The winter holidays are winding down and each day brings a combination of sadness that we will soon return to our usual hectic schedule and anxiousness for school to please begin again soon! We are phasing out of our pre- holiday craft projects and into ones that are simple, easy, and don't require much of us. Fortunately, Santa brought us coin collecting books. What seemed like a project that the kids might be interested in, has turned into something that we are all really enjoying as a family. We dug out that old change jar ( the one that held the 10 million Costco animal cookies- that we "bought for the kids because it was such good deal" , but ended eating 85% of ourselves) from the top of the washing machine - a workout in itself, and plunked it on the counter with the coin collecting books. We began with the state quarter map book. I really like this one because it teaches geography and many different facts about each state, like native animals and plants. Plus it's just fun to dig through the change jar to see how many different states you can find. I suspect that if your change jar has been sitting around for as long as mine, you probably have just about every state in there already. Something I found interesting was that the book has slots for the US territories such as Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam ... We found Hawaii and Alaska pretty easily and I was shocked to have found Guam but I have visions of Ebay when thinking of American Samoa.
I hadn't realized until taking on the quarter project that the US Mint had released a new line of National Park quarters starting in 2010 and some really cool nickels that feature the Lewis and Clark expedition and the Louisiana Purchase. I suppose we'll have to go get books for those too. And just in case, I'm setting aside two of everything with the expectation that the baby may want her own collection one day, even though all she wants to do right now is huck all the coins onto the floor.
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