The Best Editable Name Books for Preschool and Kindergarten

Are you trying to help your kids learn to recognize and write their names? These personalized name books for preschool and kindergarten are a fun and motivating name activity for preschool kids.

Use these easy-to-customize name-writing activity books filled with different activities to help your child learn to recognize and write their own name. This is also a great tool for learning letter recognition and letter sounds.

Your kids will have so much fun completing their book.

Why Are Name Activities Motivating?

A child’s name is the most important word in their life.  Learning to recognize and spell their special word is an engaging way to begin learning about the features of print and early literacy concepts.

These printable books include a variety of name activities ideas to help young children learn to recognize their names, recognize and name letters in their names, work on writing their names, and are even a great way to build some fine motor skills along the way.  The books are available in my store.

How to Make a Name Book for your kids?

I designed 15 different pages that you can add to your customized books to make books that are just right for your kids.  Don’t consider this a one-off activity where you must print the entire book. In fact…there are sooo many page options that it’ll be difficult to bind them all together.

Instead, think of this as a custom activity that you can create for your kids.  It’s easy to mix and match the pages to create a variety of books for your kids so that they can have continued practice as they learn to recognize, trace, and then write their own names. They are perfect name activities for preschool for the beginning of the year and beyond.

Here are the page options that are included with the PDF.

My Name Book Cover Page:

Kids can work on name recognition and naming the letters in their names as they color the title pages.  Can they find their book in a pile with other books?  What makes their name look different?  Help kids find some unique things about their names.

Beginning Letter of My Name Page:

The most important letter of their most important word is the first letter of a child’s name.

Kids can name that first letter, finger-trace the large letter, color the large bubble letter, and identify or circle the letter in their written name.

I Can Color My Name Page:

This page features big bold letters with stars on them.  Kids can color this page and finger-trace the letters.

I Can Name the Letters in My Name Page:

On this page, the letters print with a dot below them.  Kids can focus on learning each individual letter and begin to learn how to spell their names as they touch each dot on this page.

I Can Circle the Letters of My Name Page

This page will help your kids learn to recoginize all the letters in their names.  They can scan through the letters on the page and circle the ones that are in their name.

I Can Highlight My Name:

This page has several different names on it.  Your kids will scan through all the different names to find and highlight theirs.

I Can Trace My Name Page #1 – Dotted Letters:

If your kids are ready to learn to write their names, the document includes three customized tracing name pages.  On the first, kids can trace the dotted letters of their names.   You can use a marker to make a small colored dot on the starting point to help beginners properly form letters.

I Can Trace My Name Page #2 – Dotted with Three Lines:

The second option allows you to print name tracing practice pages with lines to help kids learn each letter’s proper height and formation.  This page also helps kids see that some letters are tall and some are short.  Do any of the letters have tails, hooks, or dots?

I Can Trace My Name Page #3 – Over the Solid Line:

I think that it’s sometimes difficult to see letters that are traced over dotted lines.  If you like a cleaner-looking tracing method, try this page.  Kids can trace the letters by writing over thick gray letters. Again, you can use a marker to make a small colored dot on the starting point to help beginners.

I Can Rainbow Write My Name:

Kids will enjoy tracing the bubble letters with one crayon color and then tracing over that color with additional crayons. Want to make this activity more playful?   Make a color die from a small square cube to help kids determine which colors to use as they trace.

I Can Write My Name in the Letter Boxes Page:

Here is another page that will help kids with letter recognition.  They can see that some letters are tall, some are short, and some have tails as they write each letter in the boxes.

I Can Count the Letters in My Name:

Kids can color and count the letters and then write the number on the line.  As them to compare their number to a friend’s number.  Which is higher and which is lower?

I Can Write My Name Page: 

With supported practice, your kids will be ready to write their names.  This page features a blank box that  is the perfect place to practice the skill.

I Can Build My Name Page:

You have some flexibility with this page.  Kids can glue letter squares (from the next page) to make their names on this page. They can also use letter stickers on stamps on this page.  Have fun with it!

I Can Cut Out the Letters in My Name Page:

This final page includes letter squares that kids can glue to the previous page with a glue stick.  Kids can cut the squares out on their own or you can cut them out in advance, place them in a plastic bag, and attach it to the book.

How to Customize the Editable Name Books

Now that you have seen allllll the options for creating your own personalized name practice books, let me show you how easy it is to customize the pages of your books. 

I know that you don’t have a lot of extra time to make editable activities for your kids, so I made sure to make sure that these books are easy to customize.  You don’t have to install any new fonts on your computer, but you do need to use the most recent version of Adobe Acrobat Reader…..and you need to use your laptop or desktop.

I recently updated the download to include both and editable pdf option for making an single editable name books for on child, and the option to create a batch of books for an entire class.  The individual option is perfect for homeschool and at-home name practice activities.

It’s super easy to customize a set of name books for your entire class. All you have to do is type your students’ names and the individual letters into the class list for at the beginning of the resource.  When you add the list of names and letters, all of the details are instantly added to the all the pages throughout the document.

What if I have a child with a really long name? The “cut the letter” and “find the letter ” pages will accommodate names with 11 letters. On the remaining pages….you can have names with an unlimited number of letters in them. The font will just get smaller on the page to accommodate all the letters.

Customize it!

There are 15  page options that you can choose from.  You can use the print planner pages to help you determine which pages to print.  You can get creative and make a book that is just right for your kids. 

Create a book with a variety of different pages, or create a simple book with duplicate pages for repetition. You can make a book with 5 rainbow writing pages and have kids complete one page each day when they come to class.

Easy to Assemble Name Practice Books

Again, because you don’t have much time, I make the books very easy to assemble.  You can prepare enough for an entire class in no time.

The books print 4 per page and can be easily assembled.  After printing, stack one set of pages neatly into a pile.

Next, place two staples on the left side of each book, as shown in the picture below.

Finally, you can cut the books apart on the dotted lines to create four individual books.

How to Use the Personalize Name Practice Books

A personalized book is a great way to work on early literacy skills and language development.  Here are some fun ways that you can use the printables.

First Day of School Activity

Prep books for you kindergarten students.  This is a great activity to accompany an All About Me thematic unit on the firs day or at the beginning of the school year.

Reusable Name Book

Laminate the pages prior to assembling them so that you have reusable books that you can use all year.

Sign-in Sheets

You can certainly make amazing personalized books with the resource, but there are other ways that you can use it.  Print the same name onto 4 tracing pages.  Use it as a sign-in sheet when your kids arrive every morning.  

Place them in page protectors and you have a reusable name binder or let your kids print on the pages so that you have a record of how your kids have progressed since the beginning of the new school year.

Writing Center Activity

Place the name practice pages in your writing center for some name fun.   Your kids can have the chance to practice writing a new name or two…they will enjoy practicing writing their friend’s name. You may run across some unique names of  characters as you read picture books. Add  some of those to the center as well.  At home, you can make some pages or even make a personalized book  for different family members.

Individual Pages for Name Activities

Instead of binding the activity pages into books, you can use them for individual activities featuring each student’s name in your learning centers.  Laminate tracing pages so kids can use them repeatedly, prep letter squares to create a puzzle activity or use the counting letters page as a mini name mat.  Provide basic art supplies to make mini name art projects.  After completing the pages you can use them as name tags.

Last Name Activity

In addition to creating an editable name book for your kids featuring their first names, you can also make one that features their last names. 

Class Books

Make an “I Can Count The Letters in My Name” page featuring all of your kids’ names.  Let your kids color and complete their pages and then compile them into a class book for your class library.  Your kids will have a blast with this great book.

Purchase The Name Activity Books Today

Are you ready to get started creating custom name-writing activities for your kids.  Visit my store to purchase the Name Activity Books today. The books can also be purchased as part of the money-saving Name Activity Bundle.

Purchase the Name Books for Preschool and Kindergarten on TPT

Do you prefer to shop at Teachers Pay Teachers? You can also purchase the Name Books and Name Bundle in my TPT Store.

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