Flower and Butterfly Money Lei’s

It’s Graduation time and what better gift to give a newly graduated high School student then the gift of money?? But giving money in a card seems too boring.

When my oldest graduated I made him candy and money Lei’s and I decided to make him enough so that each of us could put one around his neck at graduation. Well when my second one graduated I decided to carry on the tradition, so I made them again, and here it is my last son is graduation and there’s no way I can stop now! I also have 3 nieces graduating too this year so I really needed to up my Lei making game, So my sister and I got together and we got to work. It is a lot funner making Lei’s for girls, there are a lot more fun ideas for them. I started off folding all the money into shapes, Butterflies and Flowers.

Butterfly Money:

Flower Money:

Once you get the hang of it, it goes by super fast, these two designs are almost the same folds with just a few variations. Then you make the Candy necklaces.

Candy Necklaces: you can use any type of candy, the possibilities are endless! Roll out cellophane or plastic wrap ( I don’t like the looks of plastic wrap for some reason) So I use cellophane and lay out the candy onto the edge of the plastic. Carefully roll up and tie curling ribbon in between each piece of candy.