How to Make a Coin Organizer
An easy gift for your child to make for their mother or father is a coin organizer. With homemade gifts like these, imperfections are what makes them so special. You can take several approaches to making coin organizer, such as making it from popsicle sticks, but bakeable clay lends an organic feel to the coin organizer. Include your child's fingerprints in the final stages of molding the organizer and you'll have a unique, treasured gift.
Things You'll Need
- Flour
- Salt
- Cooking oil
- Water
- Popsicle stick
- Coins
- Baking sheet
- Aluminum foil
Instructions
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Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil. Turn the oven to 300 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Mix two cups of flour for every one cup of salt together. Add one cup of cold water and mix. Add 2 tablespoons of cooking oil and work the clay together with your hands.
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Shape the clay to any form as long as it's 2 inches deep, 6 inches wide and 3 inches high. Use your imagination for the outer shape. As long as there's room for the coins to fit near the edge, it will work.
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Place the coins on top of the clay figure out where you want to put the coin columns. Space them far enough apart that you'll have a wall between each type of coin. Press the coins into the surface of the clay to mark the desired width of each coin column.
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Remove the coins and start gouging out the columns for the coins from the clay form using your fingers or the popsicle stick. You can cut the slot from the front of the coin organizer to the column for the coins at any time. Leave at least a quarter inch on the bottom.
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Check that the coins fit inside the columns smoothly and that you can remove them before baking. Press your fingerprints into the clay if you want.
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Place the clay on the aluminum foiled baking sheet. Bake for one hour in a 300 degree oven.
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Paint the coin organizer after it cools. After the paint dries, apply several coats of clear protective paint.
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Tips & Warnings
You may have to break the popsicle stick in half lengthwise to reach the bottom for smaller coins.
References
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