Letter A Coloring Pages

The letter is drawn properly

Every A on these pages is set from a real typeface and outlined exactly, not sketched. That matters more here than anywhere else on this site: a page whose job is to teach a child the shape of a letter has to show the right shape, with the crossbar in the right place and the counter — the triangle in the middle — big enough to colour.

Twelve things beginning with A

Apple, ant, alligator, acorn, anchor, aeroplane, avocado, astronaut, ambulance, alpaca, axolotl and abacus. Each is drawn large in the lower two thirds of the page with the uppercase and lowercase letter above it, so the sound and the shape are learned together. There is a thirteenth page setting all twelve out in a grid, and a doodle sheet of twenty small A things.

Nothing arrives filled in

An ant is normally a solid black insect, an avocado stone a dark ball, an astronaut's visor a mirrored dome and an abacus's beads solid discs. None of them are here. The alpaca's fleece is thirty-five open curls and the axolotl's gills are separate fronds rather than a dark plume, so the fiddly bits are the fun ones rather than the lost ones.

Which page to start with

The big uppercase A and the big lowercase a are the simplest — one huge shape each, with a line thick enough for a crayon. The bubble letter and the sheet of mixed letters to hunt through come next. The patterned A, divided into bands of lattice, scallops and rings, will hold an older child or an adult.

Printing

Print at 100% scale rather than “fit to page”, and match the file to your paper — Letter or A4. The button at the top bundles all twenty into a single download.