Editable Name Practice Puzzles - Heart Puzzles

Are you looking for a fun and easy February or Valentine's Day hearts name craft or editable name practice activity for your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom? Use these fun, editable Mother's Day or Valentine’s Day heart name puzzles or word puzzles to customize exciting name activities for your whole class.  These fun heart shape Valentine’s Day activities will help you teach name recognition, teach letters, and teach kids how to spell their name.  You can also use these editable Valentines Day puzzle templates to create word puzzles for sight words or spelling words.  Perfect for a heart name craft, a Valentine gift for kids, or a special message for Mom on Mother's Day.

Use the heart puzzles as a Valentine’s Day craft, for a Valentine’s Day bulletin board, as a Valentine’s Day party activity, or as a gift in your Valentine’s Day cards.  Use as a Mother's Day activity or make a special surprise Mother's Day gift. You can add the name puzzles to your writing center, literacy centers, in morning work or work stations.  They are perfect for small group, independent, or take home name activities.

The puzzles are a great way to add a Valentine theme to your writing center, literacy center, morning work, word work, and ELA work stations in your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, RTI, SPED classroom. 

*Please note that this is a digital product.  You will be able to download the PDF file upon your purchase.  Nothing will be shipped to you.  Due to the nature of digital downloads, your purchase is not refundable.*

This resource is part of the Name Puzzle Bundle.  If you purchase the money-saving bundle, you do not need to purchase this resource.

You do not need to install any special fonts, but you will need the most recent version of Adobe Acrobat Reader for desktop to customize this resource.

**You do not need to install any special fonts, but you will need to use the most recent version of Adobe Acrobat Reader on your laptop or desktop to customize this resource.

✅ WHAT WILL MY KIDS LEARN?

Your kids will love putting their “wiener dog” back together while practicing:

• Name recognition
• How many letters are in their names
• Letter order and letter recognition
• Spelling and sight word practice

✅ WHAT'S INCLUDED?

• 2 styles of dachshund puzzles - (black font & outline letter font for coloring or tracing)
• Editable name labels - (for easy storage in bags or envelopes)
• Works for names (or words) with 2–12 letters.

✅ WHY TEACHERS LOVE IT

Super easy to customize—no special fonts required

Saves time

• You now have the option to paste in a list of names!
• No retyping each student's name!

Flexible - use with:

• names
• sight words
• spelling words

Motivating

• Kids stay engaged
• Who doesn't love dogs?

Perfect for

• bulletin boards
• morning work
• writing/literacy centers
• craft projects

Easy to Customize!

• Select the font (bold or outline)
• Cut and paste a list of names or type your kids' names into the form
• Push a button to generate your custom name puzzle
• Review and print!....it's easy peasy

✅ WHO IS THIS FOR?

This name puzzle activity is perfect for kids in

• Preschool
• Pre-K
• Kindergarten
• SPED
• Homeschool

✅ HOW CAN YOU USE THE NAME PUZZLES?

• Back-to-school name activities
• Pets or animal theme units
• Small groups, independent work, or bulletin board craft
• Any time you want to make name learning more fun!

⚠️⚠️ PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU BUY ⚠️⚠️

This editable resource is designed to be opened and used only in Adobe Acrobat Reader on a laptop or desktop computer. The Adobe Acrobat Reader Mobile app (on phones or tablets) does not support the editable features.

🟢 Perfect For You If…

• You have access to Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer (a free download).
• You’re comfortable following a few simple directions.
• You want a flexible, customizable resource that works exactly as intended.

❌ Not For You If…

• You cannot install Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer (ex: school restrictions).
• You plan to use this on a phone, tablet, or alternative PDF viewer.
• You don’t want to follow the included directions.

👉 Following these steps ensures the resource functions properly and saves us both troubleshooting time.

❓ DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS?

Are you looking for some answers before making a purchase? Or maybe you have some questions about an activity you've already bought. Whatever it may be, feel free to reach out to me HERE. I'd be more than happy to assist you in any way I can.