My Name

For an early school year activity, I like to have the kids work on recognizing their names. For many, they know what their name looks like but they don't necessarily know how to spell it. This activity covers both concerns.

Items Needed:

-  Head Template 

- T-Shirt Template

- Arms and Hands

- Construction Paper

- Circles

- Markers

To make these adorable people, cut out the heads in flesh toned construction paper. One for each student. My assistant cut out hands and arms just by sketching onto the same color paper. There really is no template for those. Of course, cut 2 for each student. 

For the t-shirt, what I did was cut out the top of the t-shirt but left the length very long. After the student glued their letters on, I went back and just trimmed it to the right length. This helped with those who had really long names. When cutting out the t-shirts, cut them in different colors. It allows the kids to get to personalize it that much more. 

For the buttons, we used a 1-inch circle punch. Count how many letters your students names add up to. Then punch that many out of a contrasting paper color. 

Since this was a very early activity in the school year, my assistant and I wrote the letters on the buttons but if we were to do it for a bit older child or even later on in the school year I would let the child write the letters. 

The students lined their buttons up in the correct order then glued them onto the shirt. They used markers to add faces and scraps of paper for hair. We told them to make the faces look like theirs. A couple of the boys who have hysterical personalities asked to add a little to their faces. Hence why there is a "pirate" and a boy with a mustache. :-)

We glued the heads and arms on and they were done! I love how these came out and the kids had so much fun doing them. They really liked adding the details to make them look like themselves.