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WE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR DONKEY CRAFT ITEMS FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN. IF YOU HAVE A CRAFT, WE WOULD LOVE TO HOST IT HERE, WITH A PHOTO OF THE ITEM AND INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO MAKE THE ITEMS. WE ARE MORE THEN HAPPY TO CREDIT YOU WITH THE IDEA AND WORK. The item can be a donkey product you make, a cute little craft that is a donkey shaped item, or tack ideas. THANKS!

RHYTHM BEADS HORSE NECKLACES

The only thing I do not "buy" when reading about the rhythm beads and the benefits from them is the color stuff (they say that the color relaxes the horses) The horses can not see the colors, since they are wearing them.....so........... Since I like the look and love crafts, this is a little inexpensive and fun thing.

I am going to use parachute cord, but Wal-Mart sells that suede cord that could sure be used for this.

As well as pony beads I bought some smaller bells for the ones I will be making. I might add a few feathers (by either sewing them on or gluing them on with a hot glue gun.

There are many items to use for the breast or main piece. A key chain charm, a cluster of beads, a large bell, the list goes on and on.

For size, I will just measure the horses neck area and go from there.

Start with your breast piece and work up each side matching the items and beads from there. Loop your main piece, or breast piece into the cord so that it stays put while you are working with the other pieces.

My horses have color coded tack (each horse has a color they wear, I don't like for them to share tack). so their rhythm beads will be in "their" colors.

TYING AND DECORATE ROPE HALTERS

There are rope halter instructions on the Internet with pictures and measurements and photos. So I will not need to duplicate that.

Rope halters are wonderful to keep in your pocket but do not ever leave one on a horse. They can be a sever halter and training tool. They are not likely to break if the horse would get it caught in something and might just bring a disaster!

Rope Halters are a great weight loss project and inexpensive to make. Use making a rope halter a fun thing to do rather then eating more snacks! Make them in pretty colors to make your horse stand out. Make them in Holiday colors and give them to your horsey friends for gifts.

Make your rope halter to match your saddle blanket or your own clothing. Make them with bright colors to find them easily.

Be the first one at your barn to sew fake flowers unto your halter for a fresh Spring/Summer look (or poinsettias at Christmas. Add bows, bells, twist in ribbons, you can even add beads to the side cheeks for fun and decor, but do not put the bead on the nose band.

Buy 1" rope to match and make a matching lead rope. Either add a clip to one end and a knot to the other, or put a loop in one end of the matching rope and loop through your halter for a clipless look.

Have fun with your horse crafts and be safe!

FABRIC COVERED/DECORATED EQUINE HALTER

This was an old halter that was washed and then I am covering with a zebra print fabric. (I am still working on the halter and plan to cover all the blue with zebra print).

While this craft is very self explanatory, I should say it is harder then it looks. I sew and do crafts all the time, I thought this was an hour craft and done. I was wrong.

Go out the the barn/trailer/tack room and pick out and old halter in good repair. Wash it with a load of towels in your washing machine on warm or better yet, hot then hang it somewhere clean to air dry for 24 hours.

Cut your chosen fabric into strips about two inches longer then the section you will be working on. The fabric should be approx. 3" wide.

You will wrap the fabric around the webbing in the area you are working on, tuck the edge in so that it will not fray, and start sewing, by hand, in very small stitches. When I say wrap, I do not mean round and round. The halter should be wrapped so that all sides are straight and comfortable for the equine wearing them. Wrap the fabric long ways, not round and round.

As you sew, every few stitches, take the needle through the halter so that when the horse is wearing the halter the fabric does not slide down.

Continue until each section of the halter webbing is covered with the fabric.

For Holiday Fun you could cover the halter with multi fabrics and ribbons. Have fun and be creative.....your horse will love the attention it will get in this "one of a kind" craft you have created.

MAKING HORSE SIZED PATTERNS

Ever want to make a Horse Item, like a saddle pad, but don't know how to make the pattern?

Next time you empty a 50 pound bag of feed, save the bag. Cut the top and bottom off the bag. Now cut it open up the seam of the bag, where it is glued together. Now, throw away the layer that was next to the food. Keep and use the inside layers.

You can now lay a saddle pad, saddle bags, and other tack down on this huge piece of pattern paper and draw around it with a pencil. Do not use a pen or marker, you may ruin the tack you are drawing around.

After you have it drawn out, cut out the pattern and try it on a calm horse. Or even just lay it down on the item it was cut from. If it correct, take a permanent marker and write on the pattern what type of pattern it is...for instance, saddle bag pattern.

When you are finished using the pattern, fold it up and store it with your other crafts. You may just have other ideas pop into your head for the same pattern. Like another color for the item or one to decorate, one for a parade in Holiday colors, ext.

Look for patterns for stuffed donkys in thrift shops; look for ideas in horse/equine catalogs and magazines; give new life to an old toy, take an old stuffed donkey and make it into a puppet; draw a donkey head for a wood or fabric hobby horse/donkey, use and old broom or a wooden dowel for the stick; use your feed bags (the inside liner) to make large pattens for sewing saddle pads or saddle bags or the like; use donkey print fabric to make handy tote bags in just the sizes you need. Make several in different prints for all your shopping and toting needs; buy horse/donkey print fabric when it is on sale for that craft item you do not know you are even making yet; don't throw away the pattern and instructions to the needle point or other crafts so that you can reuse them or share them with a friend; recover tack, halters, headstalls, saddle blankets, bareback pads, and other tack for a fresh new look; buy glass paint and paint donkeys and donkey's heads on old plain cups and saucers; use "alligator clips" and strips of swede leather to make decorative mane clips for your equine; pony beads, bells, and other beads can be used to make equine rhythm necklaces for your donkeyt or other equine (make them in several colors, including holiday colors); find a glue gun and feathers to decorate your cowboy hat for a new look for a new riding season; decorate your saddle bags with feather and or beads or other fun craft items for a fresh and fun look on the trail; add conchos to your bridle, perhaps a couple of pony beads; cover a cinch with fabric that slides of and on over the existing padding, make several covers in different prints including holiday prints, to really stand out from the crowd; make earrings out of those single donkey charms you have, the earrings do not have to be identical; Make a necklace out of that favorite donkey earring you lost the match to; hot glue a larger donkey charm to a pin or broach setting; save that horse hair from that bridle path cut and shellac it into a picture frame to hold your horse's photo, or use it in the scrap book you are making for your equine; learn to make items (ideas and instructions on line) out of longer pieces of horse hair; make toys for your donkey to play with out of empty laundry detergent bottles; take an inexpensive clock apart and add a donkey photo over the face, put it back together and add a battery to make it work; make a donkey print fabric book cover for your paperbacks;
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-- The Bible Donkeys Team