Chuckee Cheese and Entertaining Your Children on a Budget

Entertain Your Family for Less Than $20

Carly Hart
Chuckee Cheese, a franchise dedicated to family friendly entertainment, offers an easy way to entertain your children on a budget. The secret to the success of inexpensively entertaining your children at Chuckee Cheese is that in order to save the most money, dining there should be avoided. If parents are honest, children want to play and trying to get them to eat while in a high excitement environment just doesn't work. Penny pinching parents who hate to see good food go to waste should plan to have a family dinner at home and stop by Chuckee Cheese for entertainment only after their children's tummies are full of food so that they can focus all of their energy on playing games and winning tickets.

Recently, my spouse and I treated our two children to an evening at Chuckee Cheese. Our first stop, however, was our PC, as the Chuckee Cheese site offers printable certificates good for 10 free tokens for special achievements that children reach, including potty training, good grades, being a good patient at the dentist, cleaning their room, and many more. Parents may redeem just one certificate per child per visit. Our son beamed as he proudly presented the cashier with his certificate good for 10 free Chuckee Cheese tokens and proudly declared that he was potty trained now so he got to come to Chuckee Cheese! Our daughter's certificate was because she finally kept her room clean for a week. As parents, we felt proud to see our children so excited to brag about their achievement and reap their rewards. Chuckee Cheese made it so easy to reward good behavior in a way that actually helped us stretch our entertainment dollars further.

Visiting Chuckeecheese.com prior to a visit can net parents a coupon deal on the purchase of tokens in a bulk amount. At our recent visit, we used a buy 50 get 30 free tokens free coupon and coupled with the two certificates worth 10 tokens each, we were able to spend less than $15 for 100 tokens. For us, skipping dining at Chuckee Cheese and just focusing on the games as entertainment makes Chuckee Cheese a perfect way for us to entertain our kids on a budget.

Sources:

www.chuckeecheese.com

Published by Carly Hart

One of AC's Top 1000 Content Producers, Carly Hart's interests include news, politics, parenting, frugal living and consumer related issues. A Featured Contributor in the Shopping and Fashion category, she...  View profile

  • Eat at home and then go to CEC to play games.
  • Stop by your PC first; download and print coupons to save the most money.
  • Print coupons and keep them in the car for easy access.
By using coupons and achievement certificates, parents can provide their children with 100 tokens for well under $20.

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  • Susan Anderson2/21/2009

    my oldest, who is ten, is losing interest in Chuck E Cheese, the younger two, seven and three, still enjoy it tho!

  • Sylvia Cochran2/8/2009

    Kids love Chucke E. Cheese! I personally believe that it is one of the circles of hell Dante failed to write about.

  • samefay1/27/2009

    Great article. We take our DD there for the games too. We really don't care for their pizza so we usually go somewhere we all like to eat and then head to Chuck E.'s for the games.

  • Ritu Lalit1/26/2009

    Sounds like an entertaining place. We do not have these eateries in my country

  • Agnes Farside1/26/2009

    My grandson loves Chuck E. Cheese.

  • K. Karl1/26/2009

    Coupons, coupons, coupons. I always have the strip of Chuck E. Cheese coupons in my purse that I clipped out of the newspaper. Fantastic article!

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