A Fun Way to Give Money As A Gift

My little brother asked for money for Christmas this year.

I have a hard time just throwing some cash in a card, so I thought I’d take some inspiration from THIS GREAT POST and give him something profitable and fun.

First I took twenty one dollar bills and taped them together. Then I rolled them up.

I placed them in an empty square tissue box with the first dollar from the roll of bills peeking out the plastic flap.

The tissue box got wrapped up with cute paper and I cut a slit for an opening over the tissue box’s plastic top.

Next I added a ‘Pull Here’ tab to the first dollar and thread it through the slit.

Then the fun began!

It was so easy and so worth the fun of watching my brother pull that tab.

I think he was actually kind of nervous at first that if he pulled the tab something was going to pop out at him!

If you want to get even more creative, I think next time I would tape the first dollar bill to a tissue and include a note that said, “Don’t BLOW it all in one place!” 🙂

Happy Money Gift-ing! 🙂

About Happy Home Fairy

Julie Brasington is the wife of a South Florida Worship Pastor and mom of 3 boys. She writes at Happy Home Fairy where you can find easy craft ideas, FREE printables, simple recipes, holiday fun, thoughts on raising kids, and encouragement for moms.

5 Comments

lizlacy
January 5, 2013 at 3:15 pm

Fun stuff, I was stumped about what to give my 16 year old nephew, Money was what I came up with, boring…. I made it into a Christmas tree, took a Styrofoam cone shape and tacked them on even had a star at the top. It was a favorite, He also kept going around saying “see money does grow on trees” .

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Leeanne
January 5, 2013 at 3:17 pm

I had the kids make this for their grampa’s birthday a few weeks ago… so fun and easy and good taping skills! 🙂

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Diane Kucmerowski
January 5, 2013 at 8:13 pm

I did the same thing for my sister-in-law for Christmas too!!! I put a tag on it that said, ‘Don’t blow it all in one place’! =) She loved it!! I also gave another present of money for Christmas where I put single bills in balloons and then blew the balloons up, then we filled a rather large box full of the blown up balloons. He had to pop everyone of them to be able to get the money! Good times!

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Joyce
January 5, 2013 at 10:21 pm

LOVE this! You are so creative…I really enjoy reading your blog 🙂

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Becky Altman
December 17, 2013 at 7:22 am

All of these are really cool ideas. Nice to see people still taking time to be creative.

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