Thursday's Tip: Reward Jar

I decided that my current system of punishment (toys in time-out) was no longer working when. I noticed one day the top of my armoire looked liked it was housing a small toy store. Once upon a time, I used to put a toy in time-out, and he was really good and able to earn that same toy back long before another toy entered time-out. So now that oodles of toys were living on my armoire, I decided on a more positive system, hoping that what would work better would be a simple rewards jar. But first I had to make it look fun right?!



Materials Needed:
Jar (I got this cute one at Hobby Lobby on sale for $2.50, but even a cleaned up food jar would do just great).
ribbons for embellishment
Star Tag from the Holiday Gift Giving Cut It Set
LD Petticoat or another fun font
Fuzz balls

Optional: I used letters from the Pucker Up Collection Cut It sets to make the word Reward, however another fun font would work great here.

Directions:
Begin by creating your word art using Photoshop, Illustrator, Inkscape or other digital art program. Since I decided to use letters from the Pucker Up Cut it sets, I used Illustrator and pulled out the various letters to form the word 'Reward.' I used and M and turned it upside down for my W. I used LD Petticoat to write Calvin's Jar, manipulating size and direction again in Illustrator. This could easily be done with almost any digital art program.  I placed my word art on top of my inner stars so that I could just print and cut the inner portion using Make-the-Cut. Then I cut out both that and the tag and adhered together. After that, I simply tied some ribbon around my jar and hung my star, embellishing with more ribbon. Simple, quick, easy and hopefully effective!