After six months of breastmilk and 8 months of formula, we're moving on to cow's milk in our house which seems like a bit of a milestone. We are on our very last container of formula and we can't think of a better use for it than this cute and simple kid's bank (to keep all the money we'll save not buying formula!). You can use any kind of can of course - read on for more details.
This project is Jackie's of Avocado & Papaya (remember her beautifully colorful home?) who made this for her son, Graham. She covered her container with a map from an atlas so there's no need to go out and buy fancy paper (unless you're looking for an excuse to in which case go right ahead). How about pages from a field guide like Karen's birdhouses? Or some of your kids' art?
Follow the link to Avocado & Papaya for her easy tutorial and look around - Jackie's always cooking up neat crafts and doing fun things with her boys.
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when I had my son in 2005, my dad started mailing a $5 bill for him in every letter (my dad writes frequent letters...yes he still writes letters and so do I). So I made a bank out of an old oatmeal container, covered the outside with woodgrain contac paper, cut a slot in the lid for the money, drew a dollar sign on the outside, etc. My little boy loves playing with it, taking out the dough and folding it and stuffing it back in the slot!
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My daycare provider loved the empty containers. She stored different types of toys in them, makes rattles out them, have kids guess the contents, etc. One of my friends cut a slot in one, and using old juice tops (the metal kind), had a homemade sorting toy she would tote around. I also recommend doing the same with Trader Joe's coffee containers.
We use ours for storing compost we're going to take to the bin.
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Cute. We made our final formula cans into drums.
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