Wooden horse in the garden with your own hands

Cottage has always attracted not only a place where you can relax from the bustle of a big city, but also a spaciousness for creativity and imagination. The dacha decor does not have to buy in the store, you can make it with your own hands from improvised materials. For example, a wooden horse.

DIY wooden horse

For the manufacture of woods made of wood, you will need:

1. Log.
2. Boards.
3. SPILS.
4. Broaches.
5. Self -tapping screws.
6. Nails.
7. Ropes.
8. Glue.

The course of work:

1. For two saws, the thickness of which is 3 cm, to fill the planks 15 cm in width and 50 cm in length, the thickness does not matter. You should form a rounded box that will serve as a horse's body.
2. To make a toy leg, you need to choose a strong material so that the figure is stable. Brusy, half a meter long, are suitable as material. They are attached to the body with self -tapping screws or nails on the saws in front and behind. Nails and screws should be at least two on each leg, then the horse will not stagger.
3. The horse’s tail is best made of plywood, for this you first need to draw a layout on the material, and then cut it. Using a bar and screws, attach it in the back saw.
4. A board or a beam 40 cm long, on which the head will be attached, is suitable for the neck. It must first be drawn on a faner, and then cut it out. You can use a thin board for these purposes.
5. From the cuts to make eyes and ears and attach them to the muzzle. You can use thin branches as a mane. Next, you need to attach the head to the neck, and the horse is ready.

Painting a wooden horse

If your horse in such an unprocessed form is completely poured into the design of the garden, then you can leave it, only open it with paint so that the boards do not rot. And you can give a certain color the horse and for this you will need: varnish, paint and stain, or replace it all with colored wood varnish. Decorate the animal's muzzle, mane, you can paint the horse in the color of the zebra or multi -colored stripes. Such a toy can be delivered near the playground and at the resting. The horse’s body is a box, so you can pour black soil and plant flowers into it, then the horse will turn their simple decor into a flowerbed.

In the necessary materials, glue and rope were mentioned, with glue, you need to fasten thin and thick parts, and the rope is an additional mount, it also serves as a decor.

A horse from the branches

This is a way how to make a wooden horse with your own hands is very interesting. It will not require expensive materials, all of them are usually on any summer cottage. The basis of the creation of the figure is the use of branches and roots of trees.

The course of work:

1. Before starting work on construction, choose a place in the garden. Where the figure will be placed. Because it will be necessary to do it in place, it cannot be transferred.
2. Work begins to create a horse from branches from the frame. The rest of the details will be attached to it. It is necessary to select large branches and dig them into the ground for reliability. Consider the option that these branches from the frame will serve as legs for the horse.
3. After the frame is installed, begin to braid it with branches, in the same way, as the usual wicker fence is made. First, vertical branches braid the frame, and then their horizontal branches. Do not rush, the branches must be reliably attached to each other so that the design does not fall apart under the influence of wind and other natural phenomena.
4. Make a frame for your neck and also bind it.
5. It is better to make a head separately, it will be more convenient, and then install the ready -made on the neck.
6. Complete the figure with a mane and we can assume that the horse is ready. If desired, it can also be painted or opened with varnish, so the branches will serve longer.

To make such a horse to the power of people patient, because the first time the branches may not be torn with each other as it should and crawl out of the form of the structure. But you can always start with small figures, and then move on to large ones. In addition, you can see examples of wooden horses in the photo.

A horse with a cart

For the manufacture of a horse with a cart, you need thick and thin branches of birches, screws, traffic jams, a rubber winding.

1. A thick birch branch is suitable for the horse’s body. From it you need to cut the body 50 cm long.
2. For the legs, take less branches. In order for the figure to stand firmly and does not stagger, you need to drive your legs into the ground. In this case, all work must be carried out at the place where the horse will stand, provide it in advance.
3. In the churban, which will serve the muzzle, you need to cut out a notch for the mouth.
4. Combine the head with the body with the neck, all wooden details are attached with self -tapping screws.
5. The eyes for the horse can also be cut out of wood, or you can use ordinary bottles. They can simply glue them to the muzzle with glue for wood.
6. For a mane and tail you need to take thin branches and weave them into a broom, attach them with nails to the body.
7. For reins and saddle, you need to take a rubber winding and attach them to places with glue or nails.                                                                                                                         
8. Next came the turn of the cart, it can be built in different ways. You can take four wheels and connect them with birch sticks using screws, so you get the simplest cart. You can take wooden boards and knock down a wooden box from it, like a real cart and attach four wheels. You can pour lands into the cart and put flowers in it. Vegetables growing from it look interesting, for example, pumpkin. And you can put a toy old man in a cart, then the composition will be completely completed.

A horse from plywood

This is the most just option to create a craft that you can imagine. You can attract a child to the manufacture of such a horse. You need a flat plywood sheet and make a drawing of a future wooden horse on it. Next, you need to cut out the drawing with an electrician. And attach the figure to the bars dug into the ground or attach wire to standing trees. The figure of the horse is ready, and it remains only to paint it with paints or make burning.

So that the decor for the garden in the form of a wooden horse does not look lonely, you can supplement the composition with some accessories. You can attach a wagon or carriage to the horse. You can put a bucket with water or with flowers, or a trough with hay near the animal. The horse looks the most advantageous with other wooden figures, so if you have time and desire, you can make it a good company.