Dog Themed Preschool Name Activity [FREE Printable]
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Get a head start on preschool by teaching your child their name with this dog-themed preschool name activity.
When you’re a mom trying to balance it all, there are some things that feel like a monumental challenge.
Like getting your child ready for preschool or kindergarten.
What are they supposed to know before starting school?
How are you going to teach it to them?
How can you make it fun?
I can totally relate to this feeling.
Preschool Dog Name Activity
Pretty soon, I’m going to have a 3-year-old and that means I need to start teaching him some basic things.
Things like the alphabet, numbers, shapes, colors and recognizing his name.
While we’re still working on the alphabet, I’ve had several readers ask me for some printables related to teaching kids their name, so I created these dog name puzzle printables.
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These dog puzzles are editable with Adobe Reader so you can enter your child’s name and begin learning in no time!
Materials:
- Adobe Reader (free; if you don’t have it, download here)
- Color Copy Digital Cover Paper
- Laminator (optional, but increases durability)
- Laminating pouches (optional)
- Scissors or Paper trimmer
- Dog name puzzle (available at bottom of post)
Directions:
Download Adobe Reader (if you don’t have it already).
Open the dog name puzzle printable and enter your child’s name in the dog puzzle that has the appropriate number of spaces.
Print the corresponding page on thick, cover paper.
Laminate to increase durability.
Cut out each letter and show your child how to spell their name. Repeat until they can complete the puzzle on their own.
Bonus: If your child already knows how to spell their name, print out a few blank dog puzzles and have them practice writing their names on the blank puzzles.
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This is so cute. It will work well with our pet study.
That’s awesome to hear—hope it fits in perfectly with your pet study!
love this for our vet unit
Oh, good! I’m happy to hear that!
Please could I have this
Of course! All you need to do is enter your email in the form at the end of this post to have the link sent to you 🙂
I can’t seem to find the link to download the activity on your page? I’d love to use it in my classroom!
It’s above the comments section. If you’re not able to see it, it most likely means you have a firewall blocking it from appearing. If you can allow the page or try from a personal device, you should be able to see it. Also, some readers say they’re not able to see it on Chrome, but they can on other browsers. You may be able to try that as well ◡̈
Awesome!
Thanks!
Thank you!
You’re welcome!
This looks like fun.
Thanks! I hope it is for the kids!
Thank you perfect for our Pet Theme!
You’re welcome. Glad you can use it!
Love these!
Thanks!
great!
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So Neat!
Thanks!
Perfect for my pets theme
Woohoo! Hope they like it!
LOVE THIS ACTIVITY
So glad! Thanks!!!
NEat!