Make your own money for the game

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Regardless of whether you lack the money in a game or you simply want to equip the cash register of the grocery store, you can make both the notes and the coins yourself.

Make money to play with.
Make money to play with. © Thomas_Klauer / Pixelio

What you need:

  • paper
  • Cardboard
  • pencils
  • scissors
  • Laminating film
  • Laminator
  • Fimo modeling clay
  • Rolling pin
  • toothpick
  • Silver or gold lacquer

If you run out of money in a board game or in a grocery store, you can make it yourself.

How to make bogus money

It is easy to make banknotes from cardboard or plain paper:

  1. First cut out a square from paper with the dimensions of your banknote.
  2. Paint it with a building or a face of a famous person as you like. It can also be a family member.
  3. To write You the value as well as the currency. Make sure that this note does not look too similar to a real one so that it cannot count as a counterfeit.
  4. Copy money - this is how you can duplicate play money

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  5. Alternatively, you can also copy or color existing play money.
  6. Now copy your template as often as you like and cut out the individual notes.

This is how coins are created for your game

  1. You can make coins in a similar way to making notes.
  2. Draw circles and paint them as you like.
  3. Write the value of the coins on them in large numbers.
  4. Place the coins in lamination film with spaces between them and seal them.
  5. Now cut out the individual coins.

How to knead the change

Fimo putty has the property that it hardens in the oven:

  1. Knead the polymer clay thoroughly and roll it out flat like a dough with a rolling pin.
  2. Poke out the coins with a round object such as a ring.
  3. Now scratch the pattern and the value of the coin with a toothpick or other sharp object.
  4. Now bake your coins in the oven according to the instructions on the packaging.
  5. When the coins have cooled down, spray them with silver or gold lacquer

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