Let’s Make a DIY Horse Carousel!
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.
Materials Required:
- Paper Plates
- Scissors
- Toilet paper rolls
- Straw
- String/Thread
- Colorful A4 Paper
What to do next?
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?
