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Their name, on their wall, with the animals they love
Type the name. Pick an animal for every letter. Print it. That is it. A big bright letter on each sheet, a lion or a rabbit or a whale sitting in front of it, ready to go above the cot, on the bedroom door or along the playroom wall. Or tick one box and the whole lot becomes colouring sheets, which are free.
2. Pick the colours
Sage, sand and dusty blue, with the lion and the elephant. Your animals stay where you put them.
Type a name and the letters appear here, one card each.
Why I made this
Our son has his name on his bedroom wall, one letter per sheet with an animal on each, and he loved them from the day they went up. Finding them took ages, they only came in one style, and we could not choose which animal went with which letter. So I built the thing I wanted: you pick everything, it is ready in a minute, and it costs less than a coffee.
You choose, not us
The name gives you a starting set so you are not looking at a blank page. Then every letter has its own dropdowns: the animal, the little picture behind the letter, the colour. Want an O with a lion and a T with a penguin? Done. Prefer no animals at all? Set them all to none and you have plain, calm letters. Four colour sets to pick from, and the animals stay where you put them when you switch.
Made for little eyes and home printers
Simple shapes, clear colours, big friendly faces. Toddlers go for bold and simple over fiddly every time, and so does an ordinary inkjet, so what you see on the screen is what comes out of the printer.
Colouring sheets for a rainy afternoon
Tick "Make it a colouring sheet" and every card turns into outlines: the letter, the animal, the picture, with "O is for Otis" across the top. A child's own name is the first word they want to colour in. Print a fresh set whenever the last one has been scribbled to bits. They are free.
Questions
- How much is it?
- The colouring sheets are free. The colour banner is 99p a letter, so Otis is £3.96 and even a long double-barrelled name comes in under a tenner. You pay by card on Stripe's secure page (Apple Pay and Google Pay work too), then your cards appear clean and ready to print, and a link to them is emailed to you to keep. Before you buy you can print a free test copy with a watermark to check your printer.
- Do I need to sign up?
- No. No account, no email address, nothing to download or install. Type the name and print.
- What size are they?
- One letter per A4 sheet. If you are in America, tick "fit to page" and they come out on Letter just fine. Print on card, 160gsm or thicker, if you want to cut the letters out and string them up.
- Can I pick the animals myself?
- Yes, that is the whole point. Every letter has a dropdown with 16 animals in it, plus a picture for the background and the colour of the letter. We make a first guess, you change whatever you like.
- Two names? A surname? A date?
- Type both names with a space between them and the banner gets a gap. Surnames, "Welcome", a birthday, an ampersand, up to twenty cards.
- Will it look right on my printer?
- Yes. These are simple flat shapes in clear colours, which is exactly what a home printer is good at. No photos, no gradients, nothing that turns into stripes.
Also in the shop
A name meaning poster: the name, what it means and where it comes from, in four looks, £2.99. Everything in the shop.
Still choosing the name?
Every name has its own page with what it means and how many babies got it last year. The free name finder searches 35,000 names by meaning, origin and popularity, and the game puts two names head to head until one wins. Then come back here.