Creative Ways of Writing Your Name in Preschool

When your child is preschool age, you want her to be recognizing and becoming more familiar with the alphabet, especially the letters of her name. While holding a pencil is still a tricky skill for her, she can write her name in a variety of ways as she learns her letters.

  1. Pasta

    • Write your child's name with large letters on a piece of paper. Give your child a variety of dry pasta such as macaroni, shell pasta, wheels and alphabet pasta and a shallow dish of glue. Have him put glue on the pasta and place it along the lines of the letters of his name. If you use alphabet pasta, have him find the letters that match his name within the alphabet pasta and encourage him to glue it to the corresponding letter of his name.
      After his name has dried, have him put a thin piece of paper over the top of it and shade with crayon, charcoal or chalk to make a rubbing of his pasta name. Your child might also enjoy simply tracing the pasta letters with his fingers.

    Prints

    • Have your child use fingerprints to trace her written name. Give your child a variety of finger paints and have her put her fingertips in the paint. Then she can do a succession of fingerprints along the lines of her name. Similarly, write her name on a large sheet of butcher paper or poster board. Have her put her feet or hands in paint and then trace her name with footprints or hand prints.

    Collage

    • Using old magazines, go through the pictures and headlines with your child. Have him find and cut out the letters of his name. Also have him find and cut out pictures of objects that start with each letter of his name. For instance, if your child's name is Nate, he could find a picture of a nose, a picture of an apple, a picture of a tree and a picture of an egg. Then have him glue the letters in the correct order to spell his name and have him glue the pictures in the correct order to spell his name.

    Sensory

    • Put some shaving cream or whipped cream in a shallow pan or cookie sheet. Have your child trace the letters of her name in the dish using her fingers. Use sand, salt, flour or paint for a different effect. When your child is in a bubble bath or helping you to do the dishes, have her write her name with her finger in the soap suds.

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