If you're looking for a craft project that uses household objects, Kids Vermont contributor Elisa Järnefelt has a fun idea. Below, find her visual directions...
If you’re looking for a craft project that uses household objects, Kids Vermont contributor Elisa Järnefelt has a fun idea. Below, find her visual directions for how to make a hobby horse — a classic toy that kids have been using to gallop around their homes and yards for hundreds of years. All you’ll need is a wooden dowel, an old sock, yarn, felt, buttons and some soft material for stuffing. Järnefelt sewed on the horse’s button eyes and used a crochet hook to create the mane. However, she says, the eyes can be easily affixed using a hot glue gun. The process of attaching the mane can be simplified by using a needle to pull yarn through the sock (see third drawing). Happy crafting… and yee haw!
Credit: Elisa Järnefelt
Credit: Elisa Järnefelt
Directions for making attaching the yarn mane:
Credit: Elisa Järnefelt
This article was originally published in Seven Days’ monthly parenting magazine, Kids VT.
Elisa Järnefelt is an illustrator and writer who lives in the Champlain Valley with her husband, daughter and senior dog. She enjoys learning the names of backyard birds, planting "one more thing" in her garden, creating comics and designing new...
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