Today I’m sharing some editable name crafts for kids. This blog post is full of different craft activities that you can use with your students to work on their name recognition and spelling skills. There are also some free downloads included for you below to use with your students too.
I have a lot of students who struggle with their name recognition and spelling skills.. So I do lots of name crafts all year long with my students.
Why Work on Name Crafts?
- Encourages creativity and self-expression
- Enhances fine motor skills through cutting and gluing
- Promotes individuality and self-identity
- Improves literacy by recognizing and spelling their own names
- Fosters a sense of belonging and community
- Supports social skills through sharing and collaboration
- Provides a fun and engaging learning activity
- Helps teachers learn students’ names quickly
- Boosts confidence and self-esteem
- Integrates art into the curriculum
Haunted House Name Craft
This haunted house craft always goes down really with my students around Halloween. A lot of my students like to get extra creative and decorate their haunted houses as well.
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Apple Name Craft
This craft is a fun addition to your fall activities. I like to make a big tree up on the wall and fill it with the apples of everyone’s names. Then I have my students go up to the tree and ‘pick the apples’ that will spell their name. It’s a fun way to add in some extra letter recognition work.
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Squirrel and Acorn Name Craft
My students love finding the letter acorns to feed to the squirrel.. And the end result is this super cute craft where students are once again getting to work on their name recognition and spelling skills.
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Flower Name Craft
I love using this craft as part of our Valentine’s Day activities. We use green pipe cleaners to attach the flowers to the vase and it turns out such a sweet end craft.
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Snow Cloud Name Craft
This craft is perfect for working on those all important fine motor skills too! Students not only need to spell out their own name and overwrite it.. But they will also use hole punchers to punch holes into the snowballs and bottom of the cloud.. Then students thread string or ribbon to attach the snowballs to the snowcloud.
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Rudolph Name Craft
I love to make crafts for different seasons and holidays throughout the year. This one is a fun one to use at Christmas and my students love feeding their carrots to Rudolph.
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Editable Snowflake Name Craft
This craft is perfect to use throughout the winter. I love to chat to my students about catching snowflakes, and we’ll put out some of my Zimpli Kids snow in a sensory bin. We finish up by completing this craft and catching our snowflake name in the mitten.
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Editable Scarecrow Name Craft
Another craft that I love to use throughout Fall is this scarecrow and pumpkin name craft. I like to try and pair it with some picture books about scarecrow and pumpkins and finish up with this activity.
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Free Editable Bug Craft
This is a free download here. Students use the different letters to build the bug.
Free School Bus Name Craft
Download this craft for free here. This is the perfect back to school craft.. And we love putting them up on display in our hallway once they are finished.
Free Gingerbread House Name Craft
We use this craft as part of our Gingerbread week activities. Students will use the gumdrops to spell out their name on top of the Gingerbread House. Get it here.
Free Penguin Name Craft
Get it here. We love penguins and this is another great activity to do throughout the winter.
Free Elf Hat Name Craft
We love making these elf hats at Christmas time. Once they’re finished, we wear them to our Christmas lunch together. Get it free here.
Free Turkey Hat Name Craft
This one is a great craft to use as part of your Thanksgiving activities. Get it free here.
Free Fire Truck Name Craft
This craft we usually do during our fire safety week. As part of fire safety week we love to go to the local fire station to visit the firefighters and learn more about the work that they do. This name craft is always a nice finishing off activity to the day. Get it free here.
You can get all of my editable name crafts here.
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Nikki
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