Nothing says “back to school” quite like a bright yellow school bus! Kick off the school year with a fun and engaging school bus craft that helps students practice sequencing the letters in their names. Along with this name craft, students will learn an interactive name poem where they practice identifying the beginning letter or number of letters in their name. Use this name song on the first day of school to help students learn each others’ names!

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School Bus Craft Prep

This school bus craft is super simple to prep!

First, choose to complete the craft with or without the road and background.

Next, copy the bus on yellow construction paper, the wheels on black construction paper, the stop sign on red construction paper, and the bumper on gray construction paper. If you are including the road, copy this on gray construction paper as well.

There is also a print and color option available!

In Adobe Reader, you will type each student’s name before copying the windows on blue or white construction paper.

With Adobe Reader opened, you will also want to type each student’s name on the yellow buses which will be used with “The Name on the Bus” song.

There are two additional student response pages that go with this craft. Type in the students names for the “I Can Trace My Name” sheet before printing.

This is also a great time to print out the pocket chart cards for the poem.

The Name on the Bus Song

Before completing our school bus craft, I like to practice singing “The Name on the Bus” song using the interactive pocket chart cards that are included in this pack.

As we sing this song, we change the cards to reflect a particular student’s name. It may take us a few days to get to all of our friends, but this interactive poem is a great way to reinforce letter and sound recognition, as well as to practice identifying the beginning letter of our names and counting the letters in our names.

You can even choose to sing both verses, or alternate verses from one day to the next. I promise that your kiddos will get so excited to hear their name featured in the poem!

School Bus Craft Directions

After singing “The Name on the Bus” song across several days, we are ready to make our school bus craft!

I like to carefully model each step as we make our name craft together. First, we glue the road to the blue construction paper.

Next, we glue the bus and fenders onto the blue construction paper before adding the bumper, stop sign, and tires.

Then, we write our name on the line and the number of letters in our name inside the stop sign.

Finally, we add our name to the bus by sequencing the windows in the correct order. I like to demonstrate how to evenly space the windows so our names span the length of the bus. Depending on how many letters are in our name will determine how close or far apart we will glue each letter.

Once our school bus craft is complete, we display our work in our classroom or as a bulletin board display!

School Bus Craft

Grab this school bus craft, name on the bus song, and thirty-four additional name crafts and activities, here!

More Name Crafts and Activities

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For a full list of name crafts, check out this post!

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