Summer Fun - Free Fridays at the Childrens Museum!

I love our local Children's Museum here in Cincinnati. My kids and I visit it frequently, and I even have passes ( they have great special rates around the Holidays for passes, by the way ).

So, I am extremely excited to see that they are again offering Free Fridays to everyone at the Cincinnati Museum. Make sure to call your local Children's Museum to see if they are offering any free admission days during the summer.

How does it work?

On any of these dates,

May 22
June 26
July 24
August 21
September 11


you can get into the museum between 4 and 8 PM and have access to all 3 museums ( Children's, Natural History/Science and History Museum.

The children must be 12 or younger to gain a free admission.

You can click here to read all the details.

Make sure you visit my webpage for Summer Fun in the left menu bar, too. I will keep adding to it as I find freebies for the kids this summer!





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Bank Offers - $50 Salem Five & $10 TD Bank

Welcome to this week's Bank Offer post!

Before I go into the details, remember to click here or go to my Bank Offers webpage at anytime to find out details about making money with Bank Offers. In addition, you will also see I list all current offers in the sidebars on that webpage. Feel free to click on any of the images to read details on receiving that Bank Bonus.

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Now, onto this week's Bank Offers!

$50 Salem Five Bonus

• Open a new Salem Five Star CheckingTM or Gold Star CheckingTM account
• Initial opening balance must be at least $100
• Direct Deposit required and must be set up within 90 days of account opening
• $50 deposited 60 days after direct deposit established
• Click here to read all details and sign up

Thanks to Danielle of Business Mommy for sharing this bonus offer!

$10 TD Bank Bonus ( Kids read 10 books this Summer )

• Kids read 10 books this summer
• Fill out this Summer Reading Form. Click here.
• Write down the names of the books you read
• Take the form to your nearest TD Bank to get $10!!
• Open a new Young Savers Account, or just have the money deposited into your current Young Savers account!
• Click here to get all the details on this program

Thanks to Heather at Freebies 4 Mom for the info on this great deal! I will be posting this under the Summer Fun webpage as well as the Bank Offers webpage.

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Regal Cinema - Free Summer Movies

On top of wonderful reading programs during the summer, movie theatres also offer freebies for children! And, this is by far one of my favorite summer programs.

Why would that be? Well, the movies are extremely expensive for a family of 5, and we put off taking our kids to the movies during the school year. I do this, because I know that every summer, I am able to take my children for free, meet up with my friends who are going too, and my children do not know the difference.

To them, the experience is the same. They are sitting in front of the big screen and enjoying a little time away from the pool and out of the sun, while catching up on some movies.

The movies are ones that were previously released, but even with that, many of them my kids have not seen yet. Or, if they have, there is just something a bit special watching it at the theatre.

So, here is the first post, of which I am sure there will be more, on the free summer movies available at Regal Cinemas.

Every Tuesday and Wednesday at 10 AM, the cinemas will be showing G & PG rated movies. But, remember, it does fill up. Seriously. Get there a bit early!

Want to see the schedule for your cinema this summer? Click here. You will want to select your state and then it will give you a list of locations you can choose.

I am going to be pulling my lists and putting them into my online calendar, so I am prepared this summer to quickly see what is playing on which days, etc.

Here is an example of a cinema near me:

• 06/09/2009-06/10/2009
  March Of The Penguins (G)
  Igor (PG)
• 06/16/2009-06/17/2009
  Kit Kittredge: American Girl (G)
  Star Wars: Clone Wars (PG)
• 06/23/2009-06/24/2009
  Everyone's Hero (G)
  Inkheart (PG)
• 06/30/2009-07/01/2009
  Space Chimps (G)
  Kung Fu Panda (PG)
• 07/07/2009-07/08/2009
  Charlotte's Web (G)
  Journey To The Center Of The Earth (PG)
• 07/14/2009-07/15/2009
  Horton Hears A Who (G)
  Firehouse Dog (PG)
• 07/21/2009-07/22/2009
  Wallace And Gromit (G)
  Evan Almighty (PG)
• 07/28/2009-07/29/2009
  Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Veggie Tale Movie (G)
  Alvin And The Chipmunks (PG)
• 08/04/2009-08/05/2009
  Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (G)

Don't forget to join their Crown Club online here, too. Although you won't earn any points for these free movies, if you happen to go to the movies at any other time, you could earn points towards free movies, concessions, etc.

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Kids Earn a Free Book - Barnes & Noble

Seriously, can you believe it? The free Summer Program are starting to show up all over the web already! I really cannot fathom that Memorial Day is a month away and then 3 months of vacation! I am so excited to have all day with my eldest again ( since this was his first year away from me all day )

If you remember last year, there were so many wonderful programs in the summer. And, some that are around all year long. So, I am going to switch my Tax Preparation button in the left side bar to a Free Summer Fun webpage and accumulate all the great freebies that will be coming our way.

So, to kick it off, here is a wonderful Reading Program courtesy of Barnes and Noble.

I LOVE reading, as you have heard me mention before, and so does my son. In fact, tonight as I tucked him into bed he asked if I would leave his light on and let him read for an extra half hour. How can I deny him when my favorite past time is reading before I fall asleep? So, I said sure.

And, although I am a fiction novel fan, he is all about Non-Fiction books. In fact, for quite awhile, he was carrying an Almanac around and reading it. Week after week I had to hear every detail about the center of the Earth, weather patterns, how high mountains were, etc, etc. He is so fascinated by all things, and it is so fun to watch him love learning.

This week the book he wanted to carry around and take to school was his Bible. And, he has been reading stories from in there. Of course, he has a lot of questions, as he reads, but it again just melts my heart to experience his excitement over reading, learning and understanding something new.

So, I am thrilled to have him take part in this Summer Reading Club. And, he is going to be extra excited when he realizes he gets a Free Book!

Would you like your child to take part? Here are the details:

• Kids ( 1st thru 6th grade ) read any 8 books
• Kids fill in a Summer Reading Journal that tells their favorite part of each book.
• Parents sign off on the Journal once complete
• Bring the completed journal to Barnes & Noble between May 26th & September 7, 09
• Receive a coupon for a Free Book ( select titles available )
• Only one per school age child
• Click here for all details and to print out your journal

Hope your kids enjoy!

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