Topic: teaching writing to young learners

5. Cut Out My Name

• This activity helps children to take an interest in cursive writing and can double up as handwriting games.
• Material You Need
• Paper
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Paints
• How To Play
• Take a blank sheet and fold it into the half.
• Let them write their names in cursive hand. Make it flowing and large. The writing should be along the crease of the fold.
• Make the children trace over the writing many times over.
• Let them fold the paper along the same crease again.
• Have the children run over the folded piece many times until the writing creates a mirror image on the other half of the sheet.
• Get the kids to cut out the names, leaving a slight amount of white space around the writing. The resultant image should look like a large bug.
• Students can paint and glue these name “bugs” onto their cupboards.