Make Your Own Hobby Horse (Easy Kids’ Craft Using a Kitchen Roll Tube!)

Looking for a fun, creative activity your child will LOVE this weekend?

This week’s Crafty Sundays project is a classic with a Creative Crafters twist — a DIY Hobby Horse! 🐎✨

It’s brilliant for:

🎨 Creativity

✂️ Fine motor skills

🧠 Imagination & storytelling

🏃 Gross motor play (once it’s finished — riding time!)

And best of all… it’s made using simple household items.

What You’ll Need

• A kitchen roll tube (or 2 toilet rolls taped together)

• Our FREE printable horse head (download below)

• Thick paper or card

• Scissors

• Glue

• Colouring pens, pencils or paint

• Wool, ribbon, string or paper strips (for the mane)

• Stickers or decorations (optional)

  
  

  Download the Horse Head Printable

  
  

Instead of drawing the horse head, you can download and print our ready-made template — perfect for saving time and keeping it child-friendly.

Horse Head Cut out.pdf

Download PDF • 137KB

How To Make Your Hobby Horse

1️⃣ Decorate the Tube

Let your child colour or paint their kitchen roll tube — stripes, patterns, rainbows, glitter… anything goes!

2️⃣ Cut & Colour the Horse Head

• Print the horse head

• Glue it onto card

• Cut it out

• Decorate both sides with faces, spots, stars or silly expressions

  
  

3️⃣ Add Ears & Eyes

Cut ears from paper or card and glue them on — or let children design their own fun features.

4️⃣ Create the Mane

Stick wool, ribbon, paper strips or string along the back of the head to make a flowy mane.

5️⃣ Attach the Head to the Tube

Cut small slits in the tube, slide the horse head in, and secure with tape

or glue.

6️⃣ Ride Your Horse! 🏇

Time for imaginative play — galloping, racing, storytelling and showing off their creation!

🧠 Why We Love This Craft (The Learning Bit!)

This activity helps children build:

Fine motor skills (cutting, gluing, colouring)

Creativity & imagination

Confidence & independence

Storytelling & pretend play

Pride in something they’ve made themselves

We love crafts that feel like play, but quietly support learning and development too.

Show us your creations below!

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