When a child is first learning to draw, he will often start by drawing family and home. The basic shape of a home is familiar, simple, and comforting for children. Your preschool child will make an H into a house while practicing its shape and sound in this uppercase letter H craft.
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I love how this house made from a letter h turned out! Letters become so much more memorable when we can associate something we love with the shape of the letter. That’s what makes our letter crafts so valuable for learning! Once you are finished making this one, you can make our lowercase letter h craft the next time you are ready for craft time.
The fun thing about this letter craft is that you are probably living in a home of some kind right now. You can do several simple extension activities to engage your child with the letter H around your own home. Extension activities connect different subjects to the same theme.
Get Outside and Look at Houses
Take a walk on your street or drive around a neighborhood and look at the different houses. Talk about which ones actually look like the letter h. Imagine the people who live in those houses and what they might be doing as you drive or walk past. This helps your child think beyond his own concrete world.
Use Your House as an Exercise Tool
Any time your child needs to get the wiggles out, try this fun exercise. Run around your house! Use your house as an exercise tool. If you live in a single family dwelling, you can run around the outside of your home. If you live in a multi-family dwelling or its a rainy day, make a lap or two inside your home and use any stairs to your advantage too!
Measure Your House
Use a ruler, yardstick, or tape measure and work together to measure your house. You can even use a standard sheet of paper, which is eleven inches in length, and get a pretty close measurement that way! You can measure the outside length, or get a pretty good estimate of the length by measuring across the home from the inside.
Clean Your House Together
Spend a little bit of time doing chores together and learning to take care of the home you have been blessed with. Children can do so much more than we have been taught to expect. This doesn’t need to be an elaborate time, just a simple fifteen or thirty minutes picking up toys, practicing how to sweep with a broom, or folding towels for the linen closet. Chore time teaches your child to be responsible and take care of his possessions. Working together teaches teamwork.
Read Letter H Books about Houses
I have a fantastic list of Letter H Books for Preschool with a nice selection of books about houses and homes. My favorite from the list is The Napping House by Audrey Wood. You are going to love it!
Get Ready for the Uppercase Letter H Craft
Before you begin making the craft, have a letter h scavenger hunt in your home or yard. Look for items in each room that begin with the letter h. You might find handles, hats, hot pads, or hand towels. If you have plastic animals in a toy collection look for horses or hens. Outside you might find hostas, hornets, hills, or even houses. If you have time, watch this letter h video.
Materials for the Uppercase Letter H Craft
This is a list of everything you will need to complete the craft. If you like, pull out the materials for craft time before you call your child to the table so that everything is ready. I like to set everything out while my kids are having a quiet time or nap time because it saves me a little bit of frustration getting it done ahead of time.
- yellow construction paper
- red construction paper
- purple construction paper
- construction paper for the background (color of choice)
- glue
- scissors
- alternative – white paper and crayons
Instructions for the Uppercase Letter H Craft
- Looking at the pieces above, draw the items your child will need to cut using a thick marker to make it easier for them. Then have your child follow these steps. Only help when absolutely necessary, because using scissors is very valuable for children.
- Cut out a large uppercase H from the yellow paper.
- Next, cut out a large triangle for a roof and 2 medium rectangles for doors from the red paper.
- Then cut out a small rectangle for a chimney, 8 small squares for windows and 2 small circles for door handles from the purple paper.
- Next glue down the H as close to the bottom of the paper as you can.
- Then glue down the chimney on the top left of the H.
- Next glue down the roof on the top of the H
- Then glue down the 2 doors in the middle bottom of the H.
- Next glue down the 2 door handles onto the doors.
- Finally glue down the 8 small squares for windows, 4 on each side.
