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There aren’t many things in life I enjoy more than watching a child play happily. With three of my own, I get to do this every day, except of course when they are fighting and tearing the house apart…
One toy that every kid I’ve ever met loves playing with is a rocking horse. It’s easy to see why; they get to ride and rock on it, it’s brightly painted, and it’s an animal they can pretend play with, great for imaginative play.
I enjoy making them so much I decided to film a build video of one. I can build one of these within 2-3 days now, but this actual one took quite a while as it was made when I had only 30 minutes a week free to woodwork. You can watch the changing state of the workshop in the background because of this! This one went to a good friend of mine who just had her first child. I wanted to give something that would last a long time as opposed to a bunch of flowers and some baby clothes like I normally would. Her bubby is obviously too young for it at the moment, but they’ll be able to play with it in different ways as they grow.
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I also made one a while back for a little girl named Isabelle who I found out about through facebook. She has severe autism which makes it extremely hard for her to communicate. You can follow her progress on her facebook page here. Her parents were setting up a Sensory Room in their house so I offered to make a rocking horse for her to play with in there. She seems to be enjoying it too!
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The only child that isn’t happy with me making rocking horses is my own son! He gets to rock on them for an hour or two when they are finished, then I send them off elsewhere. Seeing as he is on the autism spectrum himself, (not severely, he just has a little bit of difficulty communicating) I should probably get off my butt and make him his own.
Hope you enjoy the video. I actually gave up on it after spending hours editing as I thought I’d lost half the footage! It turned out to be a corrupt drive. I managed to save most of the footage and have thrown that drive in the bin.
I want to follow up this video with another pretty quickly. I’m hoping to film how to build and use my single blade box joint jig this weekend. It’s so useful already for me, I want to see if anybody else can see a way to improve or extend its features.
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