Description
Are you looking for fun, hands-on ways to help your students practice name recognition while building essential fine motor skills? Work on cutting, coloring, and letter recognition abilities while creating personalized name projects with the Fall Fine Motor Name Crafts. This a great way to help students learn their names before they have developed the foundation skills for handwriting, to avoid poor letter formation habits.
Created by a certified occupational therapy assistant, the 59 page PDF digital packet will be available electronically immediately following payment.
This printable PDF is the perfect resource for helping young students practice name recognition and develop essential fine motor skills. These are great addition to any bulletin board display. Designed with occupational therapy in mind, this resource helps students work on cutting, coloring, letter recognition, and spelling as they create personalized name crafts. This Fall set includes a crayon, an apple tree, a bushel of apples, tree with leaves, a squirrel with nuts, and a wagon of pumpkins.
When is a good time to use the Fall Fine Motor Name Crafts?
- Beginning of the school year to help students learn to recognize and spell their names
- Occupational therapy sessions focusing on fine motor and cutting skills
- As part of a letter recognition unit in preschool or early elementary grades
- Bulletin board displays for open houses, back-to-school events, or classroom celebrations
- Morning work, centers, or small group activities for students working on sight words or trick words
What is included in the Fall Fine Motor Name Crafts Packet?
- Blank templates and pages with letters on the images. Upper and lower case letters included
- Color and black-and-white versions included
- Printable craft pieces that students can color, cut, and assemble
- Multiple page options to allow for duplication for larger class sizes
- Blank templates for your or your student to write in the letters
What skills are students working on with this resource?
- Fine motor skills: cutting, gluing, and coloring
- Letter and name recognition
- Spelling their names or sight words
- Visual-motor integration
- Hand-eye coordination and attention to detail
- Visual discrimination: Cut out the letters and have students hunt for the letters they need.
Key Features of the Fall Fine Motor Name Crafts Packet
- Teachers can easily duplicate pages for multiple students or manually fill in names for the non-editable version
- Crafts allow students to color, cut out, and glue their pieces together, creating a hands-on activity that reinforces letter formation and recognition
- Perfect for bulletin boards, OT sessions, and morning work
Differentiation Options:
- Provide a model of their name, Pre-cut the images
- Use color options for less fine motor
- Challenge students by having them find the letters they need in a pile. Work on letter discrimination and perception.
- Provide students with just the letters they need for their name
- Challenge students to write the letters of their name on the images and put them in order.
This name craft PDF is a great tool for helping students practice spelling their names and building fine motor skills through cutting and assembling. With multiple page options, this resource is adaptable for both classrooms and occupational therapy settings.
