Free preschool lesson plans for learning Letter H through writing practice, books, crafts, songs, STEM, and fun! Each day brings new letter H activities and incorporates fun into your little one’s learning. Get ready for hair, hugs, hippos, and hedgehogs!
Monday — H is for Hair
- Writing Practice: write uppercase H. Here is a free, printable writing practice worksheet: Capital Letter H
- Book: Stella’s Stellar Hair by Yesenia Moises — this book is awesome! Stella is a little girl who wants a special hair style for a the Big Star Little Gala. She takes a trip around the solar system, visiting her aunties to get hair style help. However, none of these styles are right for her. Stella finally finds a style that’s just right for her by incorporating her hair’s unique traits with suggestions from all of her aunties. This book has out-of-this-world pictures and great message of embracing who you are because you are special, unique, and wonderful just the way you are.
This book was released in 2021, and gained a lot of positive feedback. Hopefully your library has it (I bought 2 copies for mine). If you can’t find it at your library, you can purchase it on Amazon here.
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- Craft: Rainbow Hair — this is a great project for fine motor skills as preschoolers have to manipulate the pipe cleaners. Supplies needed are cardboard, scissors, hole punch, googly eyes, a marker, and rainbow colored pipe cleaners. I recommend using cardboard because it is sturdy and won’t rip when you are securing the pipe cleaners. If you need pipe cleaners, there’s a rainbow set on Amazon that also comes with googly eyes.
Cut a circle out of cardboard to make a face. Punch 6 holes near the top of the circle.
Next, thread a pipe cleaner through each hole, wrapping one end up and around the top of the cardboard and around the base of the pipe cleaner to secure it to the face.
Now you get to style your pipe cleaners!
Once you are happy with your rainbow hair, add googly eyes and draw on a happy smile!
- Song: Sing along with Sesame Street to I Love My Hair. Watch it on Youtube.
Tuesday —
- STEM: Bead Counting and Sorting — this is so fun, that kids don’t even realize they gaining math skills! Try sorting plastic beads by color and then counting how many of each color you have. If your beads are different sizes or shapes, sort by size and shape. Count how many beads you have altogether. Add and subtract beads, and make color sequencing designs. Work on fine motor skills by stringing beads onto pipe cleaners.
- Air Writing: Ask your child to hold up a hand and trace letter shapes with their finger in the air.
Wednesday — H is for Hug
- Writing Practice: write lowercase letter h. Here is a free, printable PDF from AtoZteacherstuff: lowercase h
- Book: The Hug Machine by Scott Campbell. My coworker gave this book to my son and oh my gosh does he love it! This story is about a little boy who calls himself the Hug Machine because he loves, loves, loves to give hugs. He hugs everyone and everything, including porcupines and blue whales. This book is full of humor and heart and ends with a special hug just for the Hug Machine.
Check your library for this sweet story, or you can buy it on Amazon here.
- Craft: Paper Hug — I LOVE this craft! It’s my son’s actual arm & handprints! I hung this in my office so I could always have a hug 🙂
Supplies needed are 3 different colors of construction paper, scissors, pencil, and glue.
I asked my son to lay his hands and arms across the blue paper and I traced their outlines. Then I cut them out. Next, I cut out a heart shape.
My son glued the heart to the middle of the yellow paper. Next he glued one hand on the heart, with the arm at a downward facing angle. Then glued the arm down. The blue arm paper is longer than the yellow paper, so fold it and glue it to the back of the yellow sheet. This makes it look like the arm is wrapping around, giving a hug.
He glued the second hand slightly on top of the first hand and glued down the arm portion. Like the first arm, he had to fold it and finish gluing it to the back of the yellow paper.
Once it’s dry, you have this awesome hug to take to work, or mail to a family member.
- Song: Sing If You’re Happy and You Know It 🙂 With my preschool storytime group, I like to get them up and moving, so I try and incorporate a lot of movement into songs. So for If You’re Happy and You Know It, we sing:
Clap your hands
Stomp your feet
Jump and up down
and do all 3 (clap, stomp, jump)
Thursday — H is for Hippo
- Salt Tray Writing: Cover the bottom of a shallow tray or pie tin with table salt. Your child can take one finger to trace letter shapes in the salt.
- Worksheet: Color all of the hearts with letter H. Click on the link to get your free, printable Letter H recognition worksheet that I made for my child.
- Books: H is also for Hippo, so we read a couple of hippo books: Here Comes Firefighter Hippo by Jonathan London and The Hiccupotamus by Aaron Zenz.
We love Jonathan London’s Froggy series so we decided to give Firefighter Hippo a chance. This is a cute story about a little hippo who pretends to be a firefighter. My son loves to pretend to be a firefighter so this book really resonated with him. Little Hippo sets off on an adventure in his pedal-powered firetruck, running into some difficulties along the way. Bright illustrations add to the enjoyment of this story.
The Hiccupotamus is a silly tongue-twisting tale of a hippo that comes down with the hiccups. Its hiccups are so bad that the hippo disrupts all of the animals around him. The animals get together and decide that something must be done to cure hippo of the hiccups. Each attempt at a cure is hilarious and the rhyming, tongue twisters adds to giggles. Your preschooler will laugh their way through this book!
Friday — H is for Hedgehog
- Writing Practice: write uppercase and lowercase H h. I found a great worksheet at K5 Learning that is free to print: https://www.k5learning.com/worksheets/kindergarten/tracing-letters-h.pdf
- Books: Hedgie’s Surprise by Jan Brett. I love Jan Brett’s storytelling and illustrations. Hedgie the hedgehog appears in a few stories, but in this one, he gets to take center stage. Hedgie saves the day by cleverly putting a stop to an egg thief so that his chicken friend can hatch a baby chick.
I love hedgehogs, so we had to read more than one hedgehog story! We also read Hedgehugs by Steve Wilson. Are you ready to meet Horace and Hattie, two of the cutest hedgehogs ever!?! These two hedgehogs are best friends and love to do things together. In fact, they pretty much do everything together except hug. How are two spiky hedgehogs supposed to be able to hug each other? The two friends try all sorts of different ways (cue preschooler giggles), but nothing is working. Then, they stumble upon some laundry drying in the sun and get the best idea! Brace yourself for a super cute hug. Horace and Hattie have more adorable adventures, so be sure to check your library for the others in this series.
- Craft: Paper Plate Hedgehog — scissor skills and painting make this craft a lot of fun for preschoolers. Supplies needed are 1 paper plate, pencil, scissors, watercolor paints, paintbrush, and scissors.
First I cut a paper plate in half and discarded one of the pieces.
Then I drew a basic hedgehog face shape with a sloping forehead and a long, pointy nose, and cut off the excess plate.
My son used his watercolor paints to make a blue hedgehog.
The watercolor paints dry pretty quickly, so he didn’t have to wait long to makes cuts along the top of his plate and make hedgehog quills.
After he made all of the cuts, we gently pulled the quills apart to give them a spiky look. My son added googly eyes to complete his craft.
He was so proud of this craft and I took pictures of him holding his project and texted them to his grandparents.
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