Paper Plate Horse Craft for Preschoolers

Time for some horsing around. If you and you kids LOVE horses.. we have a super cute, quick and easy horse craft for preschoolers today! Come and make this super cute little paper plate horse craft with us today! This cute little horse, could of course easily be adapated to be a paper plate unicorn too! Simply add a little horn and rainbow mains.. and sorted.

Fun with Paper Plate Horses

So sweet!

Supplies to make your paper plate horses!

Each paper plate can make TWO paper plate horses:

• A paper plate (or half a paper plate)
• Brown paint
• Black paint/ pens
• Optional: paper scraps in brown or black BUT you can also use paper plate left overs
• Scissors
• Glue stick
• Paint Brush

How to make a paper plate horse with your preschooler

You can watch our little paper plate horse video tutorial on auto play or check the step by step instructions below!

Let’s make a paper plate horse – step by step photos

There are actually two ways of making this – with JUST the paper plate or with brown paper cut outs. If you are going to JUST use the paper plate, you may want to paint the whole plate brown first. And use the cut out for your horse head and tail.

Cut out the arche of the paper plate and paint brown.

Cut out your basic horse shapes – you will need an egg shaped oval for the horse’s head, two ears (like tear drops) and a an arche for the tail.

Stick the ears to the horse’s head.

Now you will need a horses mane and “tassle” for the tail. You can cut these from spare paper or use any left over paper plate cut outs.

Glue to the horse parts.

You will also need a beige “muzzle” for the horse. Glue in place.

Now glue the horses head and tail to your paper plate arche.

And draw on eyes and nostrils.

Wasn’t this easy?

Such a super cute little Horse Craft for farmyward play!

I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

Aaaaand.. wouldn’t this also make a lovely Year of the Horse craft – a perfect little Zodiac Animal Craft for preschoolers!! So fun!

Check out more Horse Crafts here:

How about some sock horses – with this horse sock puppet and DIY Hobby Horse?

Or more fun with paper crafts:

With this cute Horse Finger Puppet or 3d Horse Coloring Pages (part of a Farmyard Set here or Zodiac Coloring pages!).

Or take a peak at our Paper Plate Crafts here:

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