My son can name most of the letters that form his name, and if he sees his name written somewhere he can recognise it (saying that he can read would be exaggerating it a bit). Unfortunately he is not a very talented artist (like Esther’s daughter is) and we are lagging a bit behind in writing and drawing. But he is perfectly excused — I can’t draw either.
However, he has recently made a big improvement thanks to a clever idea by the Little Stamp Company which makes professional, self-inking stamps with your child’s name written in a large dotted font.
After the initial excitement about such a grown-up looking stamp with which he stamped his name on every piece of paper he got hold of, my son started to enjoy joining the dots to be able to write his own name. He is still far away from being able to write it by himself, but I think he is slowly learning the shape of each letter. I’m sure one of these days he will surprise me!
A suggestion I was given is to encourage your child to trace the lines from top to bottom and from left to right for proper letter formation, unless he is left handed (like me)!

-Michela