How to Draw: Horse
Ages 5–10 · 7 minutes · Art
Giddy up! Stirrup your drawing skills with this moderate level horse drawing.
Required materials: pencil, paper, coloring utensils (optional)
In this step-by-step directed drawing, children will be guided through a horse drawing.
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Standards alignment
Alabama
- ELA21.K.33 — Express ideas orally and connect these ideas through drawing and emergent writing.
Alaska
- K.G.5 — Build shapes (e.g., using sticks and clay) and draw shapes.
Arizona
- 1.SL.5 — Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
- K.SL.5 — Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Arkansas
- K.GM.5 — Compose and draw shapes found in the world using objects (e.g., straws, toothpicks, clay balls).
Colorado
- RWC20-GR.PS-S.1-GLE.1-EO.c — Follow two- to three-step directions.
- RWC20-GR.PS-S.3-GLE.1-EO.c — Use scribbles, shapes, pictures, and letters to represent objects, stories, experiences, or ideas.
- RWC20-GR.PS-S.3-GLE.1-EO.a — Experiment with writing tools and materials.
Florida
- SC.K2.CS-CS.2.6 (Discontinued after 2024-2025) — Illustrate thoughts, ideas, and stories in a step-by-step manner using writing tools, digital cameras, and drawing tools.
Georgia
- K.GSR.8.3 — Use basic shapes to represent specific shapes found in the environment by creating models and drawings.
Idaho
- K.G.A.1 — Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as “above,” “below,” beside, “in front of,” “behind,” and “next to.”
- K.G.B.5 — Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components/materials and drawing shapes.
Indiana
- K.CC.5 — Follow simple two or three-step oral directions.
Kentucky
- KY.K.G.1 — Name and describe shapes in the environment.
Maryland
- K.G.B.5 — Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components (e.g., sticks and clay balls) and drawing shapes.
Massachusetts
- PreK-LS1-1(MA) — Compare, using descriptions and drawings, the external body parts of animals (including humans) and plants and explain functions of some of the observable body parts.
- SL.K.5 — Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Mississippi
- SL.K.5 — Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Missouri
- 2.SL.1.A.b — following three-step instructions, according to classroom expectations
- K.GM.C.9 — Draw or model simple two-dimensional shapes.
Montana
- SL.K.5 — Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Nebraska
- LA.2.SL.1.e — Complete a task following multi-step directions.
- LA.3.SL.1.e — Complete a task following multi-step directions.
- LA.1.SL.1.e — Complete a task following one/two-step directions.
New Jersey
- SL.K.5 — Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
North Carolina
- SL.K.5 — Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
North Dakota
- 2.C.7 — Work collaboratively by following agreed-upon rules and following/offering multi-step oral directions.
Oklahoma
- 1.1.L.2 — Students will follow simple two- and three-step oral directions.
- 2.1.L.2 — Students will follow multi-step oral directions.
- K.2.W.1 — Students will express themselves through drawing and emergent writing.
Oregon
- 1.SL.5 — Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
- K.SL.5 — Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Pennsylvania
- Use and share pictures, drawings, and/or writings of observations.
- 3.5.3-5.C — Follow directions to complete a technological task.
Rhode Island
- Use and share pictures, drawings, and/or writings of observations.
South Carolina
- K.G.5 — Draw two-dimensional shapes (i.e., square, rectangle, triangle, hexagon, and circle) and create models of three-dimensional shapes (i.e., cone, cube, cylinder, and sphere).
South Dakota
- 1.SL.5 — Create drawings or other visual displays when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings
Tennessee
- K.ETS1.2 — Describe objects accurately by drawing and/or labeling pictures.
Texas
- K.6F — create two-dimensional shapes using a variety of materials and drawings.
- K.10C — revise drafts by adding details in pictures or words;
Utah
- P3.W.5 — With prompting and support, print some age-appropriate prewriting strokes.
- P4.SL.1.b — Follow two-step directions.
West Virginia
- ELA.PK.WR.EW.1 — Use scribbles, shapes, pictures, and letters to represent objects, stories, experiences, or ideas.
- ELA.PK.WR.EW.5 — Experiment with a variety of writing tools and materials (ex: pencils, chalk, markers, sand, developmentally appropriate technology)
Wisconsin
- ELA.1.SL.5 — Create an original or utilize existing visual displays to support descriptions to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
- ELA.K.SL.5 — With guidance and support, create an original or utilize existing visual displays to support descriptions.
Wyoming
- SL.1.5 — Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
- SL.K.5 — Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.