Alphabet knowledge is vital to children’s later reading skills and overall school success. But this fact shouldn’t intimidate nor stress you as a parent or teacher! Preschool is the age where kids benefit the most from hands-on learning, therefore incorporating crafts and activities is one excellent way to help them with letter recognition and sound association.
In this article, we will be covering some of the best crafts and activities centered on the letter Hh that are sure to make your little ones happy and hungry to learn more!
Great Letter H Preschool Crafts and Activities
Our selection of the best letter H preschool crafts and activities varies from simple indoor projects to outdoor plays, but all are equally fun and engaging! Read on and you can definitely find one or two ideas to add to your letter H curriculum.
Before kids even begin putting pen to paper, it is important that they spend time developing and strengthening their fine motor skills in order to have proper pencil grasp and control. This printable playdough mat conveniently provides an opportunity to do so!
Focusing on the letter Hh, the activity allows kids to shape the target letter in both uppercase and lowercase forms with playdough. After some fun rolling and molding time, kids move on to tracing the letters multiple times—building confidence to finally write the letters independently on the last section of the page.
Doing this activity repeatedly improves children’s ability to control writing tools and increases their letter recognition. Watch as in no time, they will be able to recognize the letter Hh at a glance and write it with ease!
For this activity, you’ll only need:
- Playdough
- Writing utensils
- Printed Letter Hh Playdough Mat from EducationOutside
- Plastic sleeves (optional but recommended for repeated use)
Letter recognition and sound association are fundamental in kids’ later reading success and they can gain both from working on this letter craft! In this easy-to-follow activity, kids get to turn the uppercase letter H into a house, reinforcing its beginning sound.
To do this, you’ll need:
- Letter H printable pattern
- Construction paper (white and other preferred colors)
- Glue stick
- Markers
Begin by either printing out or drawing a letter H outline on colored construction paper. Cut it out and have kids glue it onto the white paper, leaving a space on top for the roof. Add a door in between or on either leg of the letter H, and windows cut out from paper. From there, let kids exercise their problem-solving skills and creativity in detailing their letter H houses however they like.
For tips and picture guides, check out CrystalAndComp.
This set of uppercase and lowercase letter Hh do-a-dot pages is more than a simple letter formation and fine motor practice! EclecticHomeschooler offers eight equally fun and engaging versions of this activity page to suit different learning goals.
One way to use them is with classic dot markers that many kids love. Concentrating on daubing the dots helps them strengthen their hands and improve coordination. You can add in some coloring by giving them the black and white version of the activity page.
The other version works as a full worksheet. It includes a quick uppercase and lowercase letter tracing activity before kids move on to filling in the dots however they like—with dot markers again, just color, or fun stickers. Utilizing it this way teaches kids to work independently and sit still for a longer period.
If you want to focus on fine motor development next to letter recognition, then using this printable with various manipulatives is the way to go. You can choose any loose materials your little one enjoys such as pom poms, mini erasers, cubes, gems, or a mix of those to incorporate patterns.
For this versatile activity packed with skill-building opportunities, you’ll need the following:
- Dot markers
- Coloring utensils
- Manipulatives
- Stickers (optional)
- Letter H Do-a-Dot mat
Here’s another fun craft associating letters to something that will help kids remember its sound. This time, it’s an irresistible purple hippopotamus! Aside from reinforcing letter sound knowledge, working on this project allows kids to exercise their hand muscles through cutting and gluing.
For this, you’ll need:
- Letter H outline (printed or manually drawn)
- Purple, white, and red construction paper (or any color of your choice)
- 2 of small black pom poms
- 2 googly eyes
- Glue
- Scissors
Start with cutting out a letter H outline from your purple construction paper or any color you like your hippo to be. Glue it on white paper to give your craft a clean background. Next, work on the hippo head. Since this involves cutting curved lines, younger kids may need help from grown-ups. Once cut out, glue ONLY the head’s top part so it can be lifted. Attach the google eyes, pair of small pom poms for the nose, a red half circle glued on the letter H’s crossbar, and finally, a pair of charming white teeth next to it.
Over at KidsActivitiesBlog, they have precise instructions and a video guide you might want to check out.
In this letter H craft, the kids will retain not only their beginning sound knowledge but also the concept of hibernation! Hibernation to kids is not an easy topic to grasp and so requires activities and visual support, like this popsicle bear cave craft, to solidify their understanding.
To recreate this, gather the following materials:
- Jumbo popsicle sticks (3 per craft)
- Colored cardstock paper
- Glue
- Markers
- Scissors
- Embellishments like raffia, glitter, plastic leaves, twigs, branches
This is easy to follow and open to the kids’ creativity. First, have them glue three popsicle sticks forming an “H” in the center of black cardstock to build the main structure of the cave. Doing this helps encourage their muscle memory in making the uppercase letter H.
After that, they are ready to decorate their bear caves, adding details like sticks, leaves, raffia, or even cotton balls for snow to set a wintry scene. Finish it off by having them draw or find a photo of a sleeping bear to be glued onto the cave they made.
This amazing craft comes from the clever minds at GluedToMyCraftsBlog so be sure to check them out for more ideas!
6. Education Outside’s Lowercase Letter h Activity Mat
Practice the letter H four ways in one sitting with this printable activity mat. Not only kids will love this multi-activity sheet but you will too as it requires no preparation. All that is needed is to print the worksheet and have kids ready their writing or coloring utensils.
In the first half of the worksheet, kids get to see the letter H in lowercase form and then try copying and writing it. Next, working on their letter recognition, they have to identify and spot the target letter among other lowercase letters. In the last section, they can color in a picture of a thing that corresponds with the letter to help them remember the sound it makes.
You can add this to your letter of the week curriculum or get this for kids who need extra practice identifying their letter H. All you need to complete the mat is the following:
- Printable Letter h mat from EducationOutside
- Pencil and coloring utensils
Something to sweeten up your letter H practice is this hot chocolate sensory bin! You don’t have to wait for the winter season to engage your kids in this hands-on letter sorting activity. Also, all that you need you can just grab from your kitchen. But in case you need a run to the store, here’s the items list:
- Sensory bin
- Letter Hh printables
- Cocoa puffs
- Mini marshmallows
- Bowls and spoons
To prepare the activity, print out the sorting mats and marshmallow letters provided for free by ABCDeeLearning. Add in the cutout letter Hh marshmallows into the bin filled with cocoa puffs and real marshmallows. Hand kids a spoon and an empty bowl and let the scooping begin. Once they find all the paper marshmallows, ask them to sort the uppercase and lowercase forms of the letter H.
At the end of this sense-engaging activity, kids will be able to differentiate capital and small letter Hh, and celebrate the chocolatey taste of success!
H is for hedgehog that is super cute you wouldn’t want to craft just one, but instead an array! Beyond fine motor development kids can gain, working on this project helps them remember that hedgehog starts with the letter H, retaining the letter sound as well.
For this, all the supplies you’ll need are:
- White cardstock
- Crayons
- Paint (fall colors like yellow, orange, and brown)
- Fork
- Small pom pom
- Glue or glue stick
- Paper plateÂ
- Googly eye
Begin by drawing a simple hedgehog on your white cardstock using crayons. You can add a subtle pop of color to your hedgehog or leave it as an outline. Use the paper plate as a palette and pour a bit of each color onto it. Now, you may start painting by simply pressing the back side of your fork into the paint and stamping it all over the hedgehog’s body. Do keep an eye on and provide necessary assistance to younger kids while working with forks. Once vibrant and spiky enough, glue the pom pom for the nose and of course, the googly eye.
For more preschool craft inspiration, click over to ToddlerAtPlay.
Incorporating crafts to encourage letter learning is sure to help kids soar to mastery! This easy hot air balloon craft is perfect for kids who love to finish projects themselves or do at least most of the parts. Although it perfectly suits springtime, you can work on this any time of the year, especially when your child needs some letter H sound reinforcement.
To get started, prepare the following:
- Blue, white, and brown cardstock paper
- Regular-sized cupcake liner (any color or pattern)
- White string
- Scissors
- Markers
- Glue
Cut some clouds out of your white cardstock paper and glue them onto the blue cardstock that will frame your craft. Depending on your little one’s scissors control, you may help them a bit with cutting curved lines. Moving on to the brown cardstock, cut a square and glue it to the bottom of the blue paper. Glue on two short pieces of white strings from the corners of the square up, then add the cupcake liner at the top. Finally, you can either draw a person inside the hot air balloon or leave it empty conquering the blue sky.
Over at iHeartCraftyThings, they have precise instructions to help you put this together easier.
They say the best way to learn is to have fun, and so we say hooray for hopscotch! Aside from associating the name of the game to the letter H, actually playing hopscotch benefits kids in numerous ways such as gross motor skills development—which is just as vital as fine motor, helps with problem-solving, and relationship building.
Also, this activity won’t cost you too much time and money to prepare as you will only need:
- Chalk
- Safe area to play
- and playmates!
Since the goal is to reinforce letter knowledge, you can add an alphabetical twist to the game by using letters instead of numbers. This way allows you to quickly assess your child for letter recognition.
HubPages offers more ideas for teaching the letter so be sure to read over the blog!
Conclusion
Being able to memorize and sing the ABC song, although a good start, is not enough. For preschoolers to grasp their alphabet—in this case focusing on the letter H—it is best to use methods that engage different senses such as the featured list of crafts and activities.
We hope that these letter Hh crafts and activities help you engage your preschooler in some fun and stress-free letter recognition practice. Visit us again soon for more!
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