POTATOES AND SQUASH
Potato Horse (Three potatoes, slender sticks or tooth-picks, raveled string or coarse black thread)
Take large potato for body of horse, a smaller one for the neck, and another for the head. Join them with sticks broken to convenient length. Four other sticks make the legs, two little ones the ears and the string or thread the flowing tail. The tail can be attached to a tack or pin and inserted.
Squash or Sweet Potato Animals (Crooked-neck squash or sweet potato for each animal, slender sticks)
Insert sticks for legs into crooked-neck squashes and convert into animals of various kinds, the kind depending upon the size of the neck and general shape. Sweet potatoes by their queer shapes will often suggest animals: pigs, dogs, etc., or ducks, swans, ostriches, and birds. Use tacks or shoe buttons for eyes. Dolls can be made also.