My 7 year old lost his first tooth the other night, it was so unexpected! To be completely honest, I didn't even know what the going rate per tooth was these days. When I was little, I remember getting .25 per tooth, *maybe* a dollar sometimes?? I think the rate has a gone up a bit in 20+ years lol. Since it was unexpected (no loose teeth that I had noticed during teeth brushing), I wasn't even sure that I had cash on hand. =X I did a quick look up on my pinterest board, and found a neat idea for the tooth fairy.
The dollar basket is pretty simple to do, it was just very time consuming since I couldn't get the triangle folds correctly. I had to redo it a few times. I placed a few pennies into the basket :-)
Luckily, I had a few scrapbook pieces laying around in my box, so I took it out, and let the *toothfairy* write a little note to my son. He was so extremely excited to find his tiny basket, he carried it around in our home for about 2 days haha.
Here's the Video for the Origami basket: Money Origami Tip Basket
Here's the blogpost that inspired me: Tooth Fairy Fun
What does the toothfairy leave for your kids?
Such a cute idea! I would have loved this!!! I always looked forward to the tooth fairy coming and sometimes she left amazing things ( a blanket) and sometimes she completely forgot and my mom and dad had to help me find where she left the money, haha!!
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That's so funny! I remember the toothfairy misplacing money every so often as well lol.
DeleteI love this idea so much. So funny, I was going to ask you his reaction, and I got distracted. I knew he'd love it, what a creative mommy!
ReplyDeleteOnly thanks to pinterest hahahaha!
DeleteThis is adorable! What a great idea:) my kids keep losing teeth like crazy, could be a very useful idea!
ReplyDeleteI think we found another loose tooth, so I'll have to find some other ideas as well! :-)
DeleteWow, it was unexpected, yet it looked like tooth fairy was working on this surprise for a long time - I'm amazed by how quickly you put all this magic together;-))) Unbelievably creative!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much!<3 Pinterest is like a bible for creativeness haha.
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