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Money Bouquet

Want a fun way to give cash for graduation or a birthday? Try making your own money bouquet. It’s easy to put together with just a few supplies. 
Prep Time45 minutes
Servings: 1 Bouquet

Ingredients

  • 25 Dollar Bills
  • 25 Skewers
  • Scotch Tape
  • Pipe Cleaners
  • Faux Florals
  • Paper for Wrapping like butcher paper, brown paper, tissue paper, etc
  • Ribbon

Instructions

  • For each petal you will use one skewer and one dollar bill. You will also need three pieces of scotch tape, each about an inch long. Start with the bill face up on a table. Fold it in half and crease it, so when you open it back up you can see the exact center of the bill. Place a skewer onto the crease, about halfway up the bill as shown below. Place a piece of tape over the skewer, letting about a quarter inch of the tape extend past the end of the bill. (Tape is shown by the blue rectangles in the photos below.) Flip the bill over and place another piece of tape on the back of the bill in the same place, again letting the tape extend past the end of the bill.
    Dollar bill with skewer taped to it.
  • Flip the bill face side up again. Grab the two bottom corners and bring them together to touch, as you see in the photo below. Pull the corners together to create a petal shape, and secure the bill by taping across it as shown by the blue rectangle:
    Pulling bottom two corners of bill and pinching them together with fingers; taping them together.
  • You have created a petal. Repeat until you have 25 petals.
    Dollar bill folded to look like a flower petal.
  • Place five sets of petals together to make a flower and wrap pipe cleaners around the skewer stems to secure. Place a small sprig of faux floral in the center of each flower.
    Five petals made from dollar bills held together to make a flower.
  • Create three flowers. Place them together and use a pipe cleaner at the bottom of the stems to secure them in a bunch.
    Three money flowers connected together with a pipe cleaner.
  • Holding the bouquet at the bottom with one hand, add in the other petals around the outside edges with the other hand. Secure with more pipe cleaners. Add additional faux florals and secure with additional pipe cleaners. Adjust as needed until you are happy with how the bouquet looks.
    Money bouquet.
  • Cut a large square of paper and three smaller squares of tissue paper. Overlap the tissue paper near one corner of the larger piece of paper and place the bouquet over the tissue paper.
    Large piece of kraft paper with squares of tissue paper laid over it; money bouquet laid over the paper.
  • Fold in the paper from the right, then up from the bottom, then in from the left, wrapping the bouquet. Secure with tape and tie with a ribbon.
    Paper folded in from the right side, up from the bottom, and in from the left side.
  • Bouquet can be set into a mason jar or vase for display.
    Money boquet.

Notes

If you will be gathering the flowers and securing them together with pipe cleaners as directed, tape the pointed ends of the skewers to the bills so the flat ends would be at the bottom of the “flower stems”. If you would like to stick the ends of the flowers into floral foam instead, tape the flat ends of the skewers to the bills so the pointed ends will be at the bottom. 
When you'd like to disassemble the bouquet, slide all the pipe cleaners off the skewer stems. Then gently pull off the tape that holds the petals together, and remove the tape securing the bill to the skewer. The bills will be curved; they can be ironed on a medium setting until flat.