Fun to make in childcare! A special feature of horse craft ideas
Here’s an introduction to popular horse crafts for preschools and kindergartens.
Horses are familiar, friendly animals for children, often appearing in picture books and stories.
Using everyday materials like paper cups, paper plates, and milk cartons, these horse crafts spark children’s creativity and let them enjoy steps like coloring and gluing.
After they’re finished, kids can play pretend together with their horses or use them as decorations, expanding the fun beyond the craft itself.
We’ve gathered age-appropriate ideas, so feel free to incorporate them into your class activities.
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Fun to make in childcare! A special feature of horse craft ideas (21–30)
Make a clear horse out of a plastic bottle!
Why not try a craft project using recycled materials? In this idea, you’ll make a horse out of plastic bottles.
Cut the bottles with scissors and glue the pieces together while imagining the overall shape of the horse.
Instead of fixing the shape from the start, you’ll turn the cut parts into a horse by using them creatively—an idea that really stimulates creativity.
Use clear plastic bottles to create a mysterious, beautiful transparent horse.
Since you’ll be assembling as you glue, a hot glue gun will come in handy.
Mini ranch diorama
Let’s make a miniature horse diorama.
First, cut the Styrofoam to fit the display box.
Then apply plaster, paint it, lay down the grass, and place trees, stones, and flowers.
Finally, set the horse figurine wherever you like, and it’s complete! This idea suggests a landscape reminiscent of a pasture, but feel free to create any scene you prefer.
A tool called a grass applicator is used to make the grass stand upright, and green powder is sprinkled on to add variation to the grass.
The attention to detail is so fine that it looks like a real landscape!
Challenge yourself to making stilts
Nowadays you can buy stilts made from all kinds of materials, but this is an idea for making traditional stilts using real bamboo! First, prepare two bamboo poles for the uprights, choosing ones that are as similar in thickness as possible.
Then prepare one bamboo piece for the footrests, and make sure it is thicker than the uprights.
After cutting the two upright poles to the same length, cut the footrest bamboo into two pieces, each a little longer than one bamboo node.
Split each of those pieces in half to make four, then pair them up and tie one end of each pair together with string.
Open the untied ends, sandwich an upright between them, and tie securely from multiple directions to finish.
Be careful: if the knots are loose, the footrests may drop when you step on them.
Song for drawing the Horse
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.
Let’s make it by sticking! Uma-Daruma
Let me introduce a craft idea for a horse daruma with an adorable pose of a horse looking up at you.
First, cut four strip-shaped pieces from red construction paper.
Arrange them in a radial pattern, glue them together at the center, then bring all the ends together and glue to form a sphere.
Attach a horse face made from another piece of construction paper to the top of the sphere, place the sphere on a square base, and glue it down to finish.
I’m presenting it as a horse daruma this time, but you can adapt the idea to match each year’s zodiac animal.
You could also add a piece on the base with the characters for “Welcoming the New Year.”
Draw with colored pencils! Cute horse
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.
I tried making a horse out of cardboard!
Many of you probably have cardboard boxes at home from deliveries and the like.
This time, let’s make a horse with a three-dimensional, beautiful form! What you’ll need: cardboard, a utility knife, a cutting mat, a pen, a ruler, scissors, glue, a hot glue gun, and an awl, among other items.
First, sketch the parts on the cardboard with a pen.
Next, cut out the parts with the utility knife, then refine the shapes with scissors.
After that, attach the cut pieces according to the thickness of the cardboard.
Finally, assemble the parts—adjusting the orientation as you glue them—and you’re done.
It’s a dynamic and beautiful piece, isn’t it?