Formula-Craft Coin Collector

If you have babies (or friends/family with babies) who aren't exclusively breast feeding you will find yourself swimming in formula tins. As this is where I find myself with young twins on breast/bottle: the tins are mounting up. As there are only so any screws and components needing storage I munched on a jelly baby and came up with this, the first of the Formula-craft (FC) instructables. Introducing the FC Coin Collector. It's highly customisable, holds a reasonable amount of coin, can be adapted for all currencies, is easy to access and fairly sturdy.

Disclaimer: 1st instructable for this tribe - let me know what you think.

Step 1: Gather & Wash Materials

You will need:

1 Formula tin - brand is purely personal prefernce of course - washed and dried (don't skimp on the washing feral formula smells incredibly gross and grows some funky nasties)
Pair of scissors
Stanley or similar sharp knife

Optional:
2 A4 Sheets of Paper
Sticky Tape
Colouring/drawing devices
Glue
Decorations
Child/ren 3+yrs

Comments

[alchemistzero]

it is the obvious ideas that elude our minds. congrats on your first instructable, its a great idea!

[Mr. Rig It]

Cute project

[marsnco]

Thanx - it's my first instructable :)

[Scammah]

I guess this could be done with a coffee can also

[marsnco]

It could definitely be done with any lidded can, I used the formula tins because the lids are soft plastic (here in oz the coffee tins are all metal) making it easy to cut especially with pre-school age children around and although my coffee consumption is pretty high, it can't compete with my twins consmption of formula ;) .