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Mum’s lollipop stick idea means she’s never stuck keeping kids entertained

EVER run out of ways to entertain your kids? A savvy mum has come up with a genius solution.

Claire Marie revealed her lollipop stick idea that means she's never stuck for activities.

Claire Marie has revealed her savvy lollipop stick hack for keeping her kids entertained
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Claire Marie has revealed her savvy lollipop stick hack for keeping her kids entertainedCredit: Claire Marie
Yellow sticks are free activities, and red ones are the priciest
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Yellow sticks are free activities, and red ones are the priciestCredit: Claire Marie

Taking to the Facebook group , she said: “Something I had to invent yesterday.

“Two children that couldn’t decide what to do with our afternoon….if one chose something the other would disagree. 

“So, I got lollipop sticks and wrote some ideas on them. 

“I colour coordinated them too.”

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Claire explained how yellow sticks are free activities, green ones will cost very little, orange sticks are medium, and red ones are on the more expensive side.

Ideas range from the park or forest for free fun, to an aquarium or theme park for pricier options.

Activities in the middle include a farm, museum or ice skating.

She continued: “Put them in a cup and either yourself or the children can take turns in picking one. 

“With them being coloured you can always take out the red/orange ones if you don’t fancy spending much money.

“Edit *zoo is green for us as we are members, soft play is on orange because entry, plus food plus parents have to pay to get in some of them.

"Swimming is Orange because it could be water parks.*

“Obviously everyone’s colours will be different. Just sharing what I did.”

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Many mums were highly impressed with the idea, with one saying: “Brilliant idea.”

Another joked: “Love it that that yes day is in the expensive group. You know your kids so well.”

And a third commented: “I love this idea… definitely going to steal this.”

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