Kindergarten Activities on the Letter H

Alphabet Lesson Plan for Toddlers, Preschoolers, and Kindergarteners

Aug 31, 2009

Parents and teachers can use these letter H activities to encourage school readiness or supplement a lesson plan on the letter H. Alphabet learning with crafts and games.

Learning the alphabet is the most essential pre-reading skill for toddlers, pre-K, and kindergarten. However, it's always a challenge to make the lesson plan exciting and fun. These letter games, crafts, and activities can help teachers and parents in teaching the letter H to kids.

Strategy for Teaching the Letter H Sound

Ask the children to imagine that the letter H is a dog. (It may help younger children to visualize if the teacher draws a silly picture of letter H as a dog.) What do dogs do when they're hot? If appropriate, have a short discussion about why dogs pant in hot weather.

Demonstrate how a dog pants for the class, exaggerating the "H" sound. Have the class repeat the motion. Throughout the rest of the letter H lesson plan, periodically pause to ask the class, what does letter H say when he's hot? Teach the class to pant in response and answer "h, h, h!"

Practicing Fine Motor Skills and Teaching Letter H With Hand Outlines

Teaching the letter H with hand outlines is a great way to encourage fine motor skills while learning about the ABCs. Toddlers and preschoolers will need substantial help to outline their own hand, but kindergarteners should be able to do it with minimal assistance and could practice cutting out the outline with safety scissors. When they're finished, number each finger and label the hand(s) with a letter H.

Teaching the Alphabet With a Hopping Collage

Hand out a stack of animal coloring pages to each child, ask them to select the ones that hop. Color the ones they've selected and glue them to a large sheet of posterboard to create a hopping collage. Decorate the word "Hop" at the top of the collage.

After kids have finished, they will probably enjoy reading a book like Who Hops? by Katie Davis [Harcourt Brace: 1998.] This silly book will make them roar with laughter, plus it's a great review of all they've just learned about animals while making their collages. Kids can also be encouraged to point out the letter H when they see it on the page.

Alphabet Crafts for Children: Hatching Eggs

An easy letter H craft using common classroom art supplies is a hatching egg. Emphasize that hatch begins with the letter H, and lots of animals hatch from eggs. Name some as a class: birds, turtles, snakes, dinosaurs, frogs, and fish.

Provide pictures of some of the animals discussed above and let each child choose his or her favorite. Hand out a template like the one below (click image to see it larger – make sure the egg halves are slightly elongated and overlap by about 1/2") and have kids cut the shapes out with safety scissors. Glue the animal to the whole egg. Place the half eggs over the top, lining up the Xs, and secure them at the X with a brad.

Movement and Physical Activity Games Teaching Letter H

The number of physically active games involving hula hoops are endless. Aside from hula hooping, children can:

Getting creative with hula hoops is a fun way to burn off physical energy, develop gross motor skills, and develop awareness of everyday objects that begin with the letter H.

Fun and creative letter H activities for kindergarten and pre-K are a great way to get kids fired up about the alphabet. Incorporate them into an ABC lesson plan or try them out as a rainy day activity with kids at home.'

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