Craft Grooming Supplies for Large Toy Horses

      Horse brush types from soft to hard require only a few materials like: scrap cardboard, a selection of wire types, white school glue, hot glue gun, yarn and twine, masking tape and acrylic paints. Needle-nose pliers and wire cutters will also come in handy when shaping these. I measured these grooming supply to fit the hands of our 18 inch dolls. 

The shedding blade is cut from the serrated edge of a recycled kitchen foil box, not the
metal tooth but the cardboard teeth. The metal tooth could actually scrap the plastic of
 the horse so don't use that side of the box. Tape on and handle and secure it with more
 tapes wound about the end, then  paint the handle a bright color and the pretend
blade a silver color.

A naturally stiff bristle brush for removing hardened, caked on mud can be shaped using
 small egg carton parts, masking tape and painted to look realistic with acrylic paints.
These kinds of brushes  are also excellent for giving a toy horse a nice massage after a
 good workout/run. The handles in  all of these brushes were shaped using the wire
covered paper used to package lettuce in food markets. (as seen in left photo above)

The stiff bristle brush made using masking tape. The bristles are tape cut with a ruffled
 edge and wrapped around and around themselves. Ten of these small bristles are
 glued side by side beneath the crafted handle. (above see painted finish)

Left, two different large foam body sponges cut from
upholstery and kitchen sponge. Right, tail paddle brush
was once a brush for a doll's hair.

 Both a soft horsehair brush for the final finishing of your toy horses coat
 and a rubber face curry with flexible bristles are made from an altered
 real toothbrush and a gum scrapper.

See toothbrush and gum scrapper types, how these were cut, how handles were shaped
 using paper covered wire and masking tape. When shaping the handles make sure to
 measure the arch of the handle against the hand of the doll you wish to hold it.

This soft horse brush is made using wire and a large pom-pom. The wire is sewn into the
 pom pom with needle and matching navy thread. Then yarn is blanket stitched on top
of the wire for added thickness about the doll's hand.