Making a Travel Fund Airplane Piggy Bank

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September 10, 2018

Travel Fund - Airplane Piggy Bank - finished bank Do you have an empty vitamin bottle? Don't toss it out! You can upcycle your vitamin bottle into a piggy bank.

Some ideas of what you can make:

- pig
- lion
- cat
- dog
- worm
- car

The possibilities are endless!

I decided to make my piggy bank into an airplane and this piggy bank will serve like a "travel fund". You can stuff bills in the opening. You can apply this same concept to other containers like milk or water bottles (or the gallon ones).

Total Time: 35 minutes + drying time

Supplies:

vitamin container
scissors
hot glue
paint/paint brush
tape
craft sticks
water bottle cap

Steps:

Using an empty vitamin container, peel off the sticker for a clean surface.

Travel Fund - Airplane Piggy Bank - remove label

Travel Fund - Airplane Piggy Bank - label removedd

I went with an airplane theme (blue) so I painted the vitamin cap with this True Blue acrylic paint. Set aside and allow to dry.

Travel Fund - Airplane Piggy Bank - paint cap blue and allow to dry

Using scrap paper, I practiced and freehanded the airplane wings. Once you achieved the wings you like, you can cut them out from the color paper you wish to use. Crease a little on the wings to attach onto the vitamin container.

Travel Fund - Airplane Piggy Bank - working on wing template

Travel Fund - Airplane Piggy Bank - final wings cut from blue paper and creased for attachment

With a strip of paper, roll into tube, to create the airplane's turbine engines. You will need two.

Travel Fund - Airplane Piggy Bank - two strips of paper for engines

Travel Fund - Airplane Piggy Bank - roll paper into a tube

Tape on the wings. I also freehand the airplane's tail and taped it on.

Travel Fund - Airplane Piggy Bank - tape on wings

Travel Fund - Airplane Piggy Bank - make and tape on tail

Travel Fund - Airplane Piggy Bank - front view of bottle with wings and tail in place

For the airplane's propeller, I used craft sticks, a water bottle cap and secured in place with hot glue. I also taped on the airplane's turbine engines.