Valentine's Day Name Craft Crown

This free Valentine’s Day name craft crown is the perfect addition to your literacy centers and Valentine’s Day activities. Your students will be able to make their own Valentine monster crown with their name on. In this blog post you’ll find a link to a free download for this resource as well as instructions for how to use it.

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The Benefits of Name Crafts with Students

Name crafts are a fun and engaging way to help your students develop important skills while also encouraging creativity and confidence. These activities combine art and literacy, making them a great tool for your Valentine’s Day activities. Here are some of the benefits;

Builds name recognition: For our students, learning to recognize and spell their names is an essential milestone in early literacy. Name crafts help reinforce name recognition by giving students repeated exposure to the letters in their names in a fun and hands-on way
Supports Letter Recognition and Formation: This activity improves letter recognition and helps children practice the fine motor skills needed for letter formation. The hands-on aspect of cutting, gluing, or assembling makes learning letters more engaging and tactile.
Enhances Fine Motor Skills: By cutting, gluing, coloring, or manipulating small pieces, students strengthen their fine motor skills. These activities build hand-eye coordination and prepare students for tasks like writing, buttoning, and tying shoes.
Boosts Confidence and Independence: Completing a name craft gives students a sense of pride and accomplishment. Seeing their name displayed in a creative way reinforces their identity and individuality, building self-confidence.
Promotes Creativity: Name crafts allow students to explore their artistic side while learning.
Provides Cross-Curricular Learning Opportunities: Name crafts can easily be integrated into various subjects. For example; Literacy: Use them as part of letter recognition or phonics lessons. Math: Count the letters in each name or compare whose name has more or fewer letters. Art: Encourage students to use a variety of colors and materials for creative expression.

Instructions

Follow the instructions below to re-create this Valentine’s name craft with your students;

Open this PDF in Adobe Reader. – This step is really important to ensure that the fonts and text styling all remain correct. You will get errors if you try to open in preview or online.
Click the middle of the crown banner on page 3 to type in your student’s name if you want them to overwrite their name instead of spelling with hearts.
Click the middle of each heart on pages 5-7 to type in a letter of each student’s name.
Print out the pages. Cut out each of the individual craft pieces.
Students need to overwrite their name on the hearts, color them in and then stick them onto the crown underneath the love monster.
Measure student’s heads and use the crown extenders (page 4) to create the crown and staple together.

Where to Download

You can download this craft for free in my free resource library. You can log in here if you are a previous member. If you aren’t a member of my free resource library yet, just sign up here (FREE!).