Oh, shoot! I'm new to posting to this board and I posted my kids' Christmas present in the toy category before I was pointed to this contest - can it be entered?

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=281278.msg3185577#msg3185577

This is the first tutorial I've ever done. It's for sock stick horse - really easy, really fast, really cute and *really* inexpensive. It would make a fun Christmas present. My four 1/2 year old plays with hers all the time, and my 2 year old loves hers.

I bought a pack of 10 pairs of cotton socks for $6, a sheet of 4 buttons for 50 cents, two $1 dowels and used 1/2 a bag of $3 batting for two horses. I used fabric and ribbon scraps I had. So each horse cost me $3.10. You could do it even cheaper if you used all items that you had on hand already.

http://unprocessedfamily.blogspot.com/2008/12/sock-stick-horse-tutorial-giveaway.html