Craft: Pig money box
Turn a simple toilet paper roll into a piggy money box! With pink paper snout and ears, and a coin slot on top, you can easily create your own farm‑style savings buddy. It’s a fun, hands‑on craft that encourages creativity and teaches you about saving money in a playful way.
What do you need:
- Toilet paper roll (one per pig)
- Pink paint
- Paintbrush
- Sturdy dark pink and light pink paper (for head, back, ears, and snout)
- Black marker
- Wiggly eyes
- Scissors
- Glue
- Pencil
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Step 1: Take your toilet paper roll. Cut a narrow slit in the top center of the roll where you can insert coins.
Step 2: Paint the outside of the roll pink and let the paint dry completely before continuing.
Step 3: Take the light pink paper and draw a circle with little legs underneath using a pencil (see example). Make sure the head is larger than the toilet paper roll (about 1 cm bigger). Then cut this
out twice.
Step 4: On one of the two cutouts, draw a curly tail with a black marker.
Step 5: Take the dark pink paper and cut out two small triangles for the ears and a small oval for the snout.
Step 6: Glue the ears and snout onto the cutout circle with legs that is still empty.
Step 7: Use a black marker to draw the nostrils on the snout and a smiling mouth. And stick the wiggly eyes on the pig.
Step 8: Glue the face onto the front of the toilet paper roll and the one with the tail onto the back.
Step 9: Let everything dry completely.
Step 10: Your piggy bank is now ready to start collecting coins!
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