Pipe Cleaner Pony

All you need to make a cool herd of horses are a pack of pipe cleaners! You'll need at least 4 pipe cleaners per horse. 

1. Place one pipe cleaner on a tabletop. This will form the head, neck, and body.

2. Make an x with 2 of the other pipe cleaners and put them on top of the first. Don't put the cross of the x in the middle-- keep it more to one end, about a third of the way up the pipe cleaners length. They will soon be your horse's legs.

3. Pinch the place where all the pipe cleaners meet to hold them together. bend all four legs down. 

4. Bring each leg up again so that it goes under the body and up the other side. 

5. Then bend each leg again so that it wraps back across the top and down over the other side. This will affix the legs firmly to the body. Figure out how long you want the legs to be and and cut them. 

6. The longer end of the "body" pipe cleaner becomes the head and neck. Form a head be making a loop at he top and wrapping the tip around the top of the neck.

7. See the short pipe-cleaner bit that's sticking out the tail end? Wrap it around the body to fatten it. Then take a forth pipe-cleaner and wrap it around the head, neck and body to flesh it out. Use as many more pipe-cleaners as needed to add more bulk to the horse.

A racehorse

A jumper

8. Now you can glue on details such as google eyes, yarn for the mane and tail and felt ears. This horse can be posed any way you want. Try adding a saddle, bridle, and a little rider!

this is a trotter