Paper Plate Horse

Continuing with our horse theme, today we made a paper plate horse.

First Hailey painted a paper plate brown.

Once the paint was dry she taped some legs on the other side of the plate.

Hailey added a head (I found a coloring sheet here and reduced it to 60%).  Then she added some yarn for the tail and the mane.

The completed paper plate horse.

We’ve been reading a lot of books about horses this week too.  Hailey loves to look at her books.  She’s checking out a few of the horse books we got from the library.

Handprint Horses

Continuing with our horse theme this week, Hailey made some handprint horses.

I traced Hailey’s hand and then added a little smiley face and hooves.

Hailey wanted to add some spots to her horses.

Hailey glued the horses onto the paper.

Then added some popsicle sticks to make a fence.

Hailey added some yarn for a tail and a mane.

The finished handprint horses.

Tags: handprint horse, horses, preschool horse activity

Horse Craft

A couple of weeks ago Hailey came up with a bunch of topics that she wants to learn about.  The first one she picked is horses and ponies.  So, this week she is learning all about horses and ponies.  We started out by getting all sorts of books at the library.  I had a hard time coming up with art activities to do for horses… so here’s the first thing we did:

Hailey painted this page from DLTK.

Then she painted a toilet paper roll brown.

The completed horse from the side so you can see his tail.

Another view of the horse.

Then since horses eat grass- we planted some grass.

Hailey in our shed getting some dirt for our grass.

Adding just a little bit of grass seed 🙂

Day one of our grass growing experiment.

Hailey loves mazes- so I found some horse mazes for her to do.

Tags: farm animals, horses, preschool horse activity

Lion and Lamb Puppets

Since we’re learning about weather in March this week I had Hailey make some lion and lamb puppets.

First I painted each of her hands- one yellow and one white.  Notice anything unusual about the yellow hand print?  Somehow she ended up with 6 fingers on that hand, which I did not notice until later.

After the hand print was dry I drew on a tail, face, and some claws.  Hailey added some orange and yellow tissue paper for the mane of the lion.

Then she added some cotton for the lamb.

Here are the lion and the lamb.

We also added a popsicle stick to the back so Hailey can use them as puppets.