Everyone knows the old one folk wisdom, saying: “A penny will save a ruble.” It wouldn’t hurt any person to have a “stash”, that is, a certain amount of money that is kept in reserve and which can be used in case of emergency. Why do you need and how to make a piggy bank yourself?
According to the teachings of Feng Shui, a piggy bank is the focus of financial flows, a specific source of energy that attracts money. Most often, coins are put into a piggy bank. But in modern society, in which almost everyone uses bank cards, such money is gradually becoming rare.
And how long does it take to collect a piggy bank in order to accumulate a decent amount in small denomination coins? Indeed, there is too much, so make it a habit to store it in paper bills, then the result will please you! Raising money is a whole science that you can read about.
A piggy bank is a special container for collecting funds. It is advisable that it does not open at all or that some effort must be made to extract money: then the temptation to extract a couple of hundred will disappear.
When the piggy bank is completely full or the “X-hour” has arrived, just break it! The product fulfilled its purpose, and you received the desired amount of money. Use them for their intended purpose and immediately start a new piggy bank.
We will tell you how to make a piggy bank with your own hands, because it is not only practical, but also interesting! Show your creativity, put your soul into needlework and make your personal money storage beautiful!
To make a piggy bank, you can use everything that is at hand, from cans and bottles to caskets and chests.
How to make a piggy bank from a bottle
For the most simple option piggy bank made from plastic bottle, we will need the following blanks:
- plastic bottle with a capacity of 1.5 or 2 liters;
- water;
- scissors and stationery knife;
- superglue and vinyl glue(PVA can be replaced);
- brush;
- 2 black buttons;
- permanent black marker.
- pink acrylic paint;
- scotch;
- container for mixing paint and brush;
- white napkins;
- pink cardboard;
- 5 plastic bottle caps;
Is everything ready? Let's get down to the actual work. First, cut off the top of the bottle, which will act as the pig's head. Then we separate the lower part - this will be the body. After this, you need to mix the paint with water and PVA glue, align the edges of the head and body, and then connect them by inserting them into each other. To make the structure strong, the junction of the two elements is secured with tape.
We take a utility knife and cut a hole for money in the upper back of the piggy bank. Then the piggy bank must be coated with pink adhesive, on top of which napkins are placed in several layers, alternating them with glue. Don't forget to let each layer dry!
In this way, you can make a piggy bank from paper on any basis or use the papier-mâché technique. Now that the surface of the piggy bank is uniform and dense, you should again cut a hole in the back of the pig.
The filling hole of the bottle is closed with a pink cap, that is, it turns out to be a kind of patch on which nostrils are drawn with a marker. Prepare pink cardboard and cut out a tail and ears from it, then glue them with superglue. With its help, you need to glue 2 buttons so that you get eyes. And the remaining 4 lids are used to make legs. Your home piggy bank is ready!
We told you how to make a piggy bank with your own hands from a bottle. But there are many more ways to make a product. Let's focus on the simplest, cheapest and do not require special training.
How to make a piggy bank from cardboard
For a simple cardboard piggy bank, we will need a box of the selected size, scissors, glue, an old newspaper (preferably vintage), pictures in the form of money and a stationery knife. Artificial bills glued to the shell of the piggy bank will attract real money inside. Nowadays it’s not a problem to buy hand-drawn banknotes of any denomination in bookstores, so feel free to grab an armful and remember: the more, the better!
How to make a money box from prepared materials? Let's look at the stages of work:
Clearly define for yourself the terms and situations in which the piggy bank will be opened - this is the only way you can accumulate a certain amount. No matter what, replenish your piggy bank every day, at least with small coins: this attracts positive financial flows to you and contributes to enrichment.
How to make a piggy bank with your own hands from a jar
Let's take as the basis of the product a 1-liter jar, a lid (nylon or metal for screwing), cardboard, scissors, glue, paper and paints for decoration.
So, carefully wash and dry the selected jar. Then we close it with a lid (nylon, if you still plan to sometimes pull out bills ahead of time, or metal, if the motivation is stronger than the desire to get money).
In the center of the lid, carefully cut a hole of such a size that coins and bills can easily fit into it, but if they are upside down, it will be impossible to shake them out of the jar.
Now it’s up to the aesthetic design of the piggy bank, because the storage for money should look attractive and cozy. Are you good at knitting? Great, knit a cover for the jar in any style, while tying the lid in the same style.
Do you draw beautifully? Buy acrylic paints and have fun painting the walls of the jar with flowers or abstract images. The jar can be covered with fabric, decorated with ribbons and decorative elements.
Piggy bank in nautical style It will look harmonious near the aquarium. Decorate it with shells, starfish and accumulate your savings day after day. It’s better not to see how full the piggy bank is. If desired, you can shake it and approximately determine the level of occupancy with money.
You learned how to make a piggy bank from a jar. Please note that you can also use tea or coffee cans to make it. The main thing is to fit them tightly together and decorate them to your liking. And don't forget to cut the money hole!
Save money! By investing coins every day, mentally invite new additions to the piggy bank. This will help get things moving and teach you how to attract money and good luck!
Often, in order to fulfill your desire, you need to save up a certain amount of money. To successfully complete this task, you should use a piggy bank! Piggy banks can be one of the most various materials, suitable for both metal coins, and for paper bills. Making a piggy bank at home is very simple and quick.
Piggy bank from a jar
A piggy bank made from a jar will be a fairly durable product and is perfect for storing a large number of coins. This assistant for storing money will do a good job with the considerable weight of your fortune.
To implement your idea, you will need glass, plastic or tin jar with lid. And also everything you can decorate the product.
These could be stickers, markers, colored paper, multi-colored laces and many other interesting unusual things. The tools you will need are a knife or scissors, as well as a glue gun.
The easiest way to make a piggy bank is to take tin can. It could be coffee jar with plastic cover.
- The first step is to wash the jar of coffee residues and use scissors or a knife to make a hole in the center of the plastic lid. The hole should be of such a size that coins and bills fit freely inside the jar.
- The next step is to decorate the body of the piggy bank. Multi-colored shoe laces may be suitable for this purpose. Before you start decorating, you need to put the lid on the jar to avoid problems with closing and opening the piggy bank.
- To make the piggy bank striped, you should alternate the laces different colors. Using a hot glue gun, glue each lace to the can, wrapping it around it.
Glass jar
- If you are using a glass jar, then you also need to make a hole in the lid.
- Then you can take a sheet of corrugated paper and wrap it around the prepared jar. You can cut sheets of different colors and glue them together. Thus, the piggy bank will be multi-colored. Having placed the sheet on the table, the jar must be placed in the middle of the sheet and carefully wrapped in it.
- Wrap the string over the leaf near the neck of the jar, tying a bow, or glue the string using a hot glue gun. Cut off the excess paper so that the lid is visible. The jar - the piggy bank is ready!
Piggy bank - pig
To make a funny piggy bank you will need:
- plastic bottle;
- scissors;
- scotch;
- pink paint (aerosol) or self-adhesive film;
- cardboard for making pig ears.
- Taking a plastic bottle, you need to cut off the front and back parts from it.
- Now these parts should be connected to each other by inserting one into the other. You can secure them together with tape or immediately wrap them with self-adhesive film.
- If there is no film available, then you need to paint the resulting part with pink paint and wait until the product dries.
- Using scissors or a knife, cut a hole on top for bills and coins.
- To turn a bottle into a pig, you need to glue four bottle caps to the base instead of legs. If there are no lids, then matchboxes or paper crumpled into a ball will do. Glue the ears cut out of cardboard on top, draw a tail and two eyes.
Your piggy bank is ready!
Shoe box
One of the most common items in the house is the shoebox.
She can too get a second life and help save up for your next pair of shoes.
Taking old box From shoes and a piece of interesting fabric you can make an original piggy bank. Fabric can be used jeans.
- After measuring the box, you need to cut the fabric to the required size and use it again. glue gun. If you have a stapler, it will do a great job of covering the box with fabric. On top of the lid you can glue a pocket from used jeans, which will serve as a good addition for storing banknotes.
- Decorate the lined piggy bank with buttons different sizes and colors, large pins or badges can be attached.
- Glue to the bottom of the box plastic caps from bottles, so the piggy bank acquired legs. The product is ready!
Piggy bank chest of drawers
If you want to store your accumulated banknotes and coins separately, sorting them by denomination, then good decision will be used to create a piggy bank matchboxes.
You will need a glue gun, self-adhesive film different colors and plastic decorative beads. You can use buttons to create such a chest of drawers.
- Let's take 10 boxes. Having separated them, you need to glue 5 pieces together, stacking them on top of each other. We get 2 parts. Then glue the sides to each other.
- If everything is done correctly, then you will see a product resembling a doll chest of drawers, consisting of ten drawers, five rows of two drawers.
- Now you need to cut it out self-adhesive film strip measuring 28x5 cm and wrap the boxes with it.
- All that remains is to stick it on drawers decorative beads that will act as handles. The boxes themselves can be decorated as desired. A chest of drawers can be decorated with buttons, and you can also make dresser legs out of buttons by gluing them to the bottom of the product.
The piggy bank is ready, you can sort the coins and bills into the boxes!
Good afternoon, dear needlewomen!
How to save money for a vacation, for a phone, for a computer, for a fur coat? We need to put it off. Where? To the piggy bank! If you don’t have a piggy bank, this is a good reason to make one yourself!
DIY piggy bank- This is a useful investment, and also very budget-friendly. A piggy bank is also a very worthwhile birthday or wedding gift for newlyweds.
How to make a piggy bank with your own hands
Did you know that making a piggy bank is much easier than you thought? To make this item, anything will suit you: Banks, boxes, bottles, toys, you can decorate it with ribbons, paper, bows, ropes, beads, lace, this list can be endless.
Before making a piggy bank, choose a style and shape, think about how to design the piggy bank, what you will save for, perhaps make the inscription “At sea”, “for a fur coat”... Select a suitable container without flaws and dents, check that the lid is tight was closing. Having decided on the container and design, sketch out a sketch of the finished product - how you want it to look, where the decorative materials and inscriptions will be located.
If you make a piggy bank from a shoe box using decoupage technique, it will be different from the same technique, but on a glass jar. In any case, first prepare the base for coating - clean the box of labels, wash the jar, degrease with alcohol, make holes in the right places.
DIY piggy bank from a glass jar.
One of the lightest models of piggy banks. First, choose a beautiful jar, maybe a regular two- or three-liter one. The lid of the jar should be tin; it will be easiest to make a hole in it.
We make a slot for the lid according to the size of the bills or coins that you will store in it.
First, we clean and degrease the jar, and decorate it according to our design. You can leave the jar unpainted and watch how capital accumulates. Another option is to paint the piggy bank with paints. We can paste pictures onto the jar using the decoupage technique, decorate the jar with lace or beads, fabric, and we can knit a cover for the jar with crochet or knitting needles.
DIY cardboard piggy bank.
We choose the appropriate cardboard box, perfect for storing shoes. We already had an article on decorating a cardboard box - a casket, but by making a hole in the lid, any box can be turned into a casket.
So, take any shoebox or make your own. First prime the surface with white acrylic paint or PVA glue.
We cut out a hole for money and process the edges. The box can be decorated with fabric, newspapers, cut paper bills, leather, velvet, photographs...
We offer a master class on making a piggy bank from cardboard. (master class from TheVovkacom channel)
Cut out the base for the piggy bank from cardboard.
We make holes for the lace.
We collect the box.
We thread the lace into the holes made by the nail.
The box is simple to make and requires little investment in terms of budget and time.
How to make a piggy bank from cardboard video
Piggy bank from a toy.
It's simple and original idea, such a piggy bank from an old toy can be given to a child or teenager, he will save for a phone, a bicycle or a computer. Or for a new toy.
How to make it? Very simple. You need to remove the filler from the body of the toy, insert a plastic jar with a lid into the toy, and make a hole in the lid. We fill the empty spaces with padding polyester and sew up the toy.
Piggy bank from a toyPiggy bank from a plastic bottle.
We will make a piggy bank from a plastic bottle traditional form- this is a pig. (Master class of the Domino Show channel). The bottle cap will serve as a snout.
piggy bank from a plastic bottleWe clean the surface of the plastic bottle, cut out a strip of fabric the size of this bottle.
Glue a strip of fabric to the jar.
Take small lids, for example, from juice - these will be the legs. Place them symmetrically around the piglet’s body so that the piggy bank becomes stable.
Glue the lids onto the piggy bank.
Cut out pig ears from cardboard.
Cut the same ones from fabric.
Cover the cardboard on both sides with fabric, forming ears.
We place the ears on the head.
Don't forget to make black eyes and a slot in the piggy bank.
This is such a cute piggy bank made from a plastic bottle!
Also watch the video tutorial on how to make a piggy bank from a plastic bottle with your own hands.
Piggy bank from a plastic bottle video
Text prepared by: Veronica
All people have desires and dreams that require money. But, as you know, it is generally very difficult to collect the required amount, because... Other needs constantly arise. It is for such cases that there are piggy banks - products where you can store the collected money without any problems.
Nuances
If you want to figure out how to make a piggy bank with your own hands, it’s worth considering that it can open, or it can be irrevocably closed. Those. To get money, you just have to ruin it - break it or tear it apart. This is also worth considering when creating a piggy bank.
There are various ways to make a piggy bank with your own hands. For one of them you will need cardboard, paper and various little things for decoration. You can also take an old small shoebox and simply decorate it. So, having the base available, you just need to decorate it well. For this you may need everything you can get your hands on. Colored or corrugated paper, fabrics, ribbons, beads, magazine clippings - there are many options, you just need to decide what you want to see in the end. The main thing is not to forget to make a slot in the piggy bank for throwing in money, and also decide whether it will open.
Absolutely simple solution The question of how to make a piggy bank with your own hands is to make it from a jar. For this you will need the right size capacity - one-, two-, three-liter jar and metal lid. First, you need to carefully make a hole in the lid with a knife, but so that sharp corners went inside, otherwise you could get hurt by the metal. Next, the jar is rolled up with a regular key to close the preservation. That's it, the piggy bank is ready. Now you need to decorate it. To do this, you can use stained glass paints, with which the product is simply painted, paper, fabric. You can knit or embroider clothes for a jar. The main thing is that the piggy bank is not open, because... Constantly counting money through glass will not lead to anything good.
Using the same principle as using a jar, you can make a piggy bank from a bottle. But the hole for throwing money in will not be in the cap, but on the side, closer to the top of the bottle. You can also decorate it completely in various ways, it all depends on the preferences of the master.
If desired, you can also make unusual piggy banks, the purpose of which only the master himself will know. For example, the idea of creating a piggy bank from an ordinary tennis ball would be very original. First, you need to draw eyes and a big smile on the ball. Next sharp knife In place of the smiley, you need to make a slot, which will “eat the money.” At the top of the piggy bank you can make a small handle using a regular cord, by which the product will be hung. And you will need to throw in coins by pressing on the sides of the ball after the piggy bank simply “opens its mouth.”
You can also easily learn how to make a piggy bank with your own hands from a material such as plaster. First, the solution needs to be stirred to the desired consistency - not too liquid and not too thick, ideally 1:1 with water. Next, everything is poured into a plastic bottle, after which it is carefully pumped into inflatable ball, tightly attached to the neck. Thanks to light rotations, the plaster hardens, then the ball is carefully cut off and a blank for the piggy bank remains in your hands. At this time, while the plaster has not yet completely hardened, you must not forget and be sure to make a gap for the small items. Next, it is decided what kind of piggy bank it will be. The most popular option is piggy. All that remains for the little animal is to attach plasticine legs, ears, decorate the face and the product itself in pink. Everything is ready. In a similar way, you can create original piggy banks as gifts for family and friends.
