Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Preschool: Decorated Names

When learning to write our names in preschool, I think it is important to take into consideration that you can learn how to write it with more than just a crayon or pencil. So when I begin to teach the kiddos how to write their name, I do this project with them. Now if you have 27 students like me, then this can take a good bit of prep time. To figure out how many of each letter I needed, I typed each child's name into a Word (or in my case, Pages) document. I type all names in CAPS, one name per line. Like this:
SARAH
KRISTY
JUSTIN
GRACE
BENJAMIN
etc.  Then I start going through the alphabet and deleting each letter as I counted them. So after counting the As, it would look like this.
S R H
KRISTY
JUSTIN
GR C E
BENJAMIN
Note how many of each letter you need. Cut them out on a die cutter in various colors, glue them onto sheets of paper. I had to use masking tape to make my sheets long enough.

Provide the kids with glue and a tray of glitter, tissue paper, colored sand, colored rice, pasta, etc and let them decorate their names.



Touch, Feely Names! :)

4 comments:

  1. I'm sure the kids love seeing their names and art on the wall. Fun activity.

    Veronica

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  2. Great and so fun for the kids to learn!

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  3. I've got to do this with my kid :) She would love it!!! Thanks so much for sharing this with us at Sharing Saturday.

    ~MiaB
    www.mamamiasheart2heart.com

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