How to Make Items for a Breyer Model Horse

Making items for your Breyer horse can save you lots of money and is a lot more interesting than buying what everyone else has for their horse.

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Home Sweet Home

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    Make a home for the Breyer horse. Make a barn or other suitable place for your horse to stay. A barn can be made from a large cardboard box:
    • Use the opening part of the box to turn into the stable doors. Cut the flaps in half, leaving them attached to the box still. To draw the flaps together when the horse is inside, push in a thumbtack in the middle opening edge of each door. Wind thread around one tack of a top door, and one of another door. Glue in place to keep on these two doors permanently. When you wish to close the doors, simply wind the unglued end of thread around the other two thumb tacks and the doors will stay shut. (Other methods can also be improvised.)
    • Draw a wood paneling design on the barn doors to make it seem more realistic.
    • Cut out a window on the sides of the barn.
    • Draw grooming gear and tack on the back wall of the barn.
    • Paint the whole box a barn color if wished.
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    Make a stall inside the barn. Build a stall from ice cream sticks or similar craft sticks. Or, use thin unwanted paperback books to build a stall from.
    • If you have a stallion and a mare, keep them in separate stalls.
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    Make fake manure for the horse stall. This is optional but fun. Use modeling clay to make brown colored manure piles.
    • Sprinkle a little sawdust down for added authenticity.
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Feeding the Breyer Horse

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    Make a pasture so your horse can graze. Use a green sheet of fabric and cut it large enough for the horse to "feed" on.
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    Make feeding buckets from egg cartons.
    • Cut one egg carton hole off the egg carton.
    • Poke holes each side of the open end of the egg carton hole.
    • Feed thin gauge wire through each hole to form a semi-circle handle. Wind into place each end.
    • Done.
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    Make a water trough. Use half of a toilet paper roll. Simply cut in half, then color the inside blue. Gently rest in the pasture or inside the barn.
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    Make feeding bowls. Use old lids or tops off food items to make into food containers.
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    Make a hay feeder. Use netting from the craft material basket. Glue to popsicle sticks and fill with dried grass from outside. Hang onto the barn.
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Cleaning the Stall

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    If you made fake manure to put in your stall, here is how to clean it out. Get all of the manure out and the sawdust that got urinated on. Dump it all into a wheelbarrow or cart and take it to the manure pile. You can use s small cardboard box for the "manure pile".
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Keeping a Breyer Horse Warm

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    When it gets cold in the winter, keep your horse warm. Make a blanket as follows:
    • Find a piece of polar fleece, an old blanket or unwanted clothing. Choose a fabric and pattern that pleases you.
    • Cut this piece of fabric into a rectangle shape. It must be large enough to drape right over the horse.
    • Stitch around the entire edge of the fabric piece. This gives it a hem to stop it from fraying.
    • You can use the blanket as it is. But if you want to add the straps that keep a blanket in place on a horse, use lengths of ribbon for this. Attach with simple stitching and tie bows to keep the blanket in place when it's on the horse.
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Making a Saddle

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    Trace a saddle shape on flexible cardboard. You can find shapes for saddles by searching online.
    • Be sure to use measurements that fit the horse's size.
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    Cut out the saddle shape.
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    Make it more realistic by adding fabric. Choose fleece or pleather (artificial leather). Trace the same shape onto the fabric, cut it out and adhere to the outer side of the cardboard.
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    Use a small hole puncher to make two holes on each side of the saddle. Thread ribbon or string through this for a girth.
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    Try it on the horse. Tie in place.
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Community Q&A

  • Question
    How can I make grooming supplies?
    Community Answer
    Community Answer
    Cut off the handle of a toothbrush to make it a brush. Bend a paper clip into a hoof pick. Cut a sponge into smaller pieces for your model. Modeling clay works for curry combs.
  • Question
    How do I make sides on the saddle?
    Community Answer
    Community Answer
    Use modeling clay to create stirrups and hot glue it in place. Add food dye to the clay (or get colored clay) to make it look more realistic.
  • Question
    Do I need to tie the saddle in place?
    Community Answer
    Community Answer
    Yes. If you don't tie the saddle onto the horse, it could easily fall off.
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Warnings

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Things You'll Need

  • A Breyer model horse
  • Pasture
  • Rider (doll or action figure)
  • Craft items and tools


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Updated: April 4, 2021
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