How to Make Fake Printable Money for Free

You always somehow manage to misplace all the money for the Monopoly game or your kids have insisted they want to go shopping with 'real' money, just like you do. Whatever you need it for, you need some fake money fast. You could always buy a pack of it on the toy aisle, but who wants to pay that much for a stack of paper? You need free play money. The steps below can help you make fake printable money for free.

Difficulty:

Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• Computer
• Photo making program

1. Use a Paint program or a similar program to get ready to make your fake printable money for free.

2. Choose a picture you want to use. It can be a picture of a president to make your kids feel more like it's real or some kids especially like when the play money has their own picture on it.

3. 

   Create a rectangle 350 X 170 pixels. Most programs, including Paint have a box in the lower right that shows how many pixels you are drawing. Refer to the picture on the left to see what area.

4. Situate the photo you chose in the middle and use the circle tool to form an oval around it.

5. 

   Erase any edges of the photo that are outside of the oval. It's okay if you are a little sloppy, just try to make the edges look a little round.

6. 

   Use the text object to add the fake money value in all four corners of the rectangle. The top number should be in a slightly larger font than the lower one.

7. Add any extra decorations in the open spaces, such as writing the dollar amount out in words, or adding a 'seal' to it.

8. 

   Copy the play money for kids and paste it 9 more times. You should have a sheet of money that is 2 X 5.

9. Use "Print Preview" to ensure the fake money is fitting the page properly.

10. Print on light green construction paper with dark ink. You just made fake printable money for free!

Tips & Warnings

• Let kids make a picture to put in the center of the play money.

• Let kids cut out the printed fake money. Don't forget to supervise children with scissors.