Chinese New Year Horse Coloring Page in 3D
Chinese New Year, a wonderful and fun time for us to explore all the different Zodiac animals! 2026 we greet the year of the Horse after 12 whole years! To celebrate this new exciting change, I share this simple yet fun 3D horse coloring page. Perfect for kids, students, or even adults! With this coloring page, a wide range of media can be used, for example watercolour and felt tip pens. This allows for a exciting activity for all! You can get this as an invidiual printable, or as part of a larger set of all 12 Zodiac Animal Coloring Pages in 3d! Make one.. make them all!
This Year Of The Horse Coloring Page can be downloaded either individually or as part of our bigger full set of 12 Zodiac Animal Coloring Pages with 3D elements!
About the year of the horse
When is the year of the horse – as mentioned the year of the horse is every twelve years. The last time was in 2014 (the Wood Horse). Now 2026 will be the year of the horse once again and it will be celebrated on 17th Febuary 2026 and it will be the year of the Fire Horse. Other year of the horse are 1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014, 2026, 2038, 2050!
The year of the horse lucky colours are green and yellow! Lucky numbers are two, three, and seven!
Full set of 12 Zodiac Animal Coloring Pages:
As mentioned, this fun horse coloring page, is part of a full set of 12 Zodiac Animals, that you can get all in one go.
What you’ll need for this 3D Horse Coloring craft:
- printer paper and a printer – grab the printable
- coloring pens, pencils , markers, watercolours – anything you like!
- scissors
- a gluestick
Why not treat yourself and get the whole set of 12 Zodiac Animal Coloring pages? Including the super popular DRAGON Coloring Page?
Step by step guide for Horse Zodiac assembly
You can watch the Year of the Tiger video tutorial or follow the step by step instructions outlined below!
Use watercolor or felt tip pens (or both) for your background. If water colour was used, once finished, set your background aside to dry fully.
In the meanwhile, take the time to color in the horse coloring page.
After drying, carefully cut out the background by following the dotted lines. A nice rectangular shape should be the aim! This is a fun opprtunity for kids to practice and improve their cutting skills.
Carefully cut out all shapes of the horse printable.
Add a small amount of glue to the BACK of the horse’s head. Make sure to ONLY apply the glue to ONE END of the head to prevent it from flattening.
Now, allign each end of the horse’s head and glue down only the ends. You should have a loop shape. Rememeber, do not press down on he crease as the loop effect is what creates the 3D look!
Nearly there! Glue the horse’s body to the desired placement on the fully dried backgorund. And finally, glue the top back of the horse’s head on top of the horse’s body to finish it off.
And there you have it. A easy yet fun opportunity to incoorporate mixed media work and practice scissor cutting skills.
Had fun? Be sure to check out all of our fun Chinese New Year Crafts – Including the highly popular FREE Dragon Puppet here:
Or why not explore more zodiac animal crafts – with crafts for each animal.. including a Zodiac Animal Origami collection and a Zodiac Animal Bookmark collection:
