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1: Money balloons @ She’s crafty
2: Chocolate money @ Life as a mom
3: Origami money @ Homemade gifts
4: Peppermint Money Rolls @ Martha Stewart
5: Gift Card Cuff @ It’s Toile Good
6: Canned Money @ What I live For
7: Money Tree @ Then She Made
8: Money Lei @ Lil luna
9: Clue Games @ C.R.A.F.T.
10: Money Lottery- My brother invented this method. He puts various amounts of cash in envelopes, fans them out and allows us each to pick one envelope. Typically this happens on Christmas afternoon. One year the big prize was $100! I must say it is pretty exciting, and my siblings and I look forward to it each year!
11: Gingerbread “dough” +poem @ Heart and soul scrappers
12: Book Money- Hide a crisp $20 bill in a good book. Freakanomics, Matilda, or maybe even a cook book. The hard part is not telling the recipient. Just let the recipient find the hidden treasure as they flip through the book. I promise they will be excited…it is like finding $10 in your winter coat pocket!
13: Kleenex money box @ Lovezilla
15: Frame money @ Create my event
16: It’s raining money @ The seasonal home
With Christmas just around the corner, I feel like this might be a handy post 
Do you have any other ideas about how to give cash creatively? I’d love to hear…
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Thank you, C.R.A.F.T., for the great roundup!!! I bookmarked it, FBed it and Tweeted it, too! You're awesome! Thanks for all the information and inspiration C.R.A.F.T. provides. Merry, merry and happy, happy!
aww, thanks Laurie!
I like it a lot! So creative!
Thanks, Vera!
How about it put money in the balloons (like your post) but hang them on a dartboard and give the recipient(s) a certain number of darts (5?) to throw. Whatever balloons they break, that’s the amount they get. Of course they keep throwing darts until they break a balloon with each one.
That’s a great idea! Thanks for sharing, Vicky!
Those are so creative! I like the balloon idea, I’m going to have to give it a try.
Love all these ideas! Thanks so much!
Thanks for Showing Me the Money!
Kelly
These are some very cool ideas!! You are so right…a card with a $20 bill in it is just too boring!
Love the ideas and will use a couple this Christmas!!! Thanks for the ideas!
Charlotte from AZ
Happy you like the ideas, Charlotte
My mom was lots of fun and extremely creative but one year it boomeranged on her….It was my brother’s first year in college and she was always sending little care pkgs. to him … Well, this one time she decided to carefully open up a bunch of shelled walnuts, took out the nutmeat and replaced it with different denominations of money ($1.00 – $5.00 – 10′s 20′s 50′s and even a hundred dollar bill…)and glued the shells back together again. …Well, my brother was busy preparing for his finals and wasnt all that excited about a receiving a big box of unshelled walnuts so he dumped them in a bowl and put them out on the coffee table for anyone to enjoy…When his friends came by he was completely surprised when they started to open up the nuts and out popped the money…!! Need I say more..?? His books were pushed aside and everyone helped him painstakenly open each and every one….!! Needless to say, he never took her surprises for granite again and always, always checked everything very, very carefully …inside, outside, and upside down. : )
Ha! That is awesome! What a funny story… Thanks for sharing, Marty!
We are looking for some different ways to give our kids money this year. Last year we got them 300 one dollar bills, crumbled them up separately and put them in a pizza box. Wrapped the box up and had a contest. They sat on the couch, could unwrap the present but not open the box. Then they had to face the open end of box away from them and when we counted to 3 they had to see who could open the box the fastest!!!! What fun they had. Am really glad I found your site. thinking about the balloon one for this year!!
Thanks!
We gave cold hard cash by placing the money into ziplock bags and freezing in buckets and bowls of water. We had to get creative to keep the bags of money from floating to the top of the container before freezing but it was a lot of fun to give a bucket with blocks of “ice” with money in it.
I am going to give my wife cash for Christmas, so that she can go out and spend it on whatever she wants. Putting in a card, in paper or gift card form, doesn’t really convey much thought at all.
So, knowing how much I wanted to give, I started to think of ways to make giving cash as memorable as possible. Also, I didn’t want to use google to rehash someone elses idea, not that there is anything wrong with that.
I came up with the idea of giving her stacks of hundred $1 bills but wanted to take it a step further. I looked up how many bills are in a pound. 454, as each bill weighs a gram. I broke down the gift to be equal to just over a pound. I will wrap it in deli paper and put it in the frig.
Getting her to find it will entail a clue game, ultimately leading to a deli ticket to have her check the lunch meat drawer.
We are doing a scavenger hunt for our kids too.
Can’t wait for Christmas morning. Should be fun.
What a fun idea! Thanks for sharing!
Since Easter is coming soon, this gave me an idea to give money in plastic easter eggs in an old egg carton…thanks for sharing these great ideas.
I have hidden money for my grandchildren for many years, here are some of the ones i have done in the past
hide rolled up cash and put into uncooked pasta, small tubes, work good
wrap money in tin foil, and put into a favorite candy, i open the end and them glue it closed, really fun i those big bags of assorted candy
i put some in between the “popcorn” packing peanuts ,i taped with clear tape nomey between two peanuts and added it to a box full of them.
roll them in a paper towel roll and can use toilet paper, hope these ideas help