Make your own Mortgage Piggy and save £5!!

Trollydolly_2

I just posted this in the mortgage piggy sticky but just to save it getting lost once people keep posting heres the instructions again..........

I just spent the afternoon making "hermione" the pig. Im also going to make a cow, sheep, chicken and horse so i have one for 10p's ,20p's, 50p's and £1 and one for small change.

it cost me 50p for 25 baloons and 80p for a bag of flour. Got lots of old newspapers that people leave on the plane after flights so im sorted!!

Hermione is just outside drying and ill paint her tomorrow!! Ive had real fun doing it!!!
Ill see if i can take a piccy of her tomorrow!

Im sure my boyfs daughter will love to help me make the others when she comes on wednesday. He he he im all excited at filling them up!!!

If you want to know how I made her heres my instructions Blue Peter Style.........

You Will Need...
Flour
Water
Balloon
Newspaper/Toilet roll
Pop Bottle with cap big enough for coins to come out. (ive used a smoothie bottle)
Large Bottle top
Cardboard pieces in shape of ears and legs

1) Blow up balloon to piggybank size
2) Mix water and flour to make paste
3)Tear strips of paper and put all over balloon using paste to stick
4) Do plenty of layers
5)Cut out ears and legs and stick to balloon in right place, use rolled up newspaper to bulk out, cover with paper mache strips.
6)Cut top off pop bottle and stick to the bottom of pig using strips of sticky paper to hold down. Dont cover the lid or u wont get your money out!!!
7) stick pop lid on for nose and cover in sticky paper
8) Leave to dry
9) pop the balloon inside
10) if its not very strong add more sticky layers and leave to dry again
11) Cut out hole for money to go in
12)Cut hole underneath in bottle top to let money out when unscrewed
13)Paint Pig!!!


Hope you all have a happy pig!!!!
Im soooooooo excited to paint it!!
Boyf keeps laughing at me because it was such a childish thing to be doing all afternoon but i really enjoyed it!!!!!

dippy-dora_2

I think you could buy flour for 8p at quik save ages ago, don't know how much it is now.

Trollydolly_2

I was so excited about making my piggy i just went to the corner shop and it was 80p!!!!! if id have waited till tomorrow im sure i could have got it cheap but .....
as they say on the disney addy....
"im too excited!!!" lol

KatieKins

Thanks for the instructions, I think Im gonna make me a little piggy now too!!

30nab

HI Trolly dolly!

Sure I'm being thick but not sure about the plastic bottle location in pig making! Want to make one with kids this weeekend - is there a picture of your pig so I can see how it works?

Phil

Gray0103

I just used an empty whisky bottle, I've found that Highland Park has the biggest top, so far (hic!)

Hermia

Sounds fun, but make sure you take the proceeds to the bank regularly. I used to save spare cash in a piggy bank and a whisky bottle, but unfortunately the burglars took them both. It took ages getting the money back from the insurers and I had to estimate how much was in them both.

charlie007

and also not to be a kill joy but the pigs should be emptied as often as possible so that they save on the intrest, my mortgage calculates intrest daily so my pig is going to have an empty stomach quite often.

Trollydolly_2

Im such a bad mortgage pig mummy!! She is still black and white with no hole in her. Im useless. I ran out of time and havnt finished her off.
The idea behin the milk bottle top is to cut it as near to the lid as possible and secure to the underneath of the baloon with tape, then put strips of mache around it to hold it in place. Then u can undo it at the bottom to get the money out.
I still havnt worked out how to put a piccy n here so i cant show u what i mean.
Anyway happy piggying and i think im going to finish her this weekend, i feel bad for not doing her now.