Entertaining Kids on a Budget

With summer coming to an end what better way to use those pool noodles than to make a race track out of them!  It's easy, inexpensive and the best part is, it keeps the kids happy :) 

Here's how:

1. Buy an extra large diameter foam pool noodle, or use the ones you already have!
   
2. cut the noodle in half with a serrated knife (one side than the other side or electric knife you can cut straight through both sides)
   
3. once the noodle is in two pieces lay them on the ground side by side
   
4. insert toothpicks where the two halves of the foam noodles touch each other
   
5. use as many toothpicks as need to hold the noodle tracks tight together
   
6. then with a need nose pliers clip the ends of the tooth picks flush to the noodle