Fun Letter F Crafts & Activities for Preschoolers
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Explore the letter F with hands-on crafts and activities designed to make learning the alphabet feel like play.
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Craft activities are a wonderful way to activate children’s creativity and help them learn new things–like the shapes and sounds of each letter in the alphabet. These simple craft ideas use common household materials to help teach the letter F and can be completed in just a few minutes. Although the activities are tailored for preschoolers, it’s a good idea for an adult to be present to assist as needed.
Some of these letter F crafts and activities require the outline of a letter F. You can draw one yourself or find one in our free printable collection of letter F worksheets.
1. F is for Fork
Who knew forks added fantastic features to art?!!
Required Materials
- paint
- paper plate
- paper
- disposable fork
How To
Print out or draw the outline of the letter F onto a sheet of card stock. Squirt several different colors of paint onto a paper plate, then give your child a disposable fork. Have them dip the back side of the fork’s prongs into the paint and then stamp the prongs onto the card stock, filling in the letter F outline.
Repeat with different colors, switching the direction of the prongs. Observe how the colors overlap to create patterns.
2. F is for Foil
You can choose to use crumbled or flat pieces of foil in this letter F creation.
Required Materials
- construction paper
- scissors
- aluminum foil
- liquid craft glue
How To
Print out or draw the outline of the letter F onto a sheet of thick paper or card stock. Trim out the letter F from the paper. Next, tear off 1-to-2-inch strips of aluminum foil and have your child cut or tear them into smaller pieces or squish them into balls. Now arrange the foil balls or pieces onto the letter F and glue them in place.
3. F is for Felt Flamingo
You can also use felt to create a ferret, frog, fox, or feline.
Required Materials
- felt pieces
- scissors
- marker
- glue
- paper
- fabric glue
How To
Have kids cut felt into squares, then help them trim the squares into leaf shapes. You will need one large leaf shape for the flamingo’s body and two smaller leaf shapes for its feathers.
Use a black marker to draw an oval-shaped body, long neck, eye, and beak with a black marker onto a white sheet of card stock. Glue the felt pieces over the oval shape you drew, creating a pink felt body for the flamingo. Finally, draw in scrawny legs to complete the flamingo!
Tip: Keep it even easier by exploring the letter F with our free printable flamingo coloring pages.
4. Find the Fs
This activity feels like magic, as children watch the letter F appear right before their eyes.
Required Materials
- thick white paper
- white crayon
- water color paint
How To
Use a white crayon to write uppercase and lowercase letter Fs onto a sheet of white card stock or thick paper. These Fs will not be visible…yet!
Have your child use watercolors to paint all over the paper. The watercolor paint won’t be absorb wherever the crayon marks are, thus magically revealing the letter Fs you wrote onto the page.
5. F is for Fire
This paper fire depicts the cozy warmth of bonfires or the flickering flames of the fireplace.
Required Materials
- red, orange, yellow, and white paper
- glue
- scissors
How To
Starting with the white paper, cut out a smaller-sized white flame of fire. Feel free to draw the flame first with a pencil before cutting it out. Repeat this process with the yellow, orange and red paper, making the fire shape larger each time. Layer each of the flames on top of each other, with the largest flame on the bottom. Then glue them together.
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6. F is for Flower
Simple pom poms give these flowers texture and a 3D effect.
Required Materials
- small pom poms
- paper
- liquid glue
- marker
How To
Begin by drawing several stems with leaves onto a white sheet of paper. Set out several different colors of small pom poms and have your child use them to assemble a flower on top of each stem. Once your child is happy with their flower, work with them to glue the pom poms down.
Tip: Extend learning by heading outdoors in search of flowers, noticing how they compare to the flowers you and your child created.
7. F is for Finger-Painted Fish
Finger painting is not only fun, it’s also a sensory experience as children experiment with the wet, slimy, or sticky feel of the paint and dabbing or wiping it onto dry paper.
Required Materials
- nontoxic acrylic paint
- paper
- marker
How To
Use a pencil or marker to draw the outline of a simple fish onto a thick white piece of paper. Then, add several colors of paint to a paper plate or paint dish. A nontoxic acrylic craft paint is recommended for this activity.
Have your child press a finger into one of the paint colors, then onto the paper, leaving behind a colorful fish scale. Repeat with a variety of different colors and fingers to create fun fingerprint fish art!
Tip: Try this activity with our free printable fish coloring pages or simply use them as another F-themed coloring activity.
8. F is for Family Features
This activity focuses on drawing the basic features of your family.
Required Materials
- paper
- marker, crayons, or colored pencils
- a photo of your family
How To
This easy craft puts the focus on family, as children use a photo to guide their efforts of drawing a family portrait. If family members are willing, they can even attempt acting as live models for the drawing…if they can sit still long enough!
9. F is for Feathers
Add fine and fluffy texture to the letter F with feathers from the craft store.
Required Materials
- paper
- feathers
- scissors
- liquid glue
How To
Using a scissors, trim out the letter F from a piece of construction paper. Next, layer feathers on top of the letter F to fill it in as much as possible. You may need to trim some of your feathers to make them fit. Glue your feathers down using a liquid adhesive.
10. F is for Frog
Construction paper and googly eyes are all that’s needed to create this fantastic and friendly frog.
Required Materials
- paper
- scissors
- glue
- pencil
- googly eyes
How To
Use a pencil to draw the outline of a frog, which is essentially an oval body with two smaller and longer ovals on either side (for the legs), and a rounded triangular shape for the head. Draw a smaller oval in the middle for the frog’s yellow tummy, add in webbed feet at the bottom of its legs, and create a smiling face.
After drawing the outline of your frog, snip it out of the construction paper. You can also simply draw it onto white paper for your child to color in.
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The ideas, pictures, and copy for this post were provided by Smitha Katti from smilingcolors.com
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