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DIY Girl’s Personalized Piggy Bank

A piggy bank with a castle painted on the side next to a castle of coins | OrnamentShop.comDiscovering unique Gifts For Girls that are fun, cute and activity-based can be challenging in this world of electronics. Personalized Piggy Banks are special, but when you pair them with similar themed coin models, you have an entertaining gift fit for a royal princess!

If you want to encourage your little girl to save her pennies for a rainy day, we’ve got the solution! Make a castle out of rolls of coins or an adorable ladybug out of spare change and give these gifts for girls with personalized piggy banks for a unique experience she is guaranteed to enjoy.

Girl's piggy bank with pink castle on the side | OrnamentShop.com

Coin Models And Personalized Piggy Banks – Perfect Gifts For Girls

Don’t consider yourself crafty? With a little imagination and a lot of packing tape, you can build the castle of her dreams! Coin models paired with personalized piggy banks give that personal touch to a gift that she will continue to use year after year, and you’ll be surprised at how much you’ll enjoy releasing your inner artist!

Two coin piles molded into a ladybug and a castle | OrnamentShop.com

ANY denomination can be used to make these coin models for personalized piggy banks. Decide how much you want to spend and use our chart below to determine what rolls of coins you will purchase at your local bank to make these handmade gifts for girls.

Supplies:

  • Themed Personalized Piggy Banks – OrnamentShop.com
  • Rolls of Coins (listed are the costs for buying coin rolls – decide before you go to the bank!)
    • A roll of pennies = $0.50 (50 count)
    • A roll of nickels = $2.00 (40 count)
    • A roll of dimes = $5.00 (50 count)
    • A roll of quarters = $10.00 (40 count)
    • A roll of half dollars = $10.00 (20 count)
    • A roll of dollars = $25.00 (25 count)
  • Clear Packing Tape (do not use scotch tape – it won’t be strong enough!)

Tubes of coins partially unwrapped | OrnamentShop.com

Castle Coin Model – Princess Themed Personalized Piggy Banks Gifts For Girls

  1. Create a castle floor by taping three rolls of coins together like logs.
  2. Build your castle walls with rolls of coins, making a square, and securely taping them so they stand upright. Tape the castle floor to the walls.
  3. Cut two rolls of coins in half and build up the four corner rolls higher, securely taping them. Remove two coins from each of the half rolls and tape the two coins together in a point on top.
    Note: Be sure to use larger coins for the corner walls so that you will be able to stack smaller coins to make the turrets appear spire-like. We used nickels for the walls and dimes for the spires.
  4. For the center turret, tape together three rolls of coins into a triangle and tape to the floor of the castle.
  5. Tape together three more rolls of coins, but use a smaller coin rolls and secure to the center turret.
    Note: We used rolls of quarters for the bottom and rolls of pennies for the top.
  6. Tape three coins together to make a point on top of the turret.
    Note: Make sure that this center spire is the tallest to give it a castle appearance.

Note: To make our castle we used dimes: 17 rolls dimes = $85, 4 rolls nickels = $8, 3 rolls quarters = $30, 3 rolls pennies = $1.50. If you use all pennies, you can make this castle for $13.50.

Tubes of coins stacked to resemble a castle | OrnamentShop.com

Ladybug Coin Model – Girly Themed Personalized Piggy Banks Gifts For Girls

Note: You will need two colors of coins to make a ladybug, so you will need either pennies or dollar coins to make this work.

  1. In order to create the ladybug body, you will need to create a rounded oval with the coins, so use a full roll for the middle and make the two logs next to it slightly shorter, the two next to those slightly smaller.
  2. On one end, use a quarter of a roll to make the head.
  3. Completely take apart a roll of coins and tape them individually over the base that you built.
  4. Build the head area up using another layer of the individual coins.
  5. Using another color of coins, make the ladybug spots.
  6. To make the feet, overlap two different sized coins for each leg and tape to the underside of the ladybug. There should be six legs.
  7. Bend two paper clips to use as the antennae and poke into the tape in the head area.

Note: To make our ladybug we used dimes: 4 rolls dimes = $20, 6 quarters = $1.50 and 7 pennies = $0.07 for a total value of $21.57.

Coins taped together to resemble a lady bug | OrnamentShop

Girls love deconstructing their castles or ladybugs and feeding them to their little piggies! All princesses want to receive these types of gifts for girls. With more than 10 girl themes to choose from, don’t be surprised if you end up getting birthday wish lists for personalized piggy banks!

Girl's piggy bank with a red ladybug painted on the side next to a coin sculpture ladybug | OrnamentShop.com

OrnamentShop.com has a variety of gifts for girls as well as personalized piggy banks that come in both large and small sizes. The mini personalized piggy banks come with matching gift boxes that make them ready to give as is. The top notch hand-personalization you get on all personalized piggy banks at OrnamentShop.com is unrivaled on the internet!

Share your creative coin models with other moms who want to teach their little girls about the value of saving pennies for a rainy day!

Four personalized piggy banks for girls: Green with polka dots, painted with pink castle, painted with ladybugs, and painted with butterflies | OrnamentShop.com