7 Letter C Crafts for Preschoolers (Easy Ideas)

Start here: three letter C crafts that always work

Stamped circle caterpillarGreen paint and a sponge, ten minutesFork painted chickA fork does the fluffLetter C caterpillarCircles glued along the letter itself

7 letter C crafts for preschool, with pictures

1. Letter C caterpillar

The child glues paper circles along a big letter C and adds a face and antennae to make a curled caterpillar.

You need: green construction paper, 1 red paper circle, yellow paper circles, 2 small googly eyes, black paper and marker, white paper, glue stick

How to make it

1. You cut a large capital C from green paper. Your child glues it on the white sheet.
2. Glue the red circle on the top end as the head.
3. Your child glues yellow circles in a row along the curve, touching, down to the bottom end.
4. Stick 2 eyes on the red circle and draw a smile. Glue 2 short black strips behind the head as antennae.

2. Stamped circle caterpillar

The child stamps a row of green circles with a sponge, pom pom or potato masher and one red circle for the head.

You need: white paper, round sponge, green and red paint, black marker

How to make it

1. Your child dips the sponge in green paint and stamps circles in a row across the paper, each touching the next.
2. Stamp one red circle at one end as the head.
3. Let it dry.
4. Draw 2 dot eyes and a small smile on the red circle, and 2 short antenna lines above it.

3. Eggshell caterpillar garden

The child fills a row of eggshell halves in a carton with soil and cress or grass seed, adds a face, and watches the caterpillar grow green hair.

You need: a strip of egg carton cups, eggshell halves, potting soil, cress seed, 2 googly eyes, 1 green pipe cleaner

How to make it

1. Set one eggshell half, open side up, in each cup.
2. Spoon soil into each shell to below its rim, sprinkle with cress seed and water lightly.
3. Stick 2 googly eyes on the front of the shell at one end.
4. Bend the pipe cleaner into a V and push it into the soil of that shell as antennae.
5. Wait for the sprouts.

4. Fork painted chick

The child stamps yellow paint outward with a fork to make a fluffy chick, then adds eyes, beak and legs.

You need: light blue cardstock, yellow paint, fork, 2 googly eyes, orange paper, glue

How to make it

1. Dip the back of the fork in yellow paint. Your child stamps it in the middle of the cardstock, marks pointing outward all around, to make a round fluffy body.
2. Let it dry.
3. You cut a small orange triangle for the beak and 2 small feet.
4. Glue 2 eyes and the beak in the middle of the yellow, and the feet at the bottom edge.

5. Handprint chick

The child makes a yellow handprint and adds an eye, an orange beak and legs to make a chick.

You need: white paper, yellow paint, 1 googly eye, 1 small orange paper triangle, orange marker, glue

How to make it

1. Paint your child's hand yellow and press it sideways on the paper, fingers as tail feathers and thumb pointing up as the head and neck.
2. Let it dry.
3. Glue the googly eye on the tip of the thumb and the orange triangle beside it as the beak.
4. Draw 2 stick legs with 3 toes each under the palm with the orange marker.

6. Handprint Christmas tree

The child prints green hands in rows to form a tree, then dots on fingerprint lights and a star.

You need: green poster paint, red, yellow and blue poster paint, yellow paper, white cardstock, glue

How to make it

1. Paint your child's palm green and stamp one handprint at the top of the cardstock with the fingers pointing down.
2. Stamp 2 more green handprints side by side below it, overlapping slightly, to make a triangle tree.
3. Let it dry, then your child presses red, yellow and blue fingerprint dots on the tree as lights.
4. Cut a yellow star and glue it at the top.

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7. Paper plate cow

The child glues or paints black spots on a white paper plate and adds ears, a pink nose and eyes.

You need: 1 small white paper plate, black construction paper, 1 pink paper oval, 2 googly eyes, black marker, glue

How to make it

1. Your child tears pieces of black paper.
2. Glue the torn pieces on the plate as spots.
3. You cut 2 black ears. Your child glues them behind the rim at the top, one on each side.
4. Glue the pink oval at the bottom of the plate, then 2 googly eyes above it.
5. You draw 2 nostril dots on the pink nose with the marker.

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Letter C crafts for 3 year olds

Two of these a young three can do almost alone: Stamped circle caterpillar, Fork painted chick. No exact cutting, no small pieces, and the glue stick does the rest. For the others, you cut and they glue.

Circles, chicks and the letter C sound

Cut a pile of paper circles in two or three colors before you begin. The child glues them along a big C you drew with a marker. Say c, c, caterpillar for each circle, and count them at the end.

The stamped circle caterpillar and the fork painted chick are the two a three can do with no help once the paint is on the plate. Stamping outward with a fork takes a minute to show, then it is theirs.

Handprints need a second pair of hands. For the handprint chick and handprint Christmas tree, paint the palm with a brush rather than dipping, press, lift straight up, and go wash before the beak and lights get added.

The eggshell caterpillar garden lives on the windowsill and gets a little water. The paper plate cow and the caterpillars go on the wall at child height, where the child can point to the C.

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