at	$25.00
Complete Progressive Eyeglasses starting at	$37.00
Anti Scratch coating	Free
UV protection	Free
Lens Edge polishing and Beveling	Free
Upgrades
Premium Photochromic lenses for (Clear indoors, darkens outdoors in sunlight )	$39.00
Upgrade to 1.61 index lenses for	$17.00
Upgrade to 1.67 index lenses for	$37.00
Premium anti reflective coating	$4.95
Sunglass color tint coating (7 available)	$4.95

And shipping and handling is a flat rate of $4.95 per order, no matter how many glasses you ordered. Pretty impressive? I think so.

I know that this whole house hold has to wear glasses. When you have to purchase 4 or more pair a year then it adds up to $1,000.00 or more a year. Cut that down to $77.00 a year for 4 of us. That is a savings of $933.00 a year. Believe you me that kind of savings adds up before you can sneeze. Heck it is a vacation in itself. SO....make sure you pop over to pick out your glasses online.

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