7 Letter H Crafts for Preschoolers (Easy Ideas)

Start here: three letter H crafts that always work

Tissue paper heart suncatcherNo glue, sticks straight to contact paperFingerprint heart cardTwo fingerprints make a heartSalt dough handprint keepsakeThe one you keep for years

7 preschool crafts for the letter H, with pictures

1. Letter H house

The child glues an H to paper, adds a triangle roof on top and fills the gaps with a door and windows.

You need: red construction paper, brown paper, yellow paper, blue paper, 1 sheet of white paper, glue stick

How to make it

1. You cut a large capital H from red paper. Your child glues it upright on the white sheet.
2. Cut a wide brown triangle and glue it across the top of the H as a roof, covering the tops of both posts.
3. Cut 2 yellow squares and glue one on each post above the crossbar as windows.
4. Cut a blue rectangle and glue it under the crossbar as a door.

2. Salt dough handprint keepsake

The child presses a hand into salt dough, which is dried and painted.

You need: salt dough, rolling pin, round cutter or cup, paint of choice, paintbrush

How to make it

1. Roll the salt dough out thick and cut a round disc about as wide as a saucer.
2. Your child presses one open hand into the middle, fingers spread, then you lift it away.
3. Let the disc dry hard, for a day or two.
4. Paint the inside of the handprint.

3. Fingerprint heart card

The child presses two fingerprints at an angle to make little hearts across the front of a card.

You need: 1 piece of white cardstock folded as a card, red washable paint, pink washable paint

How to make it

1. Fold the cardstock in half and lay it closed with the front facing up.
2. Dab your child's fingertip in paint and press it on the card at an angle. Press a second print next to it so the two meet at the bottom in a V. That is one heart.
3. Make more hearts in red and pink, leaving white sapce between them.
4. Let the paint dry before opening the card.

4. Tissue paper heart suncatcher

The child sticks pink and red tissue squares onto contact paper inside a heart frame for the window.

You need: red paper, clear contact paper, small pink and red tissue paper squares

How to make it

1. You cut a red paper heart with a smaller heart cut out of the middle.
2. Peel the backing off the contact paper and lay it sticky side up. Stick the frame onto it.
3. Your child presses tissue squares onto the sticky paper inside the opening until it is filled.
4. Trim the extra contact paper around the frame. Tape it in a window.

5. Heart name craft

The child glues paper hearts in a row, one letter of their name on each, in the right order.

You need: coloured paper, 1 long strip of white paper, black marker, glue stick

How to make it

1. You cut one paper heart for each letter of the name, in different colours.
2. Write one big letter on each heart with the marker.
3. Lay the strip flat. Your child glues the hearts along it from left to right in name order.

6. Striped Cat in the Hat hat

The child glues red paper strips across a tall white hat to make the stripes.

You need: white cardstock, red paper, glue stick

How to make it

1. You cut a tall rectangle with a wider flat brim at the bottom from white cardstock.
2. Cut 3 red strips.
3. Your child glues the strips across the tall part, leaving white bands between them.

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7. Hibernating animal puppets

The child colours bear, bat, hedgehog and frog puppets and tucks them into a box or bag den.

You need: 4 printed animals (bear, bat, hedgehog, frog), crayons, 4 popsicle sticks, clear tape

How to make it

1. Your child colours the 4 animals.
2. You cut them out.
3. Tape each animal to the top of its own stick.

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Letter H crafts for 3 year olds

One of these a young three can do almost alone: Tissue paper heart suncatcher. No exact cutting, no small pieces, and the glue stick does the rest.

Houses, hearts and handprints: setting up letter H crafts

The tissue paper heart suncatcher is the no-glue one. Tape contact paper sticky side up to the table, cut a heart frame from card, and the child presses pink and red squares on. It goes straight in the window.

For the letter H house, cut or draw a big H and a triangle. The child glues the roof across the top and fills the two gaps with a door and windows. Say h, h, house, a puff of air on the hand, as each window goes on.

Salt dough is flour, salt and water kneaded on the counter, then a hand pressed in flat. Bake it low and slow or leave it to dry for a few days before painting. Write the date on the back. The fingerprint heart card is the quick gift if there is no time for dough.

The heart name craft goes on the bedroom door. The hibernating animal puppets live in a shoebox den for winter play, and the striped Cat in the Hat hat goes to school for a book character day.

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