7 Letter F Crafts for Preschoolers (Easy Ideas)

Start here: three letter F crafts that always work

Fork painted fireworksA fork, three paints, black paperCoffee filter flowersColor, spray, scrunch, a three aloneLetter F frogThe letter becomes the frog

7 letter F preschool crafts, with pictures

1. Letter F frog

The child glues a green F to paper and adds bulging eyes, a red tongue and long back legs to make a frog.

You need: green paper, white paper, red paper, 2 googly eyes, 1 sheet of light blue paper, glue stick

How to make it

1. You cut a large green capital F. Your child glues it upright on the light blue sheet.
2. Glue 2 white circles on top of the top bar and a googly eye on each.
3. Glue a long red strip with a curled end on the tip of the top bar as a tongue.
4. Fold 2 green strips like an accordion and glue them at the bottom of the stem as back legs, one going each way.

2. Coffee filter flowers

The child colours filters, wets them so the colours bleed, then scrunches them onto a pipe cleaner stem.

You need: 3 round white coffee filters, washable markers, spray bottle of water, 3 green pipe cleaners, clear tape

How to make it

1. Your child scribbles each filter with markers.
2. Spray with water so the colours bleed. Let them dry.
3. Pinch each filter in the middle and scrunch it into a ruffled flower.
4. Twist a green pipe cleaner around the pinched point as a stem, and hold it with a little clear tape.

3. Egg carton flowers

The child paints cut-out egg carton cups in bright colours and attaches them to straw or pipe cleaner stems to make a bouquet.

You need: egg carton cups, paint, flat buttons, green pipe cleaners, glue

How to make it

1. You cut the cups apart. Your child paints them inside and out. Let them dry.
2. Glue 1 button flat in the bottom of each cup as the centre.
3. Make a hole in the bottom of each cup and push a green pipe cleaner through. Bend it over as a stem.

4. Handprint fish

The child makes sideways handprints in bright colours and adds eyes, bubbles and seaweed to make fish.

You need: 1 sheet of blue paper, 2 colours of paint, 2 googly eyes, black marker, green paper, glue

How to make it

1. Paint your child's hand and press it sideways in the upper half of the blue paper.
2. Wash, then repeat in the other colour in the lower half.
3. Let the prints dry, then glue 1 googly eye on the palm end of each fish and draw a small smile.
4. You cut 2 wavy green strips. Glue them standing up from the bottom edge as seaweed.
5. Draw small circles above each fish as bubbles.

5. Handprint flag

The child's blue palm and red-and-white striped fingers print as an American flag.

You need: 1 sheet of tan paper, blue paint, red paint, white paint

How to make it

1. Paint your child's palm and thumb blue and the four fingers in turn red, white, red, white.
2. Press the hand once in the middle of the paper, fingers pointing right. Lift straight up.
3. When the blue palm is dry, your child presses white fingertip dots on it as stars.

6. Paper plate frog

The child paints a paper plate green and adds big eyes, a curled red paper tongue and handprint feet.

You need: 1 white paper plate, green paint, green paper, red paper, 2 large googly eyes, black marker, glue

How to make it

1. Your child paints the plate green. Let it dry.
2. You cut 2 green circles. Glue them to the top rim, sticking up, with a googly eye on each.
3. Draw a wide smile with the marker. Cut a red strip, curl the end and glue it below the smile as a tongue.
4. Cut 2 green feet with 3 rounded toes each and glue them under the bottom rim.

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7. Fork painted fireworks

The child stamps a fork dipped in bright paint outward from a centre on black paper to make bursting fireworks.

You need: 1 sheet of black paper, 1 fork, red, blue and yellow paint, gold glitter

How to make it

1. Dip the back of the fork in paint.
2. Your child presses it again and again on the black paper, prints pointing outward from one centre point, to make a round burst.
3. Make more bursts in the other colours.
4. Sprinkle gold glitter over the wet paint.

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Letter F crafts for 3 year olds

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

Frogs, flowers and fireworks with a 3 year old

Fork painted fireworks is the quickest: a fork, three bright paints on a plate and black paper. Show one outward stamp from the center, then hand over the fork. Glitter is optional and goes on while the paint is wet.

Coffee filter flowers are a three year old craft from start to finish: color, dunk or spray, scrunch around a pipe cleaner. Egg carton flowers need the cups cut and holes poked for the stems first, which is yours.

The letter F frog and paper plate frog both want a curled red tongue. Wrap a strip of red paper around a pencil, hold it for a count of ten, and it springs. Say f, f, frog as the legs go on.

Handprint fish and the handprint flag need a helper to lift the hand straight up. The flag and the fireworks go on the fridge for the Fourth, and the flowers make a bouquet in a jar for a grandparent.

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