How to Make a Bleach Bottle Piggy Bank
- 1). Cut the toilet paper roll into 4 equal rings for the piggy bank's feet. Paint the rings inside and out with black paint. Let them dry. If you are making your piggy's feet out of corks or wooden spools, paint them black and let them dry.
- 2). Rinse out an empty bleach bottle and leave the lid off until it is all the way dry and stops smelling like bleach. Punch a small hole in the bottom of the bottle. Use a small awl or a small Philip's head screw driver to punch the hole. Try to punch it in the very middle of the bottom so that the tail will be centered. The handle will be the piggy's nose and the lid and spout will be the piggy's nostrils.
- 3). Put the bottle so that the bottom faces to the left and the spout and lid face to the right. Draw a line on the top with a black marker that is 2-inches long. The line should be half-way between the end of the handle and the bottom where you punched the hole for the tail. Use scissors to punch all along this line. It is where you will put the coins into the piggy bank.
- 4). Cut eyeballs out of black felt. Glue them onto the bottle. Place one eye on each side of the handle. Trace around the lid onto a piece of pink felt. Cut it out and glue the felt to the lid. Use the black marker to make two nostrils. This is the piggy's nose. Cut out pink and black spots. Glue them in place on the body. Cut out two pink triangles for ears. Glue ears at a jaunty angle, either pointing up or down. Put one ear on each side of the bottle above where you put the eyes. Cut out some red lips. Glue them beneath the nose.
- 5). Push the thick black pipe cleaner into the hole you punched. Coil the pipe cleaner to make a proper piggy's tail. If it looks like the tail may fall out, cut out a small pink felt circle about 1/2-inch in diameter. Slit the center of this circle just enough to admit the end of the pipe cleaner. Glue the circle to the piggy so it helps hold the pipe cleaner in place.
- 6). Glue the feet on so that the piggy bank can stand up without wobbling. After all the glue dries, begin filling the pig with coins.
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