There’s no neigh-saying that this isn’t a cute way to give your favorite candy stick a bit of flair! With a bit of felt and a few other supplies you can make this horse craft. Alternately, this craft can be used with a cardboard tube or wooden dowel.
Supplies
- Large or small candy stick, cardboard tube or wooden dowel
- Felt in whatever color you’d like for your horse
- Felt in a another color for the mane
- Black felt for the nostrils
- Thin ribbon or leather lacing
- Small googly eyes
- Fabric glue or hot glue gun
- Scissors
- Tweezers
Directions
- Cut a piece of felt wide enough to wrap around the stick overlapping a little to glue together. It should be long enough to cover about 1 ½ inches of a small candy stick, about 2 ½ inches of a large candy stick, or about 3 to 4 inches of a cardboard tube or wooden dowel.
- Wrap the felt around the stick overlapping the edge about ¼ inch and leaving about ½ inch above the top of the stick.
- Glue the felt together along the overlapping edge to make a tube that fits the stick tightly
To make the ears
- Push down on the center of the back side of the felt that rises above the top of the stick
- Apply a drop of glue
- Push the center of the front edge of the felt into the glue
- The ears will stick up on the sides of the head
To make the horse’s nose and mouth
- Remove the felt head from the stick
- Pinch the end together
- Starting about ½ inch from the bottom, round the corners of the felt tube with the scissors
To make the nostrils
- Cut small circles from the black felt
- Glue them to the bottom of the horse’s nose
- Glue the googly eyes on the horse’s face
To make the mane
- Cut a strip of felt as long as the face by 1 inch wide for a large candy stick; about ¾ inch wide for a small candy stick
- Fold the felt in half lengthwise
- Glue the edges of the felt together, leaving the top unglued
- Snip fringe along the length of the felt
- Cut a small curve in the bottom of one end of the length of felt so it will fit over the top of the horse’s head
- Glue the rest of the length of felt down the back of the horse’s head
To add the reins
- Cut a length of narrow ribbon or leather lacing about 6 inches long
- Glue the center of the ribbon or lacing to the horse’s face above the nostrils at the level of the trimmed mouth around to the mane
- Tie the ends of the ribbon or lacing together