My Name!

My Name

Projects/Learning Activities

Name Train

Skills:  name recognition and forming

pasting, counting, square identification, following directions

Print and cut out a train engine (or draw one!)

Cut out different colored construction squares for the boxcars.

Cut a 9x13 piece of construction paper in half

Gather foam letters for each child's name

Directions:

Glue the engine onto a half piece of 9x13 construction paper

Glue the box cars behind the engine - 1 for each letter of your name

Dip a glue stick cover into black paint and press onto each boxcar 2 times (the wheels)

Press your index finger into the paint and press into the middle of each circle.

Make your name - sticking the letters on the boxcars

 

Book Connection:  Chugga Chugga Choo Choo 

By: Kevin Lewis

 

Name Tree

Skills:  pasting, name writing, color identification, counting, following directions

Cut a brown tree trunk from construction paper

Cut leaves from colored construction paper (enough for the letters in your child's/children's name/s)

Directions:

Glue the tree trunk to a piece of construction paper

Glue the leaves around the tree trunk.

Write your name on the leaves - 1 letter for each leaf.

 

 

Book Connection: Leaf Trouble

By:  Jonathan Emmett 

Name Apple Prints

Skills:  name writing and recognition, following directions

Cut an apple in half

Dip the apple half into red paint and press onto a piece of green construction paper

Make the same number apple prints as letters in your name!

Let dry - write your name. 

 

Tana's Name Print!

 Book Connection:  Little Mouse and the Big Red Apple

By:  A.H. Benjamin and Gwyneth Williamson

 

Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom Names

Skills:  name recognition and ordering, following directions, counting, name writing, pasting

Cut out 4 green leaves/branches and fringe the edges

Cut out a brown tree trunk and accordion fold

Cut out two brown coconuts.

Type and print: 

Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom!

Will there be enough room?

________has _____

letters in his/her name!

Directions:

Glue the tree trunk onto yellow construction paper

Glue the 4 leaves/branches around the trunk

Glue the 2 coconuts in the middle of the trunk and branches

Stick the letters to your name around the branches and or trunk in order

Write your name on the line

Count the letters in your name and write that number on the line

Glue the poem to the bottom of your tree!

 

Book Connection: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

By:  Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault