Tiffany Harkleroad, youth services librarian at the Butler Area Public Library, helps Ben McKiney pick a toy out after earning wooden coins for doing different financial activities last week. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle

Tiffany Harkleroad, youth services librarian at the Butler Area Public Library, hopes youngsters ignore the advice to “not take any wooden nickels.” She hopes to pass out a lot of wooden nickels to children in April and May.

The tokens are part of the library’s financial literacy class for children ranging in age from preschool through 17.

“It’s a long-term program that runs through the whole months of April and May,” Harkleroad said. “When they register, they get a packet, which contains a list of different classes they can complete (to earn) wooden nickel tokens.”

For example, reading a book on financial literacy earns them a token, completing an online course earns them a token.

Harkleroad said there will be two in-person programs at the library that will allow participates to score a wooden nickel.