Fake money holder for cub scouts

Highlighted in this post is a money holder for my wife's scout store. Anyone familiar who with 8-year-old boy's behavior, know they can be precocious and unruly. This is especially true when trying to teach them things they deem less than interesting. As a means of reigning in their behavior, during the 1-hour den meeting, Bronny created a scout store. She shops and finds bargains on items she thinks the boys will be interested in; Then sells them to the boys using fake scout money. They earn the money based on good behavior during the den meeting. Needless to say, the store has been a huge success, for the most part (Some boys have no price).

I have already highlighted in a previous post the money I designed for the store.



The problem has arisen, that some of these boys insist on saving much of their money. This makes using flat paper sleeves unsuited for the task. So Bronny asked me to design a paper money holder of sorts. Below you can see the design and the final result. It turned out rather well.

Resources if you want to try

If you're interested in printing these for your own scout store the pdf for this can be downloaded from this link.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxeybFoTNkf2V244TGRQdjRoUVk

If you are interested in printing the money for the above holder download from this link:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxeybFoTNkf2ZlZJYnVFRlVnUU0

Design for the money holder. Was able to fit 2 to a 8.5 x 11 page

Process and construction

As is the case with any custom-made paper box, measurements had to be taken of the money. Design was executed using Adobe InDesign. Several versions of the holder were printed and tested to make sure they would work as intended. Duct tape or masking tape work well to bind them together.

Here is the Money holder. Notice we use flat tacks to pin it to the board

Here is the Money holder with money.

Money holders as they appear on the Cork board. Notice the older flat sleeves at the bottom