Craftory: Alexander Hamilton Piggy Bank | PragerU Kids

[Music] hi parents before we start the episode remember that your family can enjoy hundreds of fun and educational free videos for kids of all ages be sure to subscribe and get all the new shows and updates at Prager [Music] kids.com [Music] history welcome to craftery crafts history and your questions I'm Jill and today we're making a DIY piggy bank to learn about one of the United States most brilliant founding fathers Alexander Hamilton OH we've got a question what does the founding father have to do with the piggy bank ah fair question a founding father of the United States was someone who helped create America's system of government in 1776 and the years after when we declared freedom from Great Britain there were many founding fathers George Washington John Adams Thomas Jefferson James Madison and Benjamin Franklin were just a few now Alexander Hamilton was also a founding father and he worked hard to get our US constitution approved in 1788 Hamilton was also named the first US Secretary of Treasury and helped create how our money works here in America his face is on our $10 bill which which is why we're making a piggy bank today I'll tell you more but first here's what you'll need to make our craft a plastic bottle this one used to have juice in it a black marker pink foam craft sheets I have light and dark here scissors googly eyes a hole punch bottle caps a hot glue gun and an exacto knife now these are for your parent or a grownup to help you because they X-Acto Knife is really really really sharp let's start building our bank I have a light pink foam sheet and my bottle here we're going to wrap it around the bottle let's see ah perfect now let's cut off the [Music] extra put this aside lay this piece flat and I'm going to draw a coin slot right in the middle of it a rectangle just just like that cut this out I'm going to poke a hole there we go done hot glue this pink sheet to the bottle and make sure that you dot glue right around the coin slot so it stays stury stick the bottle on press it carefully put another line of glue here let's do it on the inside of this coin slot too and perfect about Al Alexander Hamilton he was born in the 1750s in the British West Indies also known as the Caribbean and had a hard life as a boy his father left and then his mother died when he was young he was an orphan with no money but was very smart and wanted to succeed people in his community believed he could achieve great things if he got an education so they bought him a ticket to sail to America more about Hamilton in a minute but first let's make our coin slot in our bank here's what you're going to ask your grown-up to do cut out the coin slot on the plastic bottle with the sharp xacto knife there we go next we're going to take our four Black Bottle Caps and these are going to be our piggy banks feet take the bottle you're going to flip it over so the coin slot is on the bottom we are going to hot glue caps on either side of the scene okay 1 2 3 4 four piggy feet and he stands up now back to Alexander Hamilton eventually he traveled to New York City and used his talents to fight for Freedom he bravely fought in the American Revolution with George Washington and Hamilton was also a great great Rider many say that our US Constitution became law because of essays that he wrote in 1789 President Washington named Hamilton the first US Secretary of Treasury oh a quarter thanks and it's George Washington Hamilton's job was to make America's money system strong and he did it by creating a National Bank let's make our Piggies snout get your dark pink foam and take the cap off so that we can trace it to the right size there we go cut it out there we go now I want to cover the outside of my cap too so I'm going to cut a strip of dark pink foam that's wider than the side of this cap we're going to glue this cap on keeping the closed edge of our cap right on the edge of the strip and cut off the extra let's see if it fits ah there we go okay let's finish this snout get your black pen and color the top of your bottle cap you don't have to color the whole thing just most of it you'll see why in a second that should do it pull punch nostrils into the middle of the circle you just cut and glue it onto that bottle cap there we go we did it and every piggy bank of course needs [Music] eyes there we go oh he's cute I love him already now when Hamilton became Secretary of Treasury his first goal was to repay all the money the United States borrowed to fight the British it was about $75 million he said the debt of the United States was the price of Liberty Hamilton also wanted the treasury to create a United States Mint to make US coins a mint was created but didn't become part of the Treasury Department until 1873 it's time to make the ears let's go with our light pink foam and you're just going to draw a teardrop shape and then cut it out now take this shape and Trace another one so the ears are the same [Music] size now you could leave the ears like this but let's get fancy get your your dark pink foam Trace one of these onto the dark pink foam but we're going to make the inside of the ears so draw a little teardrop inside and we're going to cut out this little teardrop trace this little teardrop make another one for the other ear so we have two light pinks two dark pinks we're now going to hot glue them like this and make sure the bottom of the Teardrops are touching this little piggy went to Market who knows that one once you've glued your ears take your scissors and you're going to cut a little slit right at the bottom just like this once you've got this take a DOT of glue put it on one side of the slit and then fold the other side over to make it curved because every piggy bank needs real piggy ears there we go good let's glue it on to our bank right where a Piggy's ears should be oh he's so cute let's make his tail not done yet almost there draw a circle about the size of our bottle cap but it can be a little bit bigger if you want it to almost a circle now draw a swirly inside of your circle just like this cut the whole circle out on the outside now cut the line you made on the inside aha fun trick right this fat part that I'm holding in the middle we're going to glue that to our Piggy's bottom there's our Piggy's tail oh he's adorable I love him can we name him hammy get it hammy Hamilton Alexander Hamilton was one of our United States founding fathers who had many talents he fought in the American Revolution and made America's money system strong next time you see him on the $10 bill remember that thanks man we hope you had fun if you've got ideas or questions for our next craftery send them our way keep crafting keep learning and keep celebrating land of the free and Home of the Brave now let's find some loose change and bring home the bacon bye [Music] thank you for watching you know we've got more episodes right watch the whole series on our website and parents you can 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