Penny Jar

Looking for a neat way to get rid of all your obsolete pennies, and get a unique change jar or vase out of it.

Here's your answer, the penny jar!

For this project you will need a jar or vase, lots of pennies and of course a hot glue gun and glue.

First wash your vase with dish soap to get a nice clean surface to glue onto.

(Trust me if you skip this step and leave factory grease or oil on the container surface, you will be swearing at the jar because nothing will stick to it and you'll have to put money into it before you even start for all the cursing you've just done.)

Put your vase on a nice flat and level surface, and start your first row making sure the pennies are touching the counter top ensuring you will be level all the way around. All you need is a little dab of hot glue on each penny, you don't want to much or it'll be to much work to clean up afterwards.

This would be when you can decide a pattern, such as all facing heads, all facing tails, alternating, only shiny ones, only old coins etc... be creative!

I went with all facing tails and only Canadian coins as to get the maple leafs everywhere.

The second row you will need to make sure the coins are in between two from the previous row and touching them, then make your way all the way around and check to see if you're still level at the end.

If you get to the last one and it doesn't fit, I was over lapping it. You could also cut them with tin snips if you only need half a penny, but mine where fitting perfectly without having to cut them. (I got lucky with the vase!)