What's in a Name? Stay at Home Mom Fun Projects
It has been said "What's in a name? A Rose by any other name would smell as sweet". This is a line from the Shakespeare play "Romeo and Juliet" when the two teens are lamenting about the fact that their last names are keeping them from being together.
Names are important to our children especially when they are first learning to talk and then when they are learning to identify their place in the world.
When our child first says the words Mama or Dada we are thrilled and delighted. From that point on we begin a fantastic journey of identifying things by their name. Ball - Car - Dog - and on and on.
Here is a fun project to do on one of those rainy days.
This same project can be customized to your child's age and attention span.
Supplies Needed: a piece of blank paper, crayons or colored pencils, dictionary (optional)
Preschool / pre writing:
1. Take a piece of paper and write out your child's name in big letters across the top of the paper. If your child has a long name you can turn the paper on its side to write on the long segment of the page. You can write their name in big outlined letters that they can color in and decorate.
2. Have your child think of words that begin with each letter of their name and write it under each letter. If your child is very young you may have to help them think of words and write them down.
3. If your child is young then take the piece of paper with the words and have them color around the words.
New Readers:
1. Similar process to the preschooler project. Write their name along the top of a piece of paper.
2. Give them a dictionary and have them find 5 cool words that begin with the same letter as each letter in their name. Write these cool words under each letter in their name.
3. Color the page and talk about some of these new words and how they relate to your child.
Advanced:
1. Write their name along the top of a page.
2. Using any dictionary or just their imagination write out a few words that begin with each letter of their name.
3. Using these words have them write a poem about themselves with the first line of the poem starting out with the first letter of their name, the second line starting out with the second letter of their name and so on until they have a poem using every letter in their name.
This poem can be an Acrostic like Lewis Carroll's "A Boat, beneath a Sunny Sky" or as in the famous song written in the early 1900's by Howard Johnson "MOTHER, a word that means the word to me"
Names are important to our children especially when they are first learning to talk and then when they are learning to identify their place in the world.
When our child first says the words Mama or Dada we are thrilled and delighted. From that point on we begin a fantastic journey of identifying things by their name. Ball - Car - Dog - and on and on.
Stay at Home Mom Fun Project
What's in a Name
Here is a fun project to do on one of those rainy days.This same project can be customized to your child's age and attention span.
Supplies Needed: a piece of blank paper, crayons or colored pencils, dictionary (optional)
Preschool / pre writing:
1. Take a piece of paper and write out your child's name in big letters across the top of the paper. If your child has a long name you can turn the paper on its side to write on the long segment of the page. You can write their name in big outlined letters that they can color in and decorate.
2. Have your child think of words that begin with each letter of their name and write it under each letter. If your child is very young you may have to help them think of words and write them down.
3. If your child is young then take the piece of paper with the words and have them color around the words.
New Readers:
1. Similar process to the preschooler project. Write their name along the top of a piece of paper.
2. Give them a dictionary and have them find 5 cool words that begin with the same letter as each letter in their name. Write these cool words under each letter in their name.
3. Color the page and talk about some of these new words and how they relate to your child.
Advanced:
1. Write their name along the top of a page.
2. Using any dictionary or just their imagination write out a few words that begin with each letter of their name.
3. Using these words have them write a poem about themselves with the first line of the poem starting out with the first letter of their name, the second line starting out with the second letter of their name and so on until they have a poem using every letter in their name.
This poem can be an Acrostic like Lewis Carroll's "A Boat, beneath a Sunny Sky" or as in the famous song written in the early 1900's by Howard Johnson "MOTHER, a word that means the word to me"
When you are done be sure and put these projects on the fridge and then after a good amount of time file these away. Put them in your treasure box.
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