hi I'm Sophie and welcome to my world
you know a long time ago
somebody said to me Sophie could you
make a piggy bank and you know I meant
to do it all those years ago but the
other day what inspired me was this
posting I saw on a happy mum and she
made three piggy banks not just one but
three piggy banks out of basic recycled
materials she just used bottles and she
made the cutest thing she made one to
share one to spend and one to save and I
thought what a great way of teaching
kids how to work with their money you
give a little you save a little you
spend a little so I'm gonna show you how
to make these adorable little piggies
right now and as you can see one's to
share one's to save and one's to spend for this project you'll need a water bottle
or three water bottles with a large
enough mouth opening to let your change
fall through an exacto knife or box
cutter duct tape scissors letter
stickers a cutting board googly eyes
sharpie pen glue gun eight water bottle
lids per Pig pipe cleaner clear packing
tape wax paper or parchment paper and my
templates which you can get from Sophie-world.com one of the things that I
learned when making these water bottles
is I started with a small one because
this is the kind of water bottle I had
and I thought oh these are so cute but
watch what happens
put my change in pennies dimes and of
course my quarters but look what happens
when I want to take my change out see a
problem the quarter won't come out
and because the quarter won't come out
that makes this little piggy a constant
saver I'll never be able to get my
quarters out so I realized that I
needed to go for bottles with a bigger
mouth this is a great sized bottle this
is a Gatorade bottle and it is
perfect for what we want to do first
thing we're gonna do is prep the bottle
be very careful here this is something
that an adult only should do and you
really never want to cut towards
yourself you always want to cut away
kind of get your box cutter up and
underneath there and just get that
little ring cut right off you can use
scissors but it's really hard to get
underneath there but the other thing you
want to do is cut off the label so again
always make sure you're cutting away
from yourself and pull off the label so
the piggies need ears so what I'm gonna
do is make some duct tape ears so I've
got my blue duct tape here my blue polka
dot duct tape and what I'm gonna do is
take four and a half inches of duct tape
and fold it over onto itself leaving a
half an inch of sticky so I'm just gonna
fold it over like that leaving half an
inch of sticky and I'm gonna do two of
these
then what I can do is take one and stick
it right on top of the other like that
and fold these in half so that the
sticky is facing up like that and
that'll work
I'm gonna take my template and I'm gonna
lay my template down and using my exacto
excuse me using my Sharpie pen I'm gonna
come up and around and then I can fold
this in half
and cut that way I get both of them at
the same time now what I'm going to do
is make the inside of the ears for that
I'm going to be using a little bit of
wax paper or parchment paper which ever
you have parchment paper is actually
better than wax paper I find that
sometimes wax paper sticks I'm going to
take the dark pink here and lay this
down I'm leaving some of this so that
I'd be able to peel this off easily then
I'm going to fold this in half and I'm
going to take my ear inner ear template
lay it on and trace around with my
Sharpie pen
fold this in half again cut up and over
and then peel the wax paper off and
place my inner ear right in the center
of my ear here now what I'm going to be
doing is taking my exacto knife and
cutting a small slit right down the
middle and then I'm gonna flip this over
place my inner ear right in the center
do the same thing here a little snip
right down the center and then flip it
over take my inner ear
place it in the center I'm going to make
my ear by taking one side of the cut and
the other side of the cut and folding it
over onto itself
just like that and then sticking it
right on my piggy head so one more time
I've got that cut kind of like a pair of
pant legs just fold one over on to the
other and that's gonna pull the ear into
an ear shape and it's also going to give
you a nice little base just stick to
your piggy head just like that now I'm
gonna add some eyeballs I've got my
little googly eyes I'm gonna use my hot
glue for this a little hot glue here and
a little hot glue here your piggy can
stay nudie or naked if you want it to
but if you want to like ahappymom did
make a save spend and share you're going
to want to make like a little band for
the body so for that what we're going to
do is we're gonna take some of our blue
top tape here we're gonna match our ears
and lay your tape out and then if you
want to you can go one two three four
four is going to make sure that you have
enough just give it a little cut in the
middle you're going to use your letters
here and you're going to spell out what
you're gonna do so I'm gonna do save so
I've got a now make sure that you put
your lettering down towards the bottom
because you're going to want to cut the
hole for your change to go in and you
want this to be underneath it so s, a
find my V
and I just need an e now what I found is
that these letters have a tendency to
pop off so I'm going to use some clear
tape I'm just going to take a little bit
of clear tape and I'm just gonna cut
enough that'll go over the save whenever
you're using clear tape the tip is fold
that end over when you're done with it
so that you don't lose it take my piece
place it over top smooth it down that's
going to make sure that those letters
stay in place then I'm going to pick up
this duct tape
place the save directly behind the
piggy's ears here so right in the center
if you want to you can use a cap to keep
it in place or your duct tape will keep
them from rolling there we go
basically what you want to do is get the
top part lined up first make sure that
that's right in between those ears and
then you can wrap around on one side and
wrap around from the other side and now
you need to cut a hole right here now
this you need to be very careful with
because you're cutting through these
layers of plastic and this can be sharp
and you want to make sure you don't cut
through and hurt your fingers or catch
your fingers with the knife but you're
going to cut on both sides and make a
big enough space so I cut here I cut
here and then I cut to fix both edges
there so I cut to fit and then try to
make sure that it doesn't fall in there
by reaching in there and grabbing that
so there you go now you got that
now the only thing our little piggy
needs is a tail and some feet to make
the feet what you're gonna do is take
two bottle caps now if you don't have
that many bottle caps you can always use
a nice big bead or you can use corks or
whatever you want to but what I'm gonna
do is make matching feet so I've got
these two bottle caps and I'm gonna glue
them together top to top or actually
excuse me bottom to bottom is what that
is not top to top so I put a little glue
hot glue around the outside there now
this one is one of those ones that has
like a little prong in there so I'm
gonna make sure that I split the
difference so it goes right in between
there okay and I've glued that together
now what I'm gonna do is take a strip
about four inches long three to four
inches long
I should be able to get three strips out
of each gonna make it about 3/4 of an
inch long
excuse me wide so 3/4 of an inch wide
1/2 to 3 quarters of an
inch and then I'm just gonna take this
tape and wrap it around this is gonna
make him have matching hooves ok and if
it's a little too short which this one
is just use the second piece of tape
there you go
and just wrap that around and you want
to make four sets of feet so that's why
you need eight bottle caps and now let's
put them on so I'm just gonna glue those
little footies and put some hot glue on
the top of my foot and place it right
underneath there
take a second foot you want to make sure
that your pig stands evenly so this one
this is the foot once you get the first
foot on this is the foot that actually
really counts making sure now you can
just do two feet if you like and just
leave him like that
or you can do four I'm gonna do four
just because four is tricky so what you
want to do is you want to line up that
foot in the back there first to make
sure it's in line with front feet you
want to do this so that you kind of have
him balanced and then slide the foot in
otherwise you can end up you know if you
glued it in the wrong place like glued
him in the air he might end up being
like really tippy but right there he's
nice and solid and then we need a tail
so just gonna take a Sharpie pen here
and wrap my pipe cleaner around to get a
nice cute little piggy tail and just cut
it off right there at the edge of that
curl and then add a little bit of hot
glue and just plop it right on the back
there the last thing I'm gonna have to
add a little bit of a nostril flare to
my little my nosey here so I could use a
black sharpie or I can use my little
orange one here give him an understated
nostril and then just put that on now to
be safe what you probably should do is
put your cap on first then draw your
nose otherwise you might end up with
sideways nose like that or an upside
down nose so put your cap on then draw
your nose and there you have your saving
Pig now thought I'd show you some of
these other piggy banks that I made
because they have bigger snouts which
means that you can get those quarters
out that I was telling you about or even
50 cent pieces so this one is made out
of a big water bottle as you can see and
this one is made out of a peanut bottle
see that isn't that cool
and if he's got a great big snout and I
used wooden beads for his feet instead
of the bottle caps and then this is the
last one that I thought I would share
with you and that is one made out of a
vinegar bottle so there's some extra
ideas for you for your share save and
spend piggy banks but I got to say I'm
very fond of these little guys
I just wish their snouts were bigger for more
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