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Every day, I have the choice… do I spend my ‘free time’ cleaning or playing? I try to find ways to clean without taking too much time. Every moment you save means more precious time with your family. Keeping your home smelling great and germ-free doesn’t have to be a multi-step process. For this reason, I have partnered with Clorox to introduce Clorox® Scentiva™ products. They clean, disinfect and deodorize. With one less task on the to-do list, the next question you’ll need to answer is: How do I spend all the extra time I saved?
Our family LOVES to play cake wars, so I wanted to show you how to play today. It is a fun family activity. It does get messy, but like I said, Clorox® Scentiva™ is the key there. 🙂
Here’s how it works. You are the judge. Your kids are the contestants.
Start by cleaning and disinfecting the surface.
Step 1: Bake cupcakes.
We like to use our big flower pan to make big cupcakes.
Step 2: Set your table
Set the table with everything that you have at home to decorate. Candy, icing, chocolate, colored icing (we just dye our own) Set it out. I let each of the kids have a spoon and they use the back of the spoon to put the icing on (it makes it easier than a knife).
Step 3: Everyone picks a cupcake and the game is on!
They just start decorating. The goal is to come up with the most creative cupcake!
Step 4: Everyone picks what they want to put on it.
Remind them that they are being judged on creativity. 🙂
Step 5: Presentation.
Each child presents the cupcake to you, talking about how they made it, why they chose the colors & toppings.
They like to put them all side-by-side and let us walk by and look at them:
The kids have SO much fun with it!
When you are finished, grab your Clorox® Scentiva™ and clean up. It won’t take long.
These smell SO good, so you’ll be happy that you used it. It does the cleaning, disinfecting and deodorizing all at the same time, so it saves time. Plus, it helps kill harmful bacteria and viruses, which I don’t want with four kids! Now you can clean, disinfect and deodorize all in one step, saving you time to tackle the more important things in life. 🙂
You won’t have to choose between products that clean well & products that smell good anymore- Clorox® Scentiva™ does both.
So… Clorox & I wanted to offer you something to help you spend LESS time on cleaning and MORE time with your family! 🙂
DO YOU WANT TO WIN??? HERE IS YOUR CHANCE!
ONE LUCKY WINNER WILL WIN!
We are sending you a Baking Kit and this adorable Doughnut-making kit, so you can do Cake Wars & Doughnut Wars with your family. I am also sending you Clorox® Scentiva™ products AND a $100 gift card, so you can buy everything that you need to have your very own Family Cake Wars!
Leave a comment and tell me what YOUR favorite family activity would be… What would you do with your extra time?
Rules: Shipping to US only. We will be picking a winner using Random.org. I will e-mail the winner within 10 days. Thank you!
LOVE this idea! And I’m so glad something like Clorox figured out they should hop on the “good scent” train!
We love going on walks and to the park. “Park” is on the first 20 words to speak list with my two toddlers.
My kids and I love having board game night’s or on the weekends during the day when it’s either rainy or way to hot to play outside. The older kids love to help me cook and especially love to help bake, I love the idea of cupcake or doughnut wars!
I love this idea! a favorite activity that we do with our extra time is to set up a wash station for all of our plastic dinosaurs/ animals. We use a bunch of different brushes (nail/ tooth etc). So fun!
We love to take bike rides and go hiking when the weather is nice. On rainy days my almost 4 year old has been helping me cook and bake.
We love baking banana muffins. I use oat flour, bananas, apple sauce as the main ingredients. The kids get to grind the rolled oats in the coffee grinder, mash bananas with their hands, and scoop the applesauce in the measuring cup. My twins are 3 & the oldest is 5 so there is quite a mess after baking. Thank you for this giveaway!!
We would probably play outside more often!
My sons favorite right now is just a long game of tag, or in his case just chase lol
My family and I love to have game nights. We like to play Yahtzee and Quirkle with our daughters and our girls love when dad turns into “the hulk” and play wrestles with them!
I love the whole cake wars idea! My children would have a blast decorating cupcakes…the competition aspect would bring a new level of FUN!
My family and I love to play UNO and other board games. Often the board games are time consuming, so we don’t play them as often as requested by the kids
Favorite family activity would be smores at the firepit! If I had extra time, I would catch up on family photo projects!
I would love to just go on walks or bike rides as a family. Or play yard yahtzee! My daughter would love doing cupcake wars with me or some friends! Also, maybe some gardening or crafting. I LOVE crafting!
So cute. We like going on family walks.
Love the cake wars idea… and my kids would love the sugar! With extra time we might turn on the wii Kids Dance and have dance party time… or for outside time, we like to make driveway sidewalk chalk scenes that the kids can use to pose for pictures – like an underwater scene or outer space.