Piggy Banks

This was a very fun and messy project!!

First, we got to blow up some balloons and mom taped legs, noses and ears on them. She used egg cartons for the nose and ears and for the legs on 2 of the piggies. On the other 2 piggies, we used toilet paper rolls, cut in half.




Then mommy made the gooey stuff. This is how she made it:

Mix 1 cup of flour into 1 cup of water until the mixture is thin and runny. Stir into 4 cups of boiling water. Simmer for about 3 minutes, then cool.

It did NOT turn out the way it was supposed to. It was very lumpy, but it did work! We all covered our piggies with strips of newspaper dipped in the goo. (mommy helped a bit)



Then we let them dry all night. Mom put on more gooey newspaper in the morning, then we got to paint them that evening!!

Everyone painted their pig their favorite color!
Madison's is a cute lil pink piggie.




Morgan painted hers orange and Hazel chose green. (she is obsessed with green right now)



After the paint dried, mom used a knife to cut a slot in the top for money to go in. It also popped the balloon and she pulled the pieces out. Some of the piggies weren't dry the whole way and started to collapse, but mom popped them back into shape!

Here are the artist's showing off their work.

And the finished piggies!