Get Your Breyer Horses Ready for Halloween

Obviously, altering your most prized and precious Breyer horses may not be something you wish to do—especially if they are rare and in good condition. And you certainly wouldn’t want to get anything on any new Breyer horse models that you have recently acquired.

However, if you’ve got some cheap ones—or multiples—around, you might want to decorate them just in time for Halloween (and other holidays!).

You could paint them festive orange and black colors, decorate them with fake blood or other gooey creations, and pose them in horrific scenarios. Take a rider or small doll, for example, and dress it in black—and take off its head! You have an instant homage to Sleepy Hollow.

Go for a scarier version of My Little Ponies by adding a scary emblem on your horse’s flanks. Instead of a heart, rainbow or whatever, try a skull, a bat, or a pumpkin.

Paint bones on one of your black horses to make it look like a skeleton, or add a green face and a bit of black fabric for a traditional witch costume.

Of course, you can also decorate them without altering them a bit. Try one of these ideas…

Create a graveyard and position a few of your horses around it.

Re-enact your favorite scary movies or scenes with your horses. Try using them to model scenes from Ghost Rider or Lord of the Rings. If you have action figures to use with these, all the better!

Make a scary farm tableau with your horses and other animals, complete with a spooky barn and perhaps even dead bodies (featuring  a toddler’s barn toy or any Breyer barn accessories you might have, action figures, etc.). Have your horses trample over your least favorite doll.

Use your Breyer accessories. Make saddles spooky, for example, by painting them colors or adding a few Halloween toy bugs or spiders.

Make tiny costumes for your horses that will come off easily, such as draping a small white cloth over one, drawing eyes on it as a “ghost.” This could be easy enough to do with lots of other costumes as well, such as a witch’s hat and cape, a round pumpkin (orange cloth wrapped around the horse, stuffed with newspaper, and a little orange and green hat to match), or a bat costume (black fabric with simple bat wings cut out and attached).

Alternatively, if you’d simply like to give your Breyer horses a new look, use this guide to paint them any way you wish.