
Top Tip
If you find white boxes you can skip the paper mâché step entirely and just paint it with a layer of white paint mixed with PVA glue.
How to Make



- First you need to choose a box for the body that you can fit in to, that isn’t too big or heavy to hold up.
- Print the template and cut it out of a flat sheet of cardboard (thick cardboard can be hard to cut with scissors for little hands ask your adult to help you)
- Make a slit big enough for the head in the front of your box towards the top.
- Post the head through folding and gluing it on the inside to secure it.
- Cut the flaps off the box and glue a cardboard tube in the bottom 4 corners to stop the box from collapsing.
- Now mix PVA and water together in a bowl until it’s the consistency of runny honey. Add a generous squirt or two of white paint to this mix.
- Rip up the printer paper into strips and either use a paintbrush to stick these to your box or dip them into the mixture and stick them on.
- Do this until your box and the head is covered and leave to dry overnight.
- Once dry coat with PVA glue and sprinkle glitter over the whole model and leave to dry again. Glitter the horn silver.
- With your wool pack cut lengths of each colour wool long enough to drape over your horse head both sides.
- Use the glue gun to fix this to the top of the head then flip one side over to the other and braid how you wish.
- For the tail cut longer lengths of wool and stick these into a cut down cardboard tube
- Once completely dry wrap the tube in silver ribbon and stick to the bottom of your unicorn.
- Draw a face and add eyes.
- Using boarder roll cut off the wavy edge and fix to the box over your shoulders to make the straps.
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