Making a Horse Carousel is a fun craft project that can be done at home. So let us begin and make this homestay fun and productive.
You can follow these simple steps to make your DIY Horse Carousel:
STEP 1:
Take two paper plates.
STEP 2:
In one of the plates, cut along the dotted line as shown below.
STEP 3:
The circle that looks like this will be the base of our carousel.
STEP 4:
Take a toilet paper roll.
STEP 5:
Place the roll on the circular cutout like this:
STEP 6:
Cut out straw pieces of length 5 cm each.
STEP 7:
Punch 4 holes on the paper plate as shown below:
STEP 8:
Cut 4 strings/thread of length 8.5 cm.
STEP 9:
Put the thread in a hole in the plate:
STEP 10:
Put the remaining three threads in the remaining three holes as shown below:
STEP 11:
Put the cut straw pieces in the threads as shown here:
STEP 12:
Secure the straw pieces on the thread by tying knots as show here:
Here’s how to tie a knot:
STEP 13:
First, cut out 4 pairs of horses so that each pair is a different color.
Now, let’s work on the horses for the carousel. You can draw and cut out 8 horses from the color papers.
STEP 14:
Paste a horse on a straw as shown below:
STEP 15:
Do the same for the other three horses.
STEP 16:
Now, on the other side of the straw, paste another horse of the same color so that the two horses overlap completely.
STEP 17:
Do the same for the other three horses.
STEP 18:
Can you make the final setup that looks like this?