Keep your eyes open…you might just spot a unicorn in the library!

We read Do You Believe in Unicorns? by Bethanie Deeney Murguia (Candlewick Press, 2018). It might look like a horse in red hat, but the book’s narrator isn’t quite convinced. I mean, it could be a horse who thinks its hair is messy, likes the color red, or is trying to keep its head dry. But if you truly believe…then yes, it’s definitely a unicorn!

You’ll need:

• 1 pony head template, printed on 11″ x 17″ paper
• A 11″ x 27″ piece of white poster board for head (plus extra for the horn)
• 2 rectangles of white construction paper for ears (approximately 2″ x 3.5″)
• Construction paper for mane and forelock
• 2 wiggle eyes
• 2 black dot stickers for nose
• A 41.5″ piece of PVC pipe for stick
• A 35″ piece of ribbon for the reins
• Hole punch
• Packing tape
• Stapler, scissors, tape for construction
• Markers for decorating
• Hot glue

Our unicorn is the stick horse we designed for this story time project. With an additional horn, of course. Our horns were 9″ long, and constructed from extra poster board. I stapled two, 3″ tabs of poster board to the base, then folded the tabs outward and hot glued them to either side of the horse’s forehead so the horn stayed centered.

Once we completed our unicorns, we rode forth in the library, including trotting through a magical hoop of flowers (which you might recognize as the slightly deconstructed door from our Hobbit event)! Those talented unicorns even took a stab at a theater performance!

And for the record, I do believe in unicorns.