Developing Talents #1 ~ Learn how to budget and save money.Discuss why it is important to faithfully pay our tithing and how Heavenly father blesses us when we do (see 3 Nephi 24:10-11). Pay your tithing and begin saving for a mission.
This week we still had our little lesson on Tithing. There are extra two things – Saving and Spending.
Daddy gave them some guidelines by which they could decide how much to save and how much to save and how much to spend.
Daddy was suggested and recommended saving 50% and spending 40%, and of coarse the 10% for tithing.
Then we had a fun time decorating jars for them to keep their money in. The ideas I was adapting from one of the great Mormon Mom website: http://www.fabnfree.com/2013/04/14/tithing-savings-spending-jars-free-printable-labels/.
For this activity, I had went to few places to get the materials ready.
I changed the original cans to much more smaller and neat plastic jars which I found it at Mr. DIY. it costs much more cheaper as I managed to get 6 pcs @ RM0.90 = RM5.94 only.
I did buy some fun and patterned but small tapes at Mr. DIY 2 rolls @ RM1.40 = RM2.80. I did not satisfy for the designs and sourcing for more designs, and I went to the Daiso to get some. As I cannot get the duct tape here.
And I managed to get some beautiful Japanese washi tapes or masking tapes especially at the Times Bookstore Citta Mall Ara Damansara, during the children attended their art class at Jane Yap Atelier. Of coarse the price would be a bit pricy. It is the Mt tapes MT ex series, which 3 rolls of tapes costs me about RM40.00++ but it is really beautiful and unique.
That is where both Issac and Annabelle’s creativity and individual personalities really came out. They love to decorate their money jars.
I was thinking like may be they would just wrapped the same design tape around the jar and overlapping it with one kind of tape wholly for that jar, but instead both of them surprised me with the choices they made to use all the different patterns on one jar, making a striped effect.
After they had taped up their jars I gave them some labels to put on the jar. I just downloaded these labels on a plain white paper as I do not have the label stickers.
Annabelle picked some felt flowers and sticker onto the money jars and made hers looked more beautiful. When I asked Issac, if he want some decorations on top, he just straight away told me, “Nope, Mom. Flowers are for girls! I am ok with mine.”
The jars turned out pretty cute and both of them had a fun time making them. They told me, “Mom, this time lesson is more fun than the last week lesson.” I was like… Hopefully they learned something about what to do with their money jars too!
