Fun With Name Bags

Here's a way to incorporate letters and spelling in a fun relatable way for your child!

Materials needed: -Paper towel/toilet paper rolls
                               -Sandwich bags
                               -3x5 (or smaller) pictures of each family member and/or friends
                               -Thick black marker
                               -Scissors

I started off by cutting the paper towel rolls into about 2 inch circles.  I then wrote one letter on each circle spelling the name of each member.



Mallory helped put each picture in a bag. (Great one to one correspondence activity as well!) To start we included our immediate family and grandparents. Obviously you can do it any way you'd like and add pets, schoolmates, friends etc.





I chose to include uppercase letters only because it tends to be easier for younger children to learn uppercase first but there's different theories on this so again tailor it to your child's level and certainly for older children it makes sense to include both lowercase and uppercase.



The was a big hit and Mallory had fun spelling each family member's name. She would ask me what letter comes next and I showed her how the letters go from left to right.



Done!


*I am a firm believer that young children learn to write by being exposed to lots of FUN hands on writing experiences that are meaningful to their lives.  An example of this occurred during our little activity.

While we were putting together the family word bags Mallory saw that I was writing words on the tubes and wanted to do it as well! She wanted to model the writing she saw me doing and her writing had a purpose!  So much more powerful than sitting down with a worksheet!

She said "Mommy I'm making M's!"