Folding Dollars, Other Money Origami, Money Leis

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Date Posted: 21:49:55 03/04/04 Thu
Author: jacksmum
Subject: Butterflies from money

I just made a couple of these for my niece's birthday - thought it was a novel way of giving money.

Dollar Bills Butterfly
http://www.allfreecrafts.com/homemade-g ... rfly.shtml

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[> Re: Butterflies from money -- miel, 12:17:37 03/05/04 Fri [1]

Nice, wonderful for the grandkids, thanks for posting. MIEL

[> Re: Butterflies from money -- fauxma, 16:28:24 03/05/04 Fri [1]

nice touch Sue... now how can i do that with my 1$loonie coin... and the 2$toonie coin..... only bill starts at 5... crazy canuks huh? thanks for sharing..
roflth(rolling on floor laughing terribly hard)
Annie in Canada

[> Re: Butterflies from money -- jacksmum, 17:50:40 03/05/04 Fri [1]

LOL Annie I had the same problem - $5 is our lowest note too so definately not a gift i'd make too often.
Sue

[> Re: Butterflies from money -- Marie, 18:42:54 03/05/04 Fri [1]

RE Loonie & Two-ies ...
I don't have anyhere to play with but is there an origami fold that they would fit in? Maybe one of the origami stars? I really like twoies...where are neat with teh 2 diff meatal tones

[> Re: Butterflies from money -- miel, 19:08:22 03/05/04 Fri [1]

Fives are good the kids can't buy anything under that, cheaper than some of the candies we can buy for them at Easter, or there birthdays.

[> Re: Butterflies from money -- jacksmum, 19:16:10 03/05/04 Fri [1]

Yes but Miel the wings on the butterflies look better when two different colored notes are used so the cheapest I can do them is $15 - I just sent my niece 2 of them for her birthday - had to post it so I placed the butterflies inside a silk bag then put the bag in a bigger decorative box then wrapped it all up so the unwrapping becomes part of the fun.
Sue

[> Re: Butterflies from money -- Judy R, 04:38:17 03/18/04 Thu [1]

I know this is not the paper butterfly everyone is looking for, but this is a real neat one, I made one for my grandson, and he loved it so much he didn't want to spend it, so I had to make him one out of $1 bills to keep.
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Video Folding U.S. Dollars into Butterfly

[> Re: Make a dollar bill butterfly -- Linda Ohio now GA, 15:49:27 07/14/10 Wed [1]

Here is an excellent video showing exactly how to do it. It's much easier to "see" how it is done, than "read" how it is done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETx-PSMY-ik

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Re: $ gifts -- Tina, 16:16:47 07/05/03 Sat [1]

http://members.cox.net/crandall11/money/

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Date Posted: 21:08:51 06/16/03 Mon
Author: craftylynn
Subject: just wondering

I have a niece that is graduating for high school andi am wanting to give her 20 dollars but i wantto do something unquie with it as there will be lot of people at this party any ideals and maybe i can get some orders for some other things

[> Re: just wondering -- gingergirl, 08:38:23 06/17/03 Tue [1]

thanks so much for posting this...but we have a lot of these sites we were are looking for freebie directions. If you come across these could you please post that as well.
thanks,
gingergirl

[> Re: just wondering -- jacksmum, 21:24:14 06/16/03 Mon [1]

I don't know if you can sew but maybe a little teddy bear dressed in a graduation cape and hat, a piece of paper rolled up and tied with ribbon under his arm diploma)and a saying like "Hats off to you" and when you remove the hat the $20 is inside.
Sue

[> Re: just wondering -- ShirleyT, 21:38:34 06/16/03 Mon [1]

Craftylyn, My DD graduated this weekend and I saw the cutest thing there. One graduate was wearing a Hawaiian lei made from money. I was going to post asking how to make it so does anyone know?

I guess you could use a cheap lei from Dollar Store as a base to start on or just a piece of string or whatever. There were pieces of red cellophane mixed in with dollar bills and each piece was folded and wrapped around it to look like a flower. They were all pushed together so all you saw was the green dollar bills and red cellophane "flowers".

Really cute. Maybe someone has directions!

Hugz,
Shirley

[> Re: just wondering -- gingergirl, 06:07:07 06/17/03 Tue [1]

CraftyLynn
How about the dollarbill roses? You could do them from new 1 dollar bills.
Shirley we looked for 2 days for a lei resource that was free and couldn't find one...hopfully someone will see this and know where we can get freebie instructions.
gingergirl

[> Re: just wondering -- A lei site, 06:13:49 06/17/03 Tue [1]

http://www.leisofhawaii.com/money.htm

[> Re: just wondering -- Celina, 13:01:14 06/17/03 Tue [1]

I found these directions the other day browsing on the craft forum at about.com. No picture!
Hope they help.

There are two types of Money Leis you can make.
One is a Coin Lei(1), the other is a Bill Lei(2).
(1)If you want to make a coin lei you will need:
Coins
Colored cling wrap ( plastic wrap)
Ribbon
Cut the plastic wrap into small squares (size depends on the number/size of coins you are going to use.)
Each bundle should contain the same coin denomination (all pennies, all dimes, all nickels, etc).
The number of coins in each bundle, in general, should be: Pennies or Dimes: 3 to 5 Nickles or Quarters: 2 to 4 Half or Silver Dollars: 1
Place the coin(s) in the center of the wrap square, bring the edges up to form a bundle.
You can then use a long strand of ribbon, and knot the bundles together on that strand. Or,the easier way, is to use a short strand of ribbon for each bundle leaving tails, then connect all the bundles together with the tails you left. (number of bundles determines the overall size of your lei).
Using either method: Tie the bundles with the ribbon very tight. The bundles should be right next to each other in succession (in a tight group). Use as many of these bundles as you wish the length of the lei to be. Once you have enough length, knot the two ends together. If there is a space left at the two ends, you can use larger ribbon for a bow to fill in the void. (2) To make the Bill Lei, you need:

Bills (of whatever denomination you wish to use - of course using ones would be the cheapest!)
Ribbon
Fold the bills into fans. (Lay the bill flat, lengthwise. From the bottom, fold the bill onto itself, about a quarter of an inch. Turn the bill over and fold that same section onto itself again. Turn over and repeat, then once more. Next, with the ribbon, knot the center of the folded bill (leaving enough length on the tails to link the sections together). Make as many of these "fans" as you need for the length of your lei. Tie all of these fans together using the ribbon tails you left on each fan. They should be right next to each other, evenly spaced. All of the fans should face the same way, not criss-cross.
Once you have enough length, tie the remaining two ends together. Then, pinching the center of each bill,fan out the ends of the bills (they will look like bow-ties). *The bill lei usually takes about fifty bills to make, so the coin lei would be cheaper (depending on which coin you use and the number of coins in each bundle).

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Folding Money for Gifts

Date Posted: 11:14:11 12/23/06 Sat
Author: PattyWV
Subject: LINK:Folding Money as Gifts

I'm doing a money tree for the little boys I babysit for,and wanted something foldable.
I found this http://members.cox.net/crandall11/money/
I used a little Christmas tree from dollar tree and the mini ornaments.
I'm attaching money folded as fans and bowties.
I was thinking the Christmas tree would be great taped in a card.
You could use any denomination you wanted.

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[> Re: LINK:Folding Money as Gifts -- KPWog, 12:25:43 12/23/06 Sat [1]

What a great idea Patty. I know they just love it. Thank you for sharing.
Barbara

[> Re: LINK:Folding Money as Gifts -- carmelita, 20:33:11 12/23/06 Sat [1]

Thanks for posting this site Patty. I have several origami books using dollars but have been looking for the little elf boots for the longest.

Bought a pair about 10 years ago at a show and the fellow was charging $5 a pair. He used that rubbery glue that you can peel off without damaging the article and glued a narrow piece of red ribbon to the inside top of each boot so you can drape them over a christmas tree branch. Then he glued a little red bow to the top of the boot on the front.

One of my friends took my boot apart and taught herself how to fold them and that's what she gave out at Christmas that year. She tried teaching me, but to no avail.

Thanks again for sharing and Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Hugs,
Carmen

[> Re: LINK:Folding Money as Gifts -- PattyWV, 09:08:17 12/24/06 Sun [1]

Carmen thank you for sharing that idea.
Sounds really cute.
I'm hoping the hot glue peels off okay...lol
Merry Christmas to you and your family.

[> Re: LINK:Folding Money as Gifts -- Huskerfan, 10:54:38 12/24/06 Sun [1]

I wish I would have seen this yesterday. I was hunting all over for a little box. I will have it next time. Thanks again.
Linda

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Money Bracelet

Date Posted: 03:47:14 12/23/10 Thu
Author: Sherron
Subject: Money Bracelet

http://www.bystephanielynn.com/2010/12/ ... money.html

Archiver's Note: For money roses, see this thread:
http://www.craftsayings.com/forum/viewt ... 4681#24681

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Make Money Leis for Gifts

Date Posted: 12:09:37 08/26/11 Fri
Author: Sherron
Subject: Money Lei

http://yourhomebasedparties.com/graduation-lei-669

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[> Re: Money Lei -- Alma, 19:35:06 08/26/11 Fri [1]

This would be perfect Christmas gifts for our family since we are going to Hawaii next spring. Thanks and (((Hugs))), Alma

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Creative Ways to Give Money Gifts

Date Posted: 08:39:55 04/25/12 Wed
Author: shilo
Subject: Folded money ideas

http://go.tipjunkie.com/kd/835/michelle ... ey-on.html

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[> Re: Folded money ideas -- Sarah, 19:56:26 04/25/12 Wed [1]

Fun idea for giving money:
http://craftyjournal.com/dollar-bill-wallet/

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How to Make Money Leis

Date Posted: 08:47:02 05/16/12 Wed
Author: shilo
Subject: How to make a money leis

http://lilluna.com/how-to-make-money-leis/

Note: This is also archived on the Graduation Archive Board.