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Make Custom Printable Name Puzzles for the Whole Year

Use these 11 different printable name puzzles with your preschoolers for name and literacy activities. Find ideas for the whole year! Perfect for your preschool or kindergarten classroom, or at-home learning or homeschool. Teach your kids to spell their names, construct their names, and the beginning steps to writing their names with these hands-on activities. Make learning fun in fall, winter, spring, & fall with themes from pumpkin, Thanksgiving, caterpillar, snowman, and many more!

Use these fun printable name puzzles for motivating and meaningful literacy activities for the entire year.

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Name Writing Activities for Preschool

From helpful hints to ideas for name writing activities for your preschool kids, this step-by-step guide will help you teach your kids to write their names. Find lots of ideas for name practice that are simple and motivating and fun. Steps include name recognition, name spelling, name tracing, and finally, name writing.

From helpful hints to ideas for name writing activities for your preschool kids, this step-by-step guide will help you teach your kids to write their names

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This is What You Need to Make Name Practice Motivating: Name Activity Mats

There are so many ways that your kids can work on name practice with these editable name activity mats. Perfect for early childhood, preschool, and pre-k classroom, this is a fun way to work on name recognition, the alphabet, letter sounds, spelling their names, handwriting practice, fine motor skills...etc.. You can even include pictures. Use for back to school, the beginning of the school year, an all about me theme unit or lesson plans. #preschool #nameactivities #backtoschool

There are so many ways that your kids can work on name practice with these editable name activity mats. You will love these multi-sensory name activities.

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Learn to Spell Your Name with Crayon Name Puzzles

Use these fun editable crayon name puzzles to work on name recognition and a variety of literacy activities with your kids. Your class will love these personalized printable puzzles. Use them in your preschool, pre-k and kindergarten class to work on name recognition, alphabet knowledge, letter recognition and learning a variety of pre-literacy skills. Perfect for your literacy centers. #preschool #nameactivities #alphabetactivities

Use these fun editable crayon name puzzles to work on name recognition and to teach kids to spell their names. 

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Name Activity Ideas for Your Preschoolers

Check out these fun name activity ideas that you can use in the preschool, pre-k and kindergarten classroom. Kids love themselves and they love their name. That's why using name activities is a super way to help kids learn about early literacy concepts in a meaningful way. Perfect for your literacy centers, this article has tons of ideas from free printables to circle time ideas. Young children can work on learning and spelling their name while learning letter sounds. #nameactivities

Here are a bunch of name activity ideas that you can use with your kids. Kids love themselves and they love their name. That’s why using name activities is a super way to help kids learn about early literacy concepts in a meaningful way.

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It’s Time to Celebrate with These Editable Name Puzzles

Use these banner and confetti editable name puzzles to work on alphabet recognition, name practice, alphabet, and beginning sound activities with your #preschool and #prek kids. Use for a New Years, Christmas, or holiday unit and lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. Use in literacy centers or stations or on bulletin boards.

Use these banner and confetti editable name puzzles to work on alphabet recognition and name practice with your kids.

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How to Easily Customize Train Name Puzzles

Are you looking for fun name activities for your literacy centers? These train name puzzles are perfect for back to school or your transportation theme unit and lesson plans in #preschool, #prek and #kindergarten. Teach name spelling, name recognition and letters while learning about land vehicles and trains. The editable printables can also be used for bulletin boards and decoration. Ideas also include fine motor activities & for spelling words. #nameactivities #transportationtheme

You can easily customize these train name puzzles and use them to work on name and literacy activities in a fun way.

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How to Make Custom School Bus Name Puzzles

Use these editable school bus name puzzles to work on alphabet recognition and name practice with your kids. Perfect for #preschool #prek and kindergarten in literacy learning centers. Perfect for the beginning of the year, end of the year, or transportation theme unit and lesson plans. Teach kids to spell their name and teach letters and beginning sounds in a fun, meaningful way. #nameactivities #transportationtheme

Use these editable school bus name puzzles to work on alphabet recognition and name practice with your kids.

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Try out these hand strengthening activities for kids. The fun fine motor activities will build and improve strength in little hand muscles. From squeezing activities to hole punch and plunger activities, these ideas to increase hand strength are perfect for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, occupational therapy classrooms, and at home. From theraputty, toys like squigz, and squirt guns your preschoolers will love these ideas. Check them out today.
Use these free printable nature scavenger hunt books to encourage kids to write, draw, and read while exploring their world. Perfect for pre-k, preschool or kindergarten age kids. Use the free printables in the classroom, on the playground, during nature walks or hikes, on camping trips, in the backyard, or during summer camp. Use this emergent reader for your plant and seeds theme, spring theme, and pond theme unit and lesson plans. #preschool #preschoolactivities
Alphabet activities such as making letter collages or using letter mats are a great hands-on way to teach letter identification and reinforce letter-sounds. Here are over 200 material ideas that you can use for your collages or letter mats. A printable reference list or art and other materials is included. Better than worksheets, these are perfect hands-on activity for your preschool and pre-k classroom or lesson plans. Your young children will love this sensory learning opportunity. #preachool

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Kids love these hole punch activities. Use the printables to build fine motor skills, for hand strengthening, and to improve hand-eye coordination in a fun and exciting way. Perfect for your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, special education and occupational therapy classroom. The printables include shapes and many themes and seasonal printables to use during spring, summer, winter, and fall. #finemotor #finemotorskills #preschool
Use these 11 different printable name puzzles with your preschoolers for name and literacy activities. Find ideas for the whole year! Perfect for your preschool or kindergarten classroom, or at-home learning or homeschool. Teach your kids to spell their names, construct their names, and the beginning steps to writing their names with these hands-on activities. Make learning fun in fall, winter, spring, & fall with themes from pumpkin, Thanksgiving, caterpillar, snowman, and many more!
There are so many ways that your kids can work on name practice with these editable name activity mats. Perfect for early childhood, preschool, and pre-k classroom, this is a fun way to work on name recognition, the alphabet, letter sounds, spelling their names, handwriting practice, fine motor skills...etc.. You can even include pictures. Use for back to school, the beginning of the school year, an all about me theme unit or lesson plans. #preschool #nameactivities #backtoschool
Use these 1-20 number activity mats to help your kids in preschool, pre-k and kindergarten learn counting, number recognition, one-to-one correspondence, and number sense.  The mats are a great multi-sensory tool that your kids will love. There are so many ways to explore numbers on just one page. Use playdough to form numerals, trace the dotted numbers, represent the number with finger-counting cards, ten frame, and build the number with counting cubes. #preschoolmath #prekmath #kindergarten
Use these CVC Beginning Sound Clip cards to help your kids hear and see the beginning sounds in words. They will love this hands-on early literacy activity...perfect for teaching early literacy concepts in your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. 17 word families are included. Looking for ideas for teaching rhyming, letter sounds, phonemic awareness, and phonological awareness? These activities are perfect for your literacy centers as independent and small group activities.
These rhyming clip cards will help your kids see and hear rhymes in simple CVC words. Kids love clipping clothespins on the rhyming words in this activity. Perfect for small group or independent activities in your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, or SPED classroom. An engaging way to teach rhyming, early literacy concepts, and phonological awareness to young children. #rhymingactivities

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