WHAT YOU NEED
• Some cardboard (an old cereal box will do)
• Scissors
• Plain white paper
• Pens, textas or paint and brushes to colour-in your horses
• Wooden pegs (we found some smaller ones in a craft shop)
• Wool for the mane and tail, or you can make a cardboard tail and draw in a mane.
• Hole punch
• Glue
• Gooley eyes (available from craft shops) or ytou can just draw the eyes on.

WHAT TO DO
Print this page out or download the templates here.
Trace the outline (or cut it out) and stick on a piece of cardboard. Cut carefully around the horse...this will be your template and you can make as many peg ponies as you like!

Place template on card and trace around, then cut out. Paint or colour-in your horse and do the same to his peg legs. Don't forget to draw his hooves in with black texta. Add any extra markings like socks and blazes. Stick on the eyes and attach the legs. Draw a mouth on your horse as well.

MANES & TAILS
Using the hole punch, make a hole on the horse's rump and thread some pieces of wool through. When you have the right thickness, tie a piece of wool around the top of the tail to hold in place. For the mane, punch holes in the horse neck and do the same thing. Trim the mane and tail afterwards, cutting them just a bit shaggy and uneven to resemble a real mane and tail.

For the forelock, tie some strips of wool together and glue it behind the horse's head.

OTHER IDEAS.....
• Stick some wool around the fetlocks and make a Clydesdale or Friesian!

• For smaller peg ponies, use embroidery thread or wool for finer manes ands tails.

• Different textured wool makes good manes and tails...we used bobbly wool.

• Add some wings and make a PEG-asus!



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