Sorry for the slight delay this morning, they are putting new cable underground in our neighborhood and our Internet has been out for hours at a time all week. Grrr!! Anyhow, today’s camp activity is to add some personal touches to your horse’s space! Use what you have on hand and get creative. I will show you what Natalie and I did as a little inspiration for you.
The first thing we made is a name banner for our horse. Mocha is actually Sunny from The Queen’s Treasures. She is super soft, has a stylable mane and tail, and has the sweetest face.
To make the banner for Mocha, I simply punched out enough scalloped circles from scrapbook paper to spell her name. I glued them on a piece of brown ribbon. On the computer I made purple circles with white letters and cut them out. Instead of just gluing them, I used thick double sided scrapbooking foam squares to give the banner a little pop.
I also added a shelving unit. This was the best little find! I bought the kids some packets of trail mix from Berkley & Jensen (warehouse store BJs). When the snacks were gone I took one look at the box and thought it would make a perfect set of shelves since the box already had dividers in it.
To make the shelving a little more fun I covered the sides with the coordinating scrapbook paper and trimmed it with the same brown ribbon. At Joann, I found these cute little clothespins that have mini chalkboards on them. I simply hot glued the clothespins to the side of the shelf and now we can hang notes or horse accessories.
Mocha did such a great job at the horse show that she earned her rose garland.
To make the rose garland I cut a piece of ribbon long enough to go around the horse’s neck, then used hot glue to attache pre-made rosettes that I picked up at the craft store.
Now Mocha is ready for an afternoon snack – a nice green apple from Saige.
Natalie made hay for the stable by cutting up yellow fun foam into strips then hot gluing it into bales. Karen also has a simple method of making hay bales that you can see here.
If your horse doesn’t have a stable yet, follow Karen’s instructions for making a horse stable from a cardboard box or get fancy and make a ranch using instructions from Morgane.
What else do you think our horse stable needs? I hope you share photos of your stables – we can’t wait to see them.
easy and fun ideas, very creative. I love the shelves and the mini clothpins with chalkboards. fun, fun, fun!
cool Ill have to try this
🙂
This is very cute!
Very clever!
Your stable is too cute!
I love your stable! And once again- such wonderful ideas! 🙂
You guys are amazing 🙂
~Jaclynn~
Cute
Awesome!! My package from the photo contest arrived!! Thank you so much Char!! I posted about it here: hannasdollblog.blogspot.com 🙂
I love these!!! I love the rose garland!!! I have Felicity and a Battat horse and I would make the barn but I have no room to put it!!! : [
Nice!:)
Cool! Quick question what doll is that in the background of the last photo?
GEM – that is Annie – she is a South African Girl doll.
Thanks she is so cute!
These ideas are sooo cute!!! Thanks! 🙂
When did they sell that American Girl horse?
I have been following along with the Doll Diaries Camp and doing some of the crafts. I’m writing to give you and your readers a headsup for school supplies at Dollar Tree. I was there yesterday and their back to school supplies are out. I saw a number of things that work for AG dolls. They have packs of 3 1/2 inch pens, small scissors and cute erasers. But the best item I found was the lunch bags shaped like backpacks just the right size and in pretty colors.They just need some straps. They also have some small plastic containers that fit in the lunch bags/backpacks to hold the girl’s lunch. I just need to cut down some cute pencils. I have already printed off some school book covers to make books. And they have pretty lined page notebooks and folders. I think they are all set.
Phyllisa
Cute crafts! Love the rose garland! 😀
Kalli – that is not an AG horse. The horse is from The Queen’s Treasures.
I love all of the horse craft this week, it is such a great theme!
We have already started making some of the projects, like the horse feed and the horse “ornaments”!
Next we will work on the jumping accessories!
thanks for all the great inspirations, for moms and little/big girls
Char – your horse space is awesome, and Mocha is so cute! : )
These are really cute and creative ideas, Char. You and Natalie have done an amazing job with your horse’s stable!
Phyllisa, thank you for sharing the information about your doll-sized finds at Dollar Tree!
Ahh… I loved this week. I’m sad it’s over.
PS: Todays date is 7/27/2013!