DIY Piggy Bank
Turn a plastic water bottle into an adorable DIY piggy bank with just a few simple craft supplies! This fun and easy kids project is perfect for encouraging creativity and teaching money-saving skills.
Yield: 1 water bottle piggy bank
Cost: $2
Materials
- Free Printable Piggy Bank Ears Template
- Water bottle (washed and dry)
- Craft foam sheets (pink)
- Glitter craft foam (pink)
- Black marker
- Pipe cleaner (pink)
- Pink scrapbook paper
- Googly eyes (1cm)
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Make the ears, nose, tail, and legs
- Print our free piggy bank ears template and cut out the pieces.Find the link in the materials list above and choose from pointed ears or rounded ears.
- Trace the template pieces onto craft foam and cut out 2 of each. We used regular foam for the ears and self-adhesive glitter foam for the inner ears.
- Attach the inner ears onto the ears, lining up the bottoms.
- This piggy bank is made from a 500 ml water bottle. Trace the cap onto craft foam for the nose.(Note: We traced the bottom of the cap here, but you should actually trace the top of the cap for a better fit!)
- Cut out the circle and use black permanent marker to add 2 nostril lines.
- For the tail, cut a 12 inch pipe cleaner in half.
- Wrap the pipe cleaner half around a pencil to create a tight spiral tail.
- For the pig's legs, cut 4 strips of craft foam. These strips are 3/4 inch wide and 3-1/2 inches long, but you can play around with different sizes.The width of the strip is how tall the legs will be, while the length affects the width of the legs.
- Roll up one of the strips tightly and add hot glue to keep the spiral in place.
- Repeat to create the rest of the legs.
Step 3: Cover the piggy bank body
- Cut a piece of scrapbook paper to fit around your bottle. This piece is 8-3/4 inches long and 4-1/2 inches across, but the exact size you need will depend on your specific bottle.
- Find the center of the paper and draw a "cross" shape.Make it 1/4 inch long along the length of the paper with a 1 inch line perpendicular to this.
- Then use a craft knife to make slices in the paper along these lines. This will help you create the opening of the piggy bank.
- Wrap the scrapbook paper around the bottle and attach it with hot glue. Hold until the paper sticks well by itself.
- Push the craft knife down through the openings in the paper until you pierce the plastic bottle. Then use detail scissors to cut the coin slot for the piggy bank.
Step 4: Attach the piggy bank parts
- Use hot glue to attach the legs to the bottom of the bank.
- Add a very thin line of hot glue to the bottom of the ears.
- Attach them at the front of the bank (the side with the bottle cap) just at the edge of the paper.
- Glue the pipe cleaner tail to the back of the bank (the bottom of the bottle).
- Then glue the nose to the front of the bank, on the top of the cap.
- Finally, attach 2 googly eyes to the bottle between the ears and the nose.
- Your DIY piggy bank is complete!
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Notes
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