Comments on: How to Make a Paper Mache Piggy Bank

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Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:05:00 +0000

[...] Paper mache your own piggy bank — wow, this one is fancy! Oink! [...]

By: Haley

Haley — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:12:16 +0000

I love your paper-mache projects! I’m a newspaper deliverer and haven’t known what to do with all of my extra papers. I have more than a hundred left over every week. I definitely think I’m going to try some of your projects. Thanks for posting this. I love your pigs and your elephants. I’m emptying out a salt container as I type!

By: Bikram Miami

Bikram Miami — Thu, 05 May 2011 19:52:30 +0000

That came out really cool.

By: Leah

Leah — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:37:02 +0000

sorry if this has been mentioned somewhere else in the blog… i still haven’t completely explored it yet!

By: Leah

Leah — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:34:14 +0000

that’s a GREAT idea! i’ll suggest it to my neighbor! if only it would work with my dog….

By: Leah

Leah — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:31:31 +0000

Last year i made a lady bug bank for my sister and i made a little thing in mine (can’t think of the name) but i cut a hole in the bank but left just a little bit of paper mache that wasn’t cut on either end. the one end i left attatched to the bank, the other end i turned into a tab. since it would be pulled in and stuff, i reinforced that particular area with duct tape and affew more paper mache layers. i’m not sure how it would work using Jonni’s method, though. i used my balloon method (mentioned way down the list)

By: Leah

Leah — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:19:14 +0000

This Piggy Bank is extremely cute! If anyone were to want to do one with a body shape that is harder to find (I have done a snake) i have a great and fairly cheap suggestion. All i did was get a ballon ( you can get the round kind for bigger projects, but i used one of the skinny ones clowns make shapes out of) and squeezed it into the shape that i liked. I then covered it in 7 to8 layers of paper mache (althogh how many layers is up to you. i like to go thick). When it was dry, all i did was cut a slit where the coins would go in. in when you do this, it pops the ballon and it shrivls up and peels away from the paper mache, and you can then pull it out the cut you have made. from there, you just use the directions Jonni gave you for adding limbs and paint it, and then your done! good luck and have fun!
~Leah~

By: Abbey

Abbey — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:31:30 +0000

This is so cute !
My aunt loves pigs, and I love making things so I want to give it a try. I just have a question, how did you get the color like that?
You probably said in the tutorial, I just did not pick it up.

By: jaya

jaya — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 09:20:23 +0000

it is very good just luv it

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 14:53:20 +0000

Thanks soooo much!