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)
Pote Saburō’s horse-drawing song
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!
The little horse from the drawing song
This is a horse drawing song that even toddlers will find easy to try, using circles, squares, diamonds, straight lines, and wavy lines.
Use squares for the body and legs, and circles to represent the head and ears.
Draw a long neck with a straight line and the mane with a wavy line.
Surprisingly, the diamond shape is used for the tail! Finally, add the eyes and nostrils as black dots to complete it.
It’s a simple horse that can also be enjoyed as a coloring page, so feel free to use it in your New Year’s card design.
By changing the angle of the legs, you can depict a standing horse, a running horse, and many other poses!
Cute horse! How to draw a unicorn
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.
Horses to enjoy coloring with
How about a New Year’s card idea that’s finished just by coloring? Drawing a horse’s entire body is difficult even for adults.
It’s not an animal we see every day, and capturing the head, torso, and legs in good balance all at once is quite a challenge.
But if you use a coloring-page illustration that’s already complete, all you need to do is add your favorite colors! Coloring is a classic activity for kids, so it should be fun to work on.
Once you’ve enjoyed coloring, make a smaller print using a color copier, and paste it onto your New Year’s card.
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.
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!