Horses are one of kids’ favorite animals! If your child loves horses, they’re going to want to make this paper plate horse craft!

It’s super simple to make and it combines painting and crafting. We’ve even included a free printable template to make it easier!

This craft is suitable for doing at home or in the classroom with preschoolers, kindergarten and elementary children.

Check out our step by step directions or watch our quick video tutorial to learn how to make this cute horse craft.

And be sure to look at all of our fun farm animal crafts for kids!

Horse Craft For Kids

Supplies

• Paper plates
• Brown paint
• Paintbrush
• White card stock
• Colored card stock
• Glue stick
• Brown marker
• Scissors
• Horse template (download form located at the end of this post)

Directions

Download the horse template, print and cut out the pieces.

Paint your paper plate in a thin coat of brown paint and let dry completely. In our example, we used dark brown paint, but you can try black, light brown, white or cream colored.

As a side note, we painted two paper plates brown instead of one. The second one we used to cut out the horse’s ears from. If you don’t want to paint 2 paper plates, you can choose to use the same colored card stock or construction paper instead.

Additionally, if you don’t want to deal with the mess that comes with painting you can skip it and use brown paper plates instead.

Take the two large eyes and glue them towards the top of the paper plate. Use the brown marker to draw on the nostrils and mouth on the cream muzzle.

Glue this piece just beneath the eyes, in the middle of the paper plate.

Position the horse’s mane at the top of the paper plate and glue or tape it down. We’ve found tape works the best on painted paper plates.

Cut out the horse’s ears from the second paper plate or brown construction paper and tape them to the back of the paper plate.

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Related: Paper Plate Pig Craft

Farm Animal Study Unit Ideas

That’s all there is to it! This horse craft goes along great when learning about farm animals.

In fact, you can make a week-long study of farm animals with our easy activities! It’s a great idea if you’re doing homeschool preschool or to keep the younger kids entertained and learning during summer break.

Here are a few resources to get your planning started!

First, you can check out some of kids’ favorite farm animal books from the library. Choose one, two, or all of them depending on how much your kids like storytime!

After that why not try these farm animal worksheets for kids? Inside this bundle, there’s a matching game, handwriting practice, counting, and more.

Once you’re done with those get hands-on with this farm-themed small world play. It’s easy to grab your kids’ farm animal toys and get started.

Another day, keep the kids entertained with these free printable farm animal coloring pages.

Finish it off with this paper plate horse craft and you’re all set!

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Free Horse Template