We love farm animal crafts and this paper plate cow craft is so easy to make it’s a great one to try out with your kids.

Using paper plates for all the different parts of the cows face means that you won’t need to worry about looking for bits of paper or card to match the main part and the black splodges are fun to make with our printing materials.

Using pom poms for printing means you don’t need to worry about your cow looking Pinterest perfect, wherever your paint lands is exactly the right place it’s meant to be!

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As well as this paper plate cow craft today I’m sharing some fantastic looking farm animal books for kids and some of our favourite farm animal crafts that we’ve made.

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Farm Animal Books for Kids

We love any excuse to read and share a story and these books about farms and farm animals all look fantastic!

Night Night Farm* by Roger Priddy
Little Blue Truck* by Alice Schertle
Pete The Cat: Old MacDonald Had a Farm* by James Dean

Cow Craft

How to make a cow out of a paper plate, an easy farm animal craft.

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Keyword: easy, paper plate

Prep Time: 5

Activity Time: 10

Total Time: 15

Author: Kate Williams

Equipment

Double sided sellotape
Pom poms
Reusable plate
Black paint
Yellow Paint
Black pen

Materials

2 Paper Plates
Pink paper or card

Instructions

Pour some black paint and yellow paint onto a reusable plate.
Dab a pom pom into the black paint and then dab this onto one of your paper plates to make the cows' black markings.
From the second paper plate cut out the shapes for the cows ears, horns and eyes.
Add black marks to the cows ears using your pom pom and the black paint.
Paint the cows horns yellow using another pom pom and your yellow paint.
Using your black pen, draw dots in both the eyes to make the pupils.
Cut out a large oval from your pink paper.
Draw on two vertical lines to make the cows nostrils and then add a horizontal line for the cows mouth. A smile is always good here!
Once the paint on your paper plates has dried stick on the eyes, ears and horns using double sided sellotape. You can use normal glue for the pink part of the face but the sellotape will work better for the more unusual shape of the paper plates.
Your cow craft is now finished!