The Nickel Project

My niece collects nickels, so I save my nickels to give them to her for her Birthdays and Christmas. She turned 16 on on the 16th, her lucky years is also her Sweet 16th, I just so happened to collect 16 rolls of nickels since I last gave her nickels.With collecting something like Nickels, I hope she will have a nice bit of money saved for when she is ready to be on her own.

In the past we have packaged them creatively. For Christmas we made a rain stick out of a wrapping paper tube and popsicle sticks. For her birthday last year we melted a coin slot in a large hollow chocolate easter egg (she was a little disappointed she got easter candy in July). This year I didn't have a big enough easter bunny to fit them all, so we decided to sculpt them.....

640 nickels, 6.5 tubes of super glue, and I may try it again, once I get my fingers unstuck.