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Toddler Crafts Letter Craft series continues!!  Today is the letter H day.  This is a really simple craft that is fun to create.  When creating a letter craft a fun idea is to make it the letter of the day!  Point out all things that start with that letter through out the day.  You can also make the letter and keep it in the car and as you go through your day point it out and ask, what letter is that?  If you see a hat or house etc you can point out “look at that house, house starts with the letter H!  Do you here the H sound?”  This will reinforce the letter as you do this.

Supplies:

• Green construction paper
• Scissors
• Marker
• Fluffy ball
• Glitter
• Glue

Steps:

1. Draw hat shape
2. Cut out hat
3. Write H is for hat on the Hat
4. Put glue on hat and add fluffy ball
5. Put glue over letter H and add glitter

Have Fun!!

This is another fun and simple letter craft in the Toddler Crafts Letter Craft series!  This one is for the letter P and just in time for Halloween too!  When creating the craft emphasize with your child the letter sound for P as you say Pumpkin and point it out on the craft.  You can add glue to the letter P and put on some glitter which then reinforces the shape of the letter.  It is helpful for children to run their finger over the texture of a letter, and the glitter helps facilitate that.

Supplies:

• Black, Orange and green construction paper
• Marker
• Scissors
• Glue
• Glitter (optional)

Steps:

1. Draw pumpkin shape on orange paper
2. Cut out pumpkin
3. Draw stem on green paper
4. Cut out stem
5. Glue pumpkin and stem on black paper
6. Write P is for Pumpkin with marker on pumpkin
7. Put glue over P and shake glitter on it.

Have fun!!

Reinforcing Letters with a craft is very effective for helping kids learn their letters.  This craft focuses on the letter J, with each Jewel they put on the crown, ask them what it is,  and what the J sound is in the word Jewel.  If they don’t know, explain what the letter sound is in the word Jewel and help them remember with each Jewel they place on the crown.

Supplies:

• Construction Paper
• Marker
• Glue
• Scissor
• Jewels

Steps:

1. Draw Crown outline
2. Cut out Crown
3. Glue Jewels on crown
4. Right the letter J then is for Jewel below it.
5. Put Glue on J and add glitter on it.  (optional)

Having the texture on the J is helpful since kids can feel it and it reinforces the shape of the letter.  Have your child help you read the sentance once it is written.

Activities for Preschoolers

There are many fun Activities for preschoolers that you can create very simply.  There is always the opportunity for reinforcing learning when creating a Preschool Craft.  This O for Octopus craft is very easy and fun.  You can reinforce the letter “O” as you make your Oscar the Octopus.

Supplies:

• Construction Paper
• Scissors
• Glue/Glue Stick
• Googly eyes
• Crayon or Marker
• Circle lid or container

Steps:

1. Get Circle lid or container and have your child (or you, depending on age) Trace a circle around it.
2. Draw Legs (8) for Octopus
3. Cut out legs and circle
4. Use Blue consturction paper and place circle in middle and glue legs below circle
5. Glue Circle on Paper
6. Add Googly eyes and glue them on circle
7. Draw nose and mouth
8. Write the Word Octopus on top, pointing out the letter O and the circle on the octopus and Octopus’s eyes that are circles like the letter O.

Preschool Educational Activities

To teach children their letters it is important to introduce the letters in a variety of ways.  One fun way is to make a craft that starts with the “letter of the day”.  Then incorporate as many items that start with that letter.  This letter activity craft is a great example of that.  You could even read a book before like the “itsy bitsy spider” and point out the S’s as you read.  In this activity we concentrate on the letter S.  We called this spider, Salty the Spider.  We made his S out of salt (the s again ) and wrote the word spider on him for another opportunity to reinforce the letter and it’s sound.

Supplies:

• Construction paper
• Pencil or Pen
• Scissors
• Black Marker
• Glue
• Salt

Steps:

1. Draw outline of Spider
2. Help children cut it out with Scissors (see the letter S again? point out the letter it starts with.)
3. Draw eyes on spider
4. Draw the S with Glue
5. Sprinkle Salt (there’s that S again!) on the glue, shake off excess
6. Write Spider on the bottom

Sing the Itsy Bitsy Spider!