Preschool Crafts

4 Letter J Crafts for Preschoolers (Easy, Low Prep)

4 letter J crafts for preschoolers with pictures, from jellyfish to jars. Easy ideas for ages 3 to 5 that build letter recognition.

Kindergarten Prep Team
Oct 15, 2026

Half a paper plate with ribbon hanging off it is a jellyfish, about the right size of craft for a wet Tuesday. Here are four letter J crafts for preschoolers, with pictures, supplies, and steps: three are jellyfish.

A three-year-old presses dot markers and tapes on ribbon tentacles. A five-year-old cuts wavy tentacles and glues them in a row. They fit the week of J or an ocean week, and the jack-o'-lantern waits for October.

Start here: three letter J crafts that always work

Paper plate jellyfish, an easy letter J craft for preschoolers made from simple suppliesPaper plate jellyfishDot markers and ribbon, a three aloneCupcake liner jellyfish, an easy letter J craft for preschoolers made from simple suppliesCupcake liner jellyfishOne cupcake liner and a glue stickLetter J jellyfish, an easy letter J craft for preschoolers made from simple suppliesLetter J jellyfishTissue squares on the letter itself

4 letter J crafts for preschoolers, with pictures

Letter J jellyfish, an easy letter J craft for preschoolers made from simple supplies

1. Letter J jellyfish

The child covers a J with tissue squares, adds a pom pom bell with eyes on top and wavy paper tentacles.

You need: white paper, pink paper, pink tissue paper, pink pom poms, 2 googly eyes, glue

How to make it
  1. You cut a large capital J and a half circle from pink paper. Your child glues the J on the white sheet, and the half circle flat side down across the top of the J as the bell.
  2. Your child glues pink tissue squares all over the J.
  3. Glue pom poms along the curve of the bell and the 2 googly eyes in the middle of it.
  4. Cut wavy strips from pink paper and glue them hanging from the bell on both sides of the J as tentacles.
Paper plate jellyfish, an easy letter J craft for preschoolers made from simple supplies

2. Paper plate jellyfish

The child decorates half a paper plate with dot markers, adds eyes and tapes on yarn or ribbon tentacles.

You need: 1 white paper plate, pink and purple dot markers, pink yarn, 2 large googly eyes, clear tape, glue

How to make it
  1. You cut the plate in half. Place one half with the curved edge at the top.
  2. Your child stamps dots all over it with the dot markers.
  3. Tape yarn pieces behind the straight bottom edge so they hang down as tentacles.
  4. Glue the 2 large googly eyes in the middle.
Paper plate jack-o-lantern, an easy letter J craft for preschoolers made from simple supplies

3. Paper plate jack-o-lantern

The child paints a plate orange, adds a green stem and glues on black shapes for the face.

You need: 1 white paper plate, orange poster paint, green paper, black paper, glue

How to make it
  1. Your child paints the plate orange. Let it dry.
  2. You cut a small green rectangle. Glue it on the top rim as a stem.
  3. Cut 3 black triangles and a crescent. Glue 2 triangles in the upper half as eyes and 1 in the middle as a nose.
  4. Glue the crescent in the lower half as a smiling mouth.
Cupcake liner jellyfish, an easy letter J craft for preschoolers made from simple supplies

4. Cupcake liner jellyfish

The child glues a flattened or folded cupcake liner on blue paper and draws or glues streamer tentacles below it.

You need: 1 sheet of blue paper, 1 cupcake liner, crepe streamers, 2 googly eyes, glue

How to make it
  1. Flatten the cupcake liner and cut it in half.
  2. Glue it on the blue paper, round side up, as the bell.
  3. Your child glues streamers under the straight edge, hanging down in wavy lines.
  4. Stick the 2 googly eyes on the liner.
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Letter J crafts for 3 year olds

Two of these a young three can do almost alone: Paper plate jellyfish, Cupcake liner jellyfish. No exact cutting, no small pieces, and the glue stick does the rest. For the others, you cut and they glue.

Jellyfish three ways with a 3 year old

The paper plate jellyfish is the one to start with: half a plate, dot markers, googly eyes and a handful of ribbon or yarn pieces cut to a hand's length. A three does all of it. Tape the tentacles on from the back.

The cupcake liner jellyfish is even less: one liner, a glue stick, blue paper and a marker for the tentacles. Make a few and hang them in a row at the window so they look like they are floating.

For the letter J jellyfish, cut a J and a bowl of tissue squares. The child covers the letter, you poke the pom pom bell on top with eyes, and the wavy tentacles hang from the hook of the J. Say j, j, jellyfish as the tissue goes on.

The paper plate jack-o-lantern waits for October. Make it the week of J anyway if the child asks, and call it a jack-o-lantern out loud, j, j, every time.

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