Cute Farm Animal Paper Plate Crafts for Kids
All you need is a stack of paper plates to make a whole barnyard. Here are easy paper plate farm animal crafts for kids, from a curly-tailed pig to a fluffy chicken. Each one links to step-by-step photos, and most have a printable template so you can skip the tracing.
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1Paper Plate Cow Craft
A great first paper plate animal. Kids sketch the spots, paint them in, then glue on cardstock ears and a pink muzzle.
2Paper Plate Pig Craft
Paint the plate two shades of pink, add a cardstock snout and ears, and stamp on rosy cheeks with a sponge dabber. A pipe cleaner twisted into a curly tail finishes it off.
3Paper Plate Horse Craft
Lots of snipping in this one. Fringed cardstock strips become a shaggy mane and forelock on a brown painted plate.
4Paper Plate Chicken Craft
No paint needed. Kids trim off the top of the plate and layer cardstock feathers for the tail and wing.
5Paper Plate Goat Craft
This goat uses two plates, one tan and one ivory, so the muzzle sits on top of the face. Folded cardstock ears give it a little extra shape.
6Paper Plate Mouse Craft
Gray paint, a dotted pink muzzle, two white teeth and black pipe cleaner whiskers. The small pieces make it good precision practice for older preschoolers.
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7Classic Paper Plate Cow Craft
This cow sticks to simple shapes: gray spots, gray ears and a pink muzzle on a white plate.
8Classic Paper Plate Pig Craft
Pointy pink ears and a round snout on a pink plate, with the ruffled edge left showing around the face.
9Classic Paper Plate Horse Craft
This horse is painted in brown and white, then finished with black and light pink paper details.
10Classic Paper Plate Chicken Craft
A red comb, a red wattle and an orange beak on a bright yellow plate.
11Classic Paper Plate Goat Craft
Gray paint, tan horns, long ears and pink cheeks make this goat.
12Paper Plate Sheep Craft
Paint the plate, cut out the face and ears, and put the sheep together. Kids get to decide the details, like black spots or pink ears.
13Paper Plate Duck Craft
Lemon yellow paint, with a beak and feet cut from orange construction paper. One of the simpler crafts on this list.
14Paper Plate Donkey Craft
A paper plate donkey for your farm unit. Kids color, cut and glue the pieces onto the plate.
15Paper Plate Dog Craft
Floppy ears and a pink tongue hanging out make this puppy extra silly.
16Paper Plate Cat Craft
Stripes painted across the plate turn it into a tabby, with pink inside the ears.
17Paper Plate Llama Craft
A white llama dressed in a bright blanket with tassels.
18Paper Plate Bunny Craft
Long white cardstock ears, a pink muzzle and pipe cleaner whiskers.
19Paper Plate Chick Craft
A bright yellow plate with orange feathers, cardstock wings and little feet. It works for spring and Easter, too.
20Paper Plate Chicks in a Nest Craft
Paint the plate brown, shape it into a nest and fill it with paper shred. Then tuck in the cardstock chicks.
21Paper Plate Easter Egg and Chick Craft
An egg made from two plates and a brad fastener opens up to show a chick inside.
22Paper Plate Crow Craft
Black paint, a golden yellow cardstock beak and skinny yellow legs.
23Paper Plate Harvest Corn Craft
Sponge-dabbed yellow kernels fill a cardstock cob, framed by green husks.
Want popsicle stick and handprint farm animals, too? See all of our farm animal crafts for kids.
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