i is for indian - Character Letter Craft

I scoured the web for a short i sound shaped like a lower case i. Too many variables led to too few search results... until Alligators All Around by Maurice Sendak inspired m:

Yes!! "i" is for indian..."ih" "ih" indian!
I freehand cut all my letters and post pictures for ideas NOT patterns. I'm sure the more creative individual could do something far more attractive with this idea but here goes:

I'm big into starting with the original letter shape.
You could save a lot of pasting if this is not one of your goals.

Keep in mind my 3 year old pastes the character letters with a glue stick so some of the aesthetic magic is lost:

In the end I got what I wanted. A character lower case i letter craft for the short sound "ih"