Rocking Horse Would Be A Special Gift For Any Child

Here’s a rocking horse project that makes it easy to craft a handmade gift for a special child. Any do-it-yourselfer with common tools and a little patience can complete it.

Parents will be happy to know all edges are rounded smooth, eliminating sharp points and corners.

The project calls for one 10-foot piece of 1-by-12 clear pine, dowels, wood screws, glue, sandpaper, stain and paint, along with a small piece of leather or felt for the ears and yarn or rope for the tail. It uses only eight different cuts and 17 pieces in total, all traced from full-size patterns. After sawing, just assemble with screws and glue, then sand, stain and paint.

The facial features also can be traced from patterns and then painted, but do-it-yourselfers who want to be creative can design their own. The finished rocking horse is 32 inches long by 26 inches tall by 12 inches wide.

The Rocking Horse plan, No. 56, is $6.50 and includes complete step-by-step directions, full-size traceable patterns and a shopping list and cutting schedule. The plan has alternate traceable patterns for the head and feet that transform the project into a rocking elephant.

A catalog picturing hundreds of do-it-yourself projects is $3.95. Prices include sales tax, postage and handling (for first-class mail, add $1 per item).

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