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Explain to your child that you’ll be making a stamp of their hand, and you’ll need to apply paint to their palm and fingers. If they haven’t touched paint before, help them understand that it will be cool and wet and it may tickle when you brush it on.

Have your child pick one or several colors of paint for their handprint art and where they would like the colors to appear. Apply the paint to your child’s hand, then have them press their palm and fingers onto a white sheet of paper.

Wiggle their hand and press down firmly to get a good imprint. Carefully lift their hand to reveal their hand print!

Tip: This makes a great piece of memorabilia that can be used as cards or gifts for grandparents and other family members.

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Print out or draw the outline of the letter H onto a sheet of white paper. Have your child use safety scissors to help trim pieces of tissue paper into smaller squares.

Next, have your child paint water in a small section of their letter H and immediately place pieces of tissue paper on top of it. Do this with several pieces of tissue paper. Carefully paint water over the tissue paper to smooth it out. You and your child will start to see the colors of the tissue paper slowly run into each other, creating a unique effect.

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For this activity, write the numbers1 through 5 on one side of the paper. On the other side of the paper, draw hearts in groups of 1 through 5. Then, have your child count the hearts in each group and match the numbers they see to the corresponding group of hearts.

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Print or draw the outline of a lowercase letter H onto a sheet of brown construction paper and cut it out. From the same sheet of paper, trim out two small pointy ears and a semi-circle for the horse’s nose. From the black construction paper, cut out two semi-circles for hooves, a tail, and a mane.

Set the letter H horse shape and all of its parts out for your child, and work with them to glue them on. Feel free to have fun with it, and cut out a lime green mane and bright purple tail. Then, glue on or draw in an eye, nose, and mouth.

Tip: Keep the letter H learning going by challenging your child to tell a story about their horse using as many letter H words as possible.

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Draw or print out the outline of a letter H. Fill a paper plate with small blobs of paint and give your child a few small squares of bubble wrap. Ask them to gently press their bubble wrap into the paint (a few colors at once if they want) and then press their bubble wrap onto their letter H. Repeat this process until the H is filled with multicolor dots.

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Draw a simple face outline onto a sheet of paper. Ask your child to help draw in the ears, nose, and mouth and glue on (or draw in) the eyes.

Next, work with your child to cut pieces of yarn to create a hairstyle for their person, trimming it into long or short pieces. Then, glue the pieces in place, creating hair standing straight up, hair that’s long and straight, or hair that extra curly!

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Help your child tap into their inner architect with this H-themed activity. Snip out several rectangles in different colors so your child can choose which one they want for their house. Then snip out a triangular roof, square windows, and a rectangular door.

Have your child use these pieces to assemble their house and glue the pieces into place. Then work on adding details, like the grid on the windows, a doorknob, grass, cloud, and trees.

Tip: While snipping out house sections for your child to build with is extra fun, you can just as easily work with your child to draw a house too.

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For this letter craft, children use pipe cleaners to form the shape of an uppercase and lowercase letter H. You will need one pipe cleaner for each letter. This activity is a bit of a puzzle too, as children figure out how to create the letter H shape with just one pipe cleaner.

Tip: Write or print out examples of the letter H to help guide your child’s efforts.

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Create a grid with letters of the alphabet on top and a dot or blank space below. Challenge your child to use the hole punch to put a hole under all the uppercase letter Hs they see. This activity works for any letter of the alphabet.

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Choose one color of construction paper to create the hippo’s body, legs, face, and ears. Pick another color of construction paper for the hippo’s snout and tail. Depending on your child’s cutting skills, invite them to cut these section out or you can do it for them.

After cutting out all the pieces needed for the hippo, it’s time to work with your child to assemble it and glue the pieces down. Then, discuss what this hungry hippo may want to eat, trying to name as many foods that start with the letter H as possible.