Many people quite often accumulate small change, which, due to its large quantity and the weight becomes inconvenient to carry in a wallet, purse or pocket. Of course, the money is small, but if you collect it, you will eventually be able to save up a tidy sum and use it to buy something nice for yourself or your loved ones. In order to collect change you need money box. True modern models piggy banks They are not cheap, and then they will have to be broken. Isn't it better to do piggy bank independently, and such that it does not need to be broken?

1. In order to make your own elegant piggy bank, you can use a regular small jar with a screw-on lid as a base. This could be a jar of pickled cucumbers or baby food. You will also need glue, several beautifully shaped pasta for decoration and paint. This can be spray paint or regular nail polish.

2. Pasta must be in its original shape.

3. Unscrew the lid.

4. We pierce it with a knife.

5. And make a hole for coins.

6. Now let's get down to the most important thing - decorating the jar.

7. Apply glue randomly on its surface in thin strips.

8. Leave for a while for the glue to harden.

9. Glue the pasta to the jar evenly, but in a chaotic manner.

10. It turns out to be such a jar.

11. Now the jar needs to be painted. In this case, the choice was made in favor of gold spray paint. It is ideal for saving, because gold will attract gold, in this case coins. It is better to paint the can not at home, but on the street, in the garage or on the balcony. Be sure to wear rubber gloves on your hands. Paint the lid first, carefully set it aside, and then start painting the jar itself. Try to apply the paint evenly, without missing any “bare” areas. We leave it to dry outside or in a well-ventilated area for a day, after which our piggy bank can be safely used for its intended purpose.

12. It turns out to be such an unusual, but very beautiful piggy bank. It can be placed anywhere at home: in the kitchen, on the desktop, in the hallway, or at work in the office to collect excess change there. Once it is full, there is no need to break it. All you need to do is carefully open the lid, take out your wealth and start accumulating new ones. For fun, you can only collect 10-ruble coins in it. Then, even in such a small piggy bank, quite a decent amount will be collected, which can be spent on something pleasant.

Many people have accumulated a lot of these cans, but it’s a shame to throw them away. This is the way to “recycle” this stuff. For work we will need: a glass coffee jar, instant glue, scissors, pliers, a stationery knife, white acrylic paint, needles, threads. For decoration you need: chintz or any other fabric, lace, beads, dried flowers (hydrangea), scrap paper, frame, decorative pendant coins.

1. While the jar is sour in water (to easily remove the wrappers), take the lid and remove white circle from the bottom, but don’t throw it away, we will still need it a lot!

2. Great care is needed at this stage! In order to throw coins in, you need a hole in the lid, which we will now make.

We take pliers and clamp the largest coin that you have in use (in Ukraine this is 5 kopecks). Turn on the stove and hold the coin over the heat for a little over a minute, it should start to turn red. Then carefully lower the coin and form a hole in the lid. Let me warn you right away: tweezers or anything else is not suitable for this, because... You can burn your hands, but in general the hole is made quite easily and without much effort.

3. Paint the lid white on both sides acrylic paint. We cut out the lace with which we will decorate the lid (calculate the size so that it is enough to wrap it inside) and make an incision in the place where the hole is near the lid.

In order for us to get a neat hole, we need to insert the lace from the front side into the hole on the wrong side and secure it with glue (I used 2 more strips of white paper for secure gluing). Next, we beautifully bend the remaining lace inward and secure it with a white circle from the bottom, in which we then also cut a hole with a stationery knife.

5. Decorate the edge of the lid as your imagination desires. I used lace, beads, hole punching butterflies and a thin strip of fabric. The lid with the hole is ready!

I cut a piece of calico fabric the width of the jar (but slightly less than the length, so that there would be space in front not covered with fabric, because according to my idea, there should be a frame made of cyroplast with a lace heart in front), folded it and processed the edges. I sewed decor (lace and beads) onto the fabric and instantly glued it to the jar.

Next, I took that same frame and also glued it to the jar, decorating the edges with different decor: hole-punching butterflies, decorations made from strips of watercolor paper, beads, dried flowers, decorative pendant coins.

The main thing in a piggy bank is the internal volume, design and level of difficulty of getting money back. When deciding how to make a piggy bank with your own hands, it is advisable to immediately think through these questions. The easiest way to make a piggy bank is from a glass jar, a plastic ball or a plastic figurine. All of them, if necessary, can be decorated beyond recognition. For example, you can completely cover their surface with self-hardening modeling compounds, giving the product any shape.

Selecting a "bank"

The choice of base for a piggy bank is influenced by two conditions - what will be stored in it - bills or coins and how it will be decorated. Obviously, wide containers are better suited for banknotes, and coins can also be poured into shaped narrow bottle jars.

If the glass jar will not be camouflaged, it is better to choose beautiful shapes - barrel jars, square, shaped, from completely transparent or, on the contrary, colored glass - that is, those whose shape is good in itself. For a piggy bank, the internal capacity of which will be hidden from view, in principle, any jar will do.

Features of the “contribution”

The receiving hole is usually made in the lid. They will tell you how to make a piggy bank with your own hands from a jar photo different options piggy bank

If the piggy bank provides for a deposit “with return during storage,” it is better to choose the option with a screw-on lid. If a long-term deposit is provided and funds will not be withdrawn, you can completely close the lid. It is easier to cut a hole in a plastic lid than in a tin one, but the plastic is not as beautiful. If you are planning a piggy bank for banknotes, you need a long thin slot or a round hole into which the bill is inserted, rolled up into a tube.

How to make a hole in plastic

A hole in a plastic lid or any plastic product is cut with a breadboard knife (preferably on a block to protect the table) or melted with a hot knife.

1. Prepare a block of wood (you can use plywood or a piece of wood) and place the lid on the block inside out.
2. Draw a “receiving slot” on the lid - it should be twice the thickness of a coin, and 5 mm long than the diameter of the largest coin that will fall into the piggy bank.
3. Using a breadboard knife, cut the long sides of the hole. You need to cut each side with one strong deep movement, straight through, trying to hold the knife blade at an angle so that the cut is not perpendicular to the surface of the lid, but at an angle of 30-45 degrees. Then the receiving hole will be wider on the inside than on the outside. This greatly facilitates the subsequent extraction of money by “shaking out” or “using a knife.” Be careful, the knife breaks easily and the cut often ends up being longer than intended.
4. It is better to cut the short sides of the hole with a semicircular wood chisel - this will give a neat cut, or melt the side edges of the hole with a hot nail of a suitable diameter. When the plastic has cooled, the bumps and burrs need to be cut off - they are unsightly and will interfere with getting out the coins.

Tin lid: cut a hole

1. Prepare a wooden block (you can use plywood) and place the lid on the block “wrong side up”.
2. Draw a “reception slot” on the cover.
3. Place a wide chisel exactly along the cut line and hit it hard with a hammer. Usually one strong blow is enough to cut through. So cut both long sides of the coin slot.
4. To cut through the short sides, you need a narrow chisel. You can also carefully cut the strip of tin formed between the long cuts in the middle with scissors, bend both halves of the strip inward, shorten it to 5 mm and beat it with a hammer.

Decorating the piggy bank

painting

Glass can be painted with stained glass paints on the outside or inside. Place a printout of the design inside the jar and stick it with tape so it doesn’t slip off. On the outside of the jar, repeat the pattern using purchased material - “volumetric outline” (it is sold in stores for artists). Wait until it dries. Fill the contour cells with stained glass varnishes.

Decorating with self-hardening modeling compound

"Potty"

1. Knead the mass, roll it out on plastic wrap into a layer, cut out a square 3-4 cm larger than the diameter of the lid. This will be a “napkin”; its edges can be made scalloped.
2. Place the lid with the receiving hole on the square in the center, cut through the hole, as if using a stencil, a hole in the workpiece.
3. Screw the lid (or put it on if it is plastic) onto the jar.
4. Carefully lift the square and place it on closed jar, so that the holes in the mass and the lid coincide. Remove the film, crimp the square around the neck of the jar, making beautiful folds. The film gives an even glossy effect; if you roll out the mass on fabric, the structure of the fabric will be imprinted on the mass.
5. Make a “ribbon” and a “bow” from the remaining mass, secure them by finally squeezing the neck of the jar. You will get this “country pot of jam”. However, you can also take a real textile ribbon.
6. You can make a decorative flower or butterfly and decorate the top of the piggy bank or the jar itself, from the bottom.
7. Having painted the “napkin” and “butterfly”, you can add rhinestones

"Stone"

1. Knead the mass, roll it out onto plastic wrap into a layer.
2. Place the layer on the jar, cut it opposite the receiving hole.
3. Wrap the jar, compress the mass, forming an uneven “stone” surface.

Actually, you can create any sculpture using this type of molding. You will get an excellent piggy bank if you decorate a glass jar using the decoupage technique. Another way is to decorate the jar with sequins, glass beads using special glue for glass.