Creative Coupon Clipping

I have always had intentions of clipping coupons from the Sunday paper (and putting them into my nicely organized photo-album-coupon-book, thanks to Nicole at Being Frugal is Fabulous!), but time seems to escape me! I usually have laundry or work (or blogging :) or something pressing to do during precious nap-times, so it just doesn't happen. When the kids are awake, they want to 'help', and as much as I love them, sometimes it just doesn't help. I decided today to finally tackle my pile of Sunday ads WITH the kids awake, and here is how it worked: I cut coupons from a page, then put the 'scrap' in a pile for the kids. They each had their safety scissors and I instructed them to cut out the faces in the 'scrap' pictures. That kept them busy while I sorted and cut ads, and they didn't mess with the ones that I was using (scissor-time at our house is a novelty - after the many self haircuts, scissors are locked up tight :). When I was done clipping, I helped them cut some more faces, then we sorted them (today McKinley chose to sort by gender), and they each got a piece of paper and a glue-stick and glued their cut-out faces to make a collage (Mason used the boys' faces, McKinley used the girls' faces :) while I put my coupons in my handy coupon book. Sounds silly, but it was actually fun! I think we'll make this a weekly activity, there are so many things that they could cut out to change it up and teach my kids; animals, clothes, hands, cleaning products, hygiene products, I could go on (but I'll spare you :). Anyhow, I just thought I'd share in case anyone else has coupon clipping challenges. :) Have a wonderful weekend!They were so proud of their collages, they insisted on hanging them on the fridge right away! Hmmm... I wonder which one belongs to which child? :)