I have been working at a daycare since I recently moved and we don't have a large amount of funds given for activities so we like to used recycled materials for projects. The parents are a great help in this as they will save and bring in almost anything we ask.
I was searching on pinterest one day for some ideas to make with bottles (my boyfriend drinks a lot of apple juice!) and it hit me, something to make for the kiddos to actually use at home - a piggy bank! Kids can learn the value of saving money after making a fun craft!
First I had parents save and bring in empty apple juice bottles. You could use any bottle really but I made sure the spout was large enough to empty the coins out of when needed.
I washed out all the bottles and I cut a slit in the side with a sharp knife before I handed the bottles to the kids for painting.
The first step was to paint the entire bottle - I chose to paint mine pink but some children chose black. I did three coats of paint on mine but they did not have that much patience so some did one coat and others did two.
Once the bottles dried (the next day), I used a hot glue gun to add googly eyes, ears and feet. I had first decided to use tops of milk jars as the feet but I to collect all of those would take a little too much time so I bought a package of buttons at the dollarstore!
I put on the feet to keep the bank from rolling back and forth.
Here are my four feet - pink buttons but feel free to use anything you can think of :)
And here is his super cute face!
Some piggy's that the children made! They were pretty excited to take these home :)
The one thing I didn't think of which I wish I did was to add a pink pipe cleaner on the back as a curly tail!
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