How it works
- Add names. Type one name, or paste your class list with one name per line.
- Choose print or cursive. Start dots and arrows show where each print letter begins.
- Pick a size and rows. The sheet on the right updates as you go.
- Download and print. Every name is its own page in one PDF.
Names from every classroom
Canadian classes are full of names with accents and apostrophes: Zoé, Léa, François, D’Arcy. The letters here come from real handwriting fonts with the accents drawn in, so every child sees their name spelled the way it should be.
Teaching a child to write their name
Capital first, then lower case
Children see their name with a capital letter and lower-case letters on their cubby and their books. Type the name exactly as you want it practised, or set Capital letters to “Capital first”.
Little and often
A few rows a day works better than a whole page at once. Slip the sheet into a page protector and use a dry-erase marker to practise again.
Provincial curriculum links
- BC KRecognizing familiar words and names, and experimenting with letters to share meaning.
- BC Grade 1Capitals for people’s names and for the word I, and legible printing.
- ON KThe Ontario Curriculum, Kindergarten, 2026 adds explicit early literacy teaching within a play-based program.
In Ontario most children start Junior Kindergarten in the year they turn four, so name writing is often a two-year project: recognizing the name in the first year, writing it with one capital and lowercase letters by the second. In BC, Kindergarten is a single year, and a child’s own name is often the first familiar word they read without help.
Grade 1 in BC expects capitals on people’s names, so a name sheet is also a quiet lesson in why the first letter is different from the rest.
Summarized in our own words from BC English Language Arts (K–1) and The Ontario Curriculum, Kindergarten, 2026.
