Writing my name

Ages 3 to 5 Read and do together · about 10 minutes

Read together

This is your name. It is yours.

Let us make the letters, one by one.

Do it

1. Write your child's name in big letters on a card, with the first letter capital.
2. Trace the letters in the air with a finger. Then trace on the card.
3. Write them in sand, flour or shaving foam on a tray. Say each letter's sound.
4. Let your child try with a fat crayon. Praise the trying, not the neatness.

Talk about it

• Which letter is your favourite?
• Can you find your first letter on a sign?

For the grown-up

Children often write their name before anything else. Let them hold the pencil in any way that is comfortable, and play with large movements first, because small hand muscles take time.

Mark as done

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