[Childcare] Handmade New Year’s cards with a horse motif: a collection of ideas to enjoy with kids

A horse you can draw in 5 steps

The 5-step way to draw a horse is way too funny lol

A New Year’s card that lets kids’ individuality shine is sure to warm the recipient’s heart! This is an idea we highly recommend for preschool classes.

Many children may not know where to start when they begin drawing.

The key here is that the drawing order is predetermined, making it easy to get started.

Plus, it’s a wonderful idea that still brings out each child’s unique personality.

In step 5, try adding your own touches—like coloring and lettering.

Draw with colored pencils! Cute horse

[Colored Pencil Drawing] How to Draw a Horse | Year of the Horse | New Year Illustration | New Year’s Card Illustration

It’s a fun idea to draw and color while capturing a horse’s characteristics.

For the infant class, let caregivers or teachers make a rough sketch, and then try coloring it with paints, colored pencils, or crayons.

Choosing colors freely and tracing lines can be very stimulating.

For the preschool class, try drawing while looking at picture books or encyclopedias, or draw the horse you imagine and aim to finish it by coloring with colored pencils! In the video, they intentionally draw on textured paper to create a certain atmosphere—that’s a nice touch too.

Horse made with torn-paper collage

[Origami Play] Horse: Uma / A Perfect Educational Activity for Kids Using Origami [Collage]

It’s fun to see small torn pieces come together into a big picture! This is one of the projects we hope children will enjoy making together with teachers or guardians, appropriate to their age.

You’ll need paper or postcards, origami paper in various colors, glue or a tape runner, and a pen for sketching.

For preschool classes, it’s also a good idea to adapt the activity as practice in cutting pieces to a suitable size with scissors.

If the pieces are made too small, the pasting step can become difficult, so proceed with care as you work toward the finished piece!

Pote Saburō’s horse-drawing song

http://www.nicovideo.jp

It’s a very unique drawing song where you end up completing a horse while making rice cakes.

The first thing you draw is the shape of a grilled, puffed-up mochi.

That becomes the horse’s face and nose.

From there, decorate with black beans for the eyes and use black sesame seeds to represent the nostrils.

Pour sauce to draw the mane, and finally, stick in two pieces of chikuwa for the ears to complete the horse.

The lyrics are unforgettable once you hear them, so children might memorize them after just one listen.

Enjoy the song and try drawing a cute horse illustration!

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Cute horse! How to draw a unicorn

How to draw a simple unicorn [side profile] #illustration #drawing #unicorn #drawing #easyillustration

If you want to make a cute Year of the Horse New Year’s card, how about drawing a unicorn? The illustration introduced here shows a unicorn’s profile from the neck up.

Start by drawing the outline of the face, then the front of the neck; draw the ear, then draw the back of the neck and connect it to the front.

After drawing the nose and mane, add a splendid horn so it’s clearly a unicorn.

For the eye, include long eyelashes to make it look cute.

Although horses are typically brown, since this is a unicorn, try coloring it mainly with purple and pink.

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Zebra coloring page

[Crying-Stopping Coloring Book for Babies] Zebra / Fast-Forward Coloring Video Series That Makes Kids Focus and Stop Crying [Oekaking]

If drawing from scratch is difficult, how about trying coloring pages? There are many coloring illustrations available online for free, so using those makes preparation easy.

Since small illustrations can be hard for children to color, use large ones for the coloring itself, then reduce the finished piece with a color copier and paste it onto the New Year’s card.

I think decorating the blank spaces with stickers would also look lovely.

A horse illustration is fine, but I also recommend using a zebra—something more familiar to children from places like the zoo.

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Song for drawing the Horse

Drawing Song: The Twelve Zodiac Animals (7) - Horse (午) Edition

Perfect for when you want to draw a horse but don’t know how! Here’s an idea for drawing the zodiac Horse using a drawing song.

First, use ovals to represent the head and body, then imagine raindrops as you draw the neck and legs.

Use the “horns” part of the lyrics for the ears, and the “grass” part for the mane and hooves.

Finally, add the eyes, nose, and tail, and you’re done! By drawing along with the song, kids can easily draw a horse.

Start with a pencil sketch so you can erase, then trace over it with a pen to finish.

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