Ideas for a bank?

[MamaCaveBear]

Does anyone have any neat ideas for a bank that I can make for my DD? All the ones I have seen at the store are icky/tacky.

TIA!

[eepster]

Any kind of container with room to store money and an opening big enough to get it in can be a bank.

What you need to decide is what you want in the way of features for this bank. You've already mentioned not tacky, so a spagetti sauce jar with a slit in the lid probably isn't the way you want to go. Ask yourself the following:

• How important is attractiveness?
• What kind of look do you want?
• How much do you want it to hold?
• Do you want it to be easy or hard to get the money back out?
• Do you want to be able to see the money?
• Is it important that it clink when putting in cions?
• do you want it to hold bills or just change?

[mazajo]

Take old coffee cans (the kind with the rounded edges), cover them with construction paper, and let the kids paint! Anything your DC paints can't be tacky And cut a slit in the lid for the money. Any kind of container works, coffee cans are just what we used

[spmamma]

If you or your DH are handy with wood, my dad made a wooden bank with a old P.O. Box door for the front for each of us kids when we were little. I still have mine and really cherish it.

[rere]

You could try looking for containers at the thrift store.