Kindergarten letters and writing worksheets
Free printable alphabet and handwriting worksheets for kindergarten: capitals and lowercase, ABC order, first sounds, tracing letters, numbers and a child's name, writing sentences, and the cutting, mazes and drawing that get small hands ready to write. Every sheet comes from a tool, so you pick the letters and print a new sheet each time.
Where to start
- Warm up the hand: Line tracing, Shape tracing, Cutting practice.
- Learn the letters and their sounds: Letter matching, Letter hunt, First letters.
- Trace and write: Handwriting, Name tracing.
- Put the alphabet in order, then write whole sentences: ABC order, Sentence tracing.
Letters
Match capitals and lowercase, find a letter among look-alikes, put the alphabet in order and hear the first sound of a word.
First lettersSay the picture, trace its first letter. Capital or lowercase.
Letter matchingDraw a line from each capital letter to its lowercase letter.
ABC orderWrite the missing letters in a row of the alphabet: A B _ D E.
Letter huntColor every b in a grid of look-alike letters, then write how many you found.
Writing
Trace letters and numbers on handwriting lines, a child's own name, short sentences, and the lines and shapes that come before letters.
HandwritingTrace capital and lowercase letters on handwriting lines, then write them alone.
Sentence tracingRead a short sentence next to its picture, trace it on dotted lines, then write it.
Line tracingTrace dotted lines from a dot to a star: straight, zigzag, waves, bumps, loops.
Shape tracingTrace circles, squares, stars and hearts on dotted lines, then draw your own.
Name tracingType a child's name and trace it on handwriting lines.
Hands & eyes
Cutting, copying a picture on dots, mazes, symmetry, spot the difference, picture puzzles and shadow matching.
Cutting practiceCut along straight, zigzag, wavy and curly dashed lines from the scissors to the picture.
Copy the pictureCopy a picture made of lines onto an empty grid of dots: a house, a boat, a star.
MazesDraw a path through the maze from the start to the end. Easy, medium or hard.
SymmetryHalf of a picture is colored on a grid: color the other half to match it.
Spot the differenceTwo pictures, a few things changed in the bottom one: find the 3, 4 or 5 differences and circle them.
Picture puzzleCut out the pieces and glue them in the frame to make the picture. 4 or 6 pieces.
Shadow matchDraw a line from each picture to its shadow. The first pair is done as an example.
A page for every letter
Trace the capital and the lowercase, then circle the pictures that start with it.
Letters & writing worksheet packs
A whole set of sheets in one PDF, ready to print.
- Letters A to ZTrace every letter, then find the pictures that start with it.
- First lettersSay the picture, trace its first letter. Capital or lowercase.
- Letter matchingDraw a line from each capital letter to its lowercase letter.
- ABC orderWrite the missing letters in a row of the alphabet.
- Line tracingTrace dotted lines: straight, zigzags, waves, bumps and loops.
- Shadow matchDraw a line from each picture to its shadow.
Guides for parents and teachers
What to teach first, how to help, when to move on.