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 collection of horse craft ideas (31–40)
Easy one-sheet horse origami
For someone who’s far away, a child’s growth can feel incredibly fast, right? Here’s an idea for a New Year’s card: attach a horse made from origami.
Origami is said to nurture not only fine motor skills but also thinking skills and the ability to plan ahead.
The recipient will likely be delighted to see that the child can now create such a lovely piece with origami.
You only need one sheet of origami paper, and adding eyes with a pen or round stickers gives it a cute finish.
Recommended for preschoolers in the middle to older age range.
Zebra coloring page
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.
Cute face of Deep Impact
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Even when making a horse out of origami, careful attention to decorative details can transform it into many different kinds of horses.
This time, let’s make the famed racehorse Deep Impact.
Prepare brown-toned origami paper, pens, stickers, and so on.
By using pens and stickers to depict the mane color and the tack and gear that suit the horse’s personality and traits, you can show how to tell horses apart through decoration, even with the same folding method.
For this project, try capturing Deep Impact’s distinctive features, making good use of thin, elongated stickers.
Origami Horse You Can Make from a Single Sheet
You can give it a try if you have origami at home or at school! This is a full-body horse made from a single sheet of origami paper.
All you need is one sheet.
Brown tones are recommended, but you can also use whatever colors children imagine, or even patterned design paper to make a horse with markings.
Some steps require a bit of force where layers overlap, and there are a few slightly tricky points, but it’s best to pause the video and work at your own pace.
Once you finish one horse, you’ll want to make a second and third—it’s a wonderfully charming idea.
Easy and cute! Unicorn face
It’s fun to get particular about colors while you create! How about trying a project like that? After folding an origami unicorn face, decorate its expression with pens and stickers.
It’s great to make together with friends or family, but also perfect for focusing and working on your own.
It’s exciting to add more friends and dive into your ideal world or a fantasy world to play.
The instructions are easy to understand and simple, so it’s highly recommended! Be sure to suggest it to children who love cute things.
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Cute Pony Origami
A colorful horse made with double-sided origami paper has a different vibe and looks really cute, doesn’t it? All you need to prepare is double-sided origami paper and a pen.
It seems that larger origami paper works better than the standard 15 cm square.
The folding steps are simple and easy to follow.
If you make crisp, firm creases as you go, you can keep it neat all the way to the end, so give it a try.
After it’s finished, it’s fun to draw the horse’s expression, too.
It might also be interesting to stick them on a wall or window to make it look like they’re running across the sky.
Cute carriage frame
Here’s a carriage idea perfect for children who love cute designs.
You’ve probably seen something like it in fairy tales or princess worlds.
Let’s make a dream carriage out of origami.
All you need are origami paper in your favorite colors, glue, scissors, and so on.
Since the horse and the cabin are made separately, it’s a good idea to be particular about the colors or use patterned/design origami paper.
For the horse, if you want to show it running, fold the legs in a spread position to create a lively, dynamic look.