5 Letter I Crafts for Preschoolers (Easy Ideas)

Start here: three letter I crafts that always work

Ice paintingFrozen cubes do the painting, no brushesSponge print iglooWhite paint and a sponge, count the blocksLetter I ice creamThe dot on the i is the scoop

5 letter I crafts for preschoolers, with pictures

1. Letter I ice cream

The child turns a lowercase i into an ice cream: the stem becomes the cone and the dot a scoop with a cherry on top.

You need: light brown construction paper, pink construction paper, 1 small red pom pom, brown crayon, 1 sheet of white paper, glue stick

How to make it

1. You cut a tall, narrow brown rectangle as the cone. Your child glues it upright on the lower part of the white sheet.
2. Your child draws criss-cross lines down the cone with the brown crayon.
3. Cut a pink circle a little wider than the cone. Glue it above the cone, leaving a thin white gap.
4. Glue the red pom pom on top of the pink circle.

2. Puffy paint ice cream cone

The child mixes shaving cream with glue and a little paint and dollops the fluffy mix on top of a paper cone.

You need: light blue cardstock, brown paper, shaving cream, white glue, pink paint, rainbow sprinkles

How to make it

1. You cut a brown triangle and glue it point down on the light blue cardstock as the cone.
2. Mix shaving cream, white glue and pink paint into thick puffy paint.
3. Your child spoons and spreads a thick mound above the cone as a round scoop.
4. Drop sprinkles on the wet paint. Leave it flat to dry for a day.

3. Egg carton ice cream cone

The child paints egg carton cups as scoops and stacks them on a paper cone with a pompom cherry.

You need: single egg carton cups, pink, light green and yellow paint, brown paper, 1 red pom pom, light blue paper, white glue

How to make it

1. You cut the cups apart and cut them in half. Your child paints them. Let them dry.
2. Cut a brown triangle and glue it point down on the light blue paper as the cone.
3. Glue the halved cups upside down in a stack above the cone, the first one touching the cone.
4. Glue the red pom pom on top as a cherry.

4. Ice painting

The child paints with frozen coloured ice cubes on sticks, or paints watercolour onto a block of ice.

You need: thick white paper, coloured ice cubes, tray

How to make it

1. You colour water red, blue and yellow with food colour and freeze it in an ice cube tray with craft sticks in them, ahead of time.
2. Lay the paper flat on a tray. Your child slides and rubs the ice over it while holding it like a brush.
3. Watch the colours run together. Let the paper dry flat.

5. Sponge print igloo

The child stamps white paint rectangles with a sponge in a dome shape on dark paper to build an igloo.

You need: 1 sheet of dark blue construction paper, white poster paint, 1 small rectangular sponge, black paper, glue

How to make it

1. Your child dips the sponge in white paint and stamps a row of blocks near the bottom of the dark blue paper.
2. Stamp more rows above it, each row shorter than the last, so the blocks build a dome. Let the paint dry.
3. You cut a small black arch and glue it at the bottom centre of the dome as the doorway.

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Letter I crafts for 3 year olds

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

Ice, ice cream and the short i sound

Ice painting takes planning the night before: fill an ice cube tray with water and a drop of food coloring or washable paint, add a craft stick to each cube, and freeze. In the morning it is a tray, paper and a towel. A three does it alone.

Puffy paint is equal parts shaving cream and white glue with a squeeze of paint, mixed in a bowl. Spoon it on the paper cone and leave it overnight to set. It stays puffy once dry.

For the letter I ice cream, the lowercase i matters: the stem is the cone and the dot is the scoop. Draw it big, and the child glues on a cone and a round scoop with a cherry. Say the letter name, i, as the cherry goes on, and the short i, as in igloo, for the sponge print igloo.

The sponge print igloo is white paint on dark blue paper, one sponge rectangle at a time in a dome. Count the blocks when it is done. The puffy paint cone is the one visitors reach out and touch.

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