Since stripes are the most notable characteristic of zebras, host a project in your preschool classroom for young students to paint black stripes onto a white zebra. Provide your preschoolers with a zebra printable for them to fill in with the paint, and decide how you want them to paint the stripes into the picture. For instance, preschoolers can use regular paint brushes, or you may wish to allow them to use toothpicks that they dip into black paint and draw across the zebra image. After the paintings have dried, students can take home their zebras.
A zebra collage is a preschool project that will keep young students entertained for a while. They begin by placing one foot on white paper and tracing around their shoe with a pencil. Then, they cut out the traced line with craft scissors and glue it onto a piece of brown or green construction paper. Using the scraps of white paper, the kids cut out two little triangles to be used as the zebra's ears. Those should be glued on top of the zebra's head. Another long strip of white paper is glued next to the head to serve as the zebra's neck. For decoration, give students black construction paper so they can cut out strips of black to glue onto the zebra as its stripes. Google eyes should be glued onto the face for a finishing touch.
The stripes of a zebra can be used to create a maze for preschoolers to complete on a worksheet. Start by drawing the outline of a zebra on a piece of paper. Then, draw in the stripes so that they become a maze. Make sure the maze is age appropriate for students in preschool to be able to figure out. Make copies of the drawing and pass it out to your preschoolers. The goal is for them to draw a line using a pencil from start to finish, working their way through the maze of stripes.
Preschoolers can make their own miniature zebras out of cork, toothpicks, paint and yarn. You need three corks total, in varying sizes. The largest cork is used for the body of the zebra, the second largest is for the neck and the smallest cork is for the zebra's face. Connect the corks using the toothpicks. Then, stick four toothpicks into the bottom belly of the zebra to become the legs. Your students will then use black and white paint to create stripes all along the corks. For the finale, preschoolers glue the black yarn onto the back of the zebra for its tail, as well as along its neck for its mane.