Grab your preschooler or kindergartener and start tracing capital letters step by step with these free, colorful tracing worksheets! You won’t have to search high and low on multiple website pages; get all 26 letters in one printable PDF!
This free downloadable and printable PDF (an excerpt from my capital-uppercase letter workbook) is made up of 26 worksheets, one for each letter of the English alphabet. Each page has step-by-step tracing for each line of an alphabet letter.
It also has a large letter at the top of each page that shows how to trace each letter. The dots show where to start each stroke, and the arrows show which direction to continue each stroke. The numbers show which stroke to begin with first.
Tips for Getting Started with Your Little Ones
Before getting started on this alphabet adventure, I highly suggest working with your child on how he/she should hold a pencil in his/her hand—which fingers it should sit between and in which direction the pencil should face. (For help with this, you can check out my pencil guides here.)
I also suggest taking your child through a prewriting book or worksheets with straight lines and curves before even beginning to learn how to shape letters.
Moreover, it would be helpful to sing the famous alphabet song we have all grown to love. Sing this with him/her one or more times a week. Kids will learn the alphabet letter names faster this way.
If you’re ready to jump into letter tracing, I encourage you to be a master observer of your child! Make sure that he/she starts each line of each letter in the correct starting position. For example, if a child starts a letter on the bottom line, rather than the top line, he/she may develop a writing habit that later on may cause him/her to write more slowly than other children. Take note of the numbers, dots, arrows, and strokes provided in the large letter at the top of each alphabet page!
Your child is going to rock this! Enjoy!
Note: This document was made to print on US Letter Size paper: 8.5″ x 11″. Also, if you don’t want color and you want to save a little money on ink, you can choose black and white in your printer’s settings!