GIVE - SAVE - SPEND

For Christmas this year, Bob & I decided we would create presents for our 11 grands that would help pass on our values. As a Financial Wellness Coach  Bob is passionate about helping people become wise managers of their resources. We decided to make the kids some "Give - Save- Spend" banks.

At first I thought I'd use old cheese boxes to hold the jelly jars, but they are considered "antiques" now and cost more than we wanted to spend. Who knew?!? 

Sooo . . . . Bob build some long narrow boxes for me, and I sprayed them with a gray prime

I used our printer and made a copy of all their names.

Then I used graphite paper (like carbon paper but not as messy) to trace them on the boxes.

Next I painted their names on and antiqued the  wood. 

I used chalk paint, but acrylics would work great, too.

OK - so 11 kiddos are ALOT! Five Girls and Six Boys

Then I made labels with some of our favorite money verses to put on the inside of the boxes

I bought Jelly jars and got special replacement slotted lids at JoAnn's to turn them into banks.

VOILA!


We did a very short teaching about what Grandpa
believes about money and gave them the banks.
Then we gave them each baggie of  money to put in their jars.

We made some great memories
and passed on some of our values in the process.
SUCCESS!