50 Name Recognition Activities, Crafts, and Worksheets for Preschool and Kindergarten

June 5, 2021
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It takes a lot of repetition and practice to help students learn to recognize, write, and spell their name. But learning their name is one of the most important skills you can give toddler, preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten children. The best way to work on name recognition is lots of fun, engaging practice! So we’ve pulled together these name activities to help kids practice making their name with hands-on name activities for kids. Plus check out the cute name crafts and name recognition activities too. Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler – you will love these ideas.

It takes a lot of repetition and practice to help students learn to recognize, write, and spell their name. But learning their name is one of the most important skills you can give toddler, preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten children. The best way to work on name recognition is lots of fun, engaging practice! So we've pulled together these name activities to help kids practice making their name with hands-on name activities for kids. Plus check out the cute name crafts and name recognition activities too. Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler - you will love these ideas.

Name Activities

Name activities are not only fun but are also crucial for early childhood development. From tracing letters to making fun preschool name crafts, there are so many hands-on name activities that will make learning names exciting and meaningful for your kids. Whether you’re a parent seeking extra enrichment for your child or a homeschooler or teacher searching for name recognition activities, these name activities for preschool will engage young learners while fostering crucial literacy skills.

Lots more preschool activities and free preschool worksheets age 3-4 to make learning fun. Plus free kindergarten worksheets and lots of fun kindergarten activities too.

How to Teach a Child to Write their Name

Learning to recognize, read, and write their names is a significant milestone in a child’s development. The first step to teaching your child their name is to start by teaching them to recognize their name in print. Often this process starts by your child learning to recognize the first letter in their name, and then the subsequent letters, which is a first building block of reading. You can support this learning by exposing your child to their name often and in various ways – label their belongings, write their name on art work, and do lots of fun name crafts and name activities so they can see their
name in print.

As children are able to recognize the letters in their name they start to understand that those letters represent specific sounds and combine to form words. They then progress to decoding their name as a whole word.

The final step in this process is learning to write their names independently. Children may begin by experimenting with writing random letters or scribbles that represent their name, and then later learn to form the letters correctly and in the correct sequence to successfully write their names. It’s important to encourage children through all stages of this process and provide lots of different name activities and opportunities to write their names.

Here are some of our favorite tools to use when teaching kids to write their name:

Learning to recognize your name is the first step in learning your name. These fun name recognition activities for preschool are a great place to start when it comes to your child learning their name. There are also lost of name recognition activities for kindergarten kids too!

Name Activities for Kids

Name activities for preschool are more than just fun, they are powerfultools for teaching young children their names and laying the foundation for literacy skills.  Plus see all our name projects by site:

Name Recognition Activities

Learning to recognize your name is the first step in learning your name. These fun name recognition activities for preschool are a great place to start when it comes to your child learning their name. There are also lost of name recognition activities for kindergarten kids too!

  • Slime Name Recognition Activities from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
    This super fun and silly name recognition activities for kindergarten, preschool, and pre-k is sure to be a hit with your kids.
  • Name Recognition with Playdough Activity from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
    You will love this fun, hands-on, name recognition activity for preschoolers.
  • Learn your Name with Cars from Buggy and Buddy.
    Have fun driving cars over the letters in your child’s name with this fun name recognition activity.
  • Name Basketball from Toddler Approved
    Your kids will love this whole body activity to learn to recognize the letters in their name.
  • Beginner Name Writing from Buggy and Buddy.
    This is a fun name recognition activity that is perfect for toddlers, preschoolers and older kids.
  • Fizzy Name Activity from Hands on as we Grow.
    Your kids will love squirting the letters in their name to make them fizz!
  • I Spy Name Ornament for Kids from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
    This is a fun way to work on name recognition with your kids this Christmas.
  • Name Recognition Sensory Bin from Creative Family Fun.
    This is a great name activity for toddlers and preschoolers!

Name activities for preschool are more than just fun, they are powerfultools for teaching young children their names and laying the foundation for literacy skills.

Name activities for preschool

Free name tracing worksheets

Using name tracing worksheets is a simple, handy way to reinforce name recognition with preschoolers and kindergartners! Plus we teachers love that it is no-prep too!

Name crafts are a fun and engaging way for kids to practice recognizing, reading and writing their names. These fun name crafts for preschool are also great for toddlers and older kids who are working on learning their names. Your kids won't even notice they are learning with these fun preschool name crafts.

Name Crafts

Name crafts are a fun and engaging way for kids to practice recognizing, reading and writing their names. These fun name crafts for preschool are also great for toddlers and older kids who are working on learning their names. Your kids won’t even notice they are learning with these fun preschool name crafts.

  • Printable Flower Name Craft for Preschoolers from Preschool Play and Learn.
    Kids will have fun working on name recognition with this super cute flower name craft.
  • St. Patrick’s Day Pot of Gold Cereal Craft from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
    This cute name craft is perfect for marking in March to celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day with kids!
  • Pumpkin Seed Names from Fun a Day
    Kids will love using colorful dyed pumpkin seeds to learn the letters in their name.
  • Camping Name Craft from Preschool Play and Learn.
    This super cute camping craft is also a fun name craft to help kids learn to recognize their name!
  • Name Art Canvas from Westman Family.
    This is a great toddler name activity and a great artwork to hang in your home to help your child learn their name.
  • Homemade Puffy Paint Recipe from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
    Kids will love writing their name with one of these super fun puffy paint recipes!

Preschool name activities

  • Silly Spider Name Craft from Preschool Play and Learn.
    This free printable name craft is perfect for Halloween!
  • French Fry Name Craft for preschoolers from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
    Kids will have fun practicing spelling their name with this fun-to-make French Fry theme name craft.
  • Marshmallow Names from Fun a Day
    This preschool name craft is perfect for a winter learning theme.
  • Ice Cream Name Craft from Preschool Play and Learn.
    This ice cream preschool name craft is perfect for a summer learning theme!
  • Straw Collage Name Craft from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
    Help your preschool or Kindergartner learn their name with this colorful collage activity.

Name Craft

Name activities play an important role in early literacy development by helping children become familiar with the letters that form their name, fostering a sense of identity, and building literacy skills. These fun preschool name activities are great for toddlers and older kids too, and will help kids learn to recognize their names and also develop the fine motor skills and confidence to write their names too.

Name Activities for Preschoolers

Name activities play an important role in early literacy development by helping children become familiar with the letters that form their name, fostering a sense of identity, and building literacy skills. These fun preschool name activities are great for toddlers and older kids too, and will help kids learn to recognize their names and also develop the fine motor skills and confidence to write their names too.

Name activities for kindergarten

  • Name Hockey from How Wee Learn.
    This is an active, hands-on, name activity that sporty kids will love!
  • Little Bo Peep Name Hunt from Messy Little Monster.
    This nursery rhyme themed name hunt is a fun way for kids to learn the letters in their name.
  • Hands-on Name Card Activities from Picklebums.
    These easy name card activities are a great way to help preschoolers learn to recognise, and later write, their name.
  • Plasticine Name Practice from Mamma Papa Bubba
    Give those fine motor muscles a workout while also working on learning your name!
  • Build a Name STEM Activity from Inspiration Laboratories.
    This is a great hands-on name activity for kindergarten and older kids.
  • Bubble Wrap Name Activity from Coffee Cups and Crayons.
    Kids will have a ‘popping good time’ with this fun, hands-on, name activity.
  • Name Hop from Fantastic Fun and Learning.
    This gross motor game activity is sure to be a hit with your kids!
  • Gingerbread Name Activity from Books and Giggles.
    This fun holiday name activity uses gingerbread scented play dough!

FUN name activities to help kids work on name recognition including name crafts for preschool and kindergarten, worksheets, and activities!

Practice name

Trying some of these fun and easy name crafts and name activities with your kids will not only help them learn to recognize and write their name, but also foster their creativity, enhance their cognitive skills and strengthen their sense of identity and self-expression. Which one of these name recognition activities will you try with your kids?

Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of 123 Homeschool 4 Me. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! With over 20 years educating children, she has created over 1 million pages of printables to help teach kids alphabet, math, science, English grammar, history, and so much more! Beth is also the creator of 2 additional sites with even more educational activities and FREE printables - www.kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com and www.preschoolplayandlearn.com. Beth studied at the University of Northwestern where she got a double major to make her effective at teaching children while making education FUN!

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  1. Marylou De Leon Bagasan says:

    Thank you so much Beth for this wonderful free activities I can use with my 3-4 yr old special needs student

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