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House or Home Paper Craft · Shapes Practice Preschool Printable Activity

Materials:

• printer
• paper
• coloring tools for B&W template
• scissors
• glue stick
• Additional materials suggested below

This activity will help children learn shapes, colors and how shapes create things. Present or reinforce letter H is for House or Home.

You can also focus on other themes such as: My Home, a season, weather conditions or a holiday event, such a winter holiday or other special holiday your family celebrates to portray in the house scene.

Craft Instructions:

• Print templates of your choice and positioning guide. The B&W version allows for more creativity for older children to decorate the shape pieces separately with a variety of materials, then cut out and glue to the house positioning guide.
• Suggestion: Print positioning template on light blue paper for a blue sky background.
• Color if applicable.
• Cut out the house shapes. Adult assistance may be needed.
• Learning activities: Identify colors and shapes on the templates.
• Apply glue to the positioning guide, pasting larger pieces first.
  • Paste large house square.
  • Paste large triangle roof.
  • Paste window squares.
  • Paste door rectangle.
  • Paste brown squares
  • Paste tree triangles
  • Paste cloud.

Ideas for extended learning:

Seasons and Weather: Decide on what season and weather conditions you would like to portray for the house scene. Select materials, colors and textures based on your scene choice.

Holidays: Make use of small stickers to add interest to the scene too emphasize a holiday.

Set wooden blocks or Lego blocks for children to make houses.

Templates:

• Close template window after printing to return to this screen.
• Set page margins to zero (minimum) if you have trouble fitting the template on one page or review Print Help.

House or Home Craft    color    or    B&W

Positioning Guide

Complimentary Activities:

Alphabet > Letter Hh is for House printable activities for various age levels

Picture Book Activity: The Shape of Things - read-aloud video

Homes -- Shapes >