Letter R Coloring Pages

The letter is drawn properly

Every R on these pages is set from a real typeface and outlined exactly, not sketched. On a page whose job is to teach a child a letter, the shape has to be the right shape — a stem, a closed bowl at the top and one straight leg kicking out below, with a line thick enough to colour inside.

Twelve things beginning with R

Rabbit, rainbow, robot, rocket, ring, rose, rhino, rain, ruler, rug, radish and raspberry. Each is drawn large below the letter, 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 R things — with a rooster, a ribbon, a rake, a racket, a raft, a robin, a rope and a roller skate joining them.

Nothing arrives filled in

A rainbow is normally seven bands of solid colour, raspberries a dark clustered mass, a rhino a solid grey animal and a rocket a bright flame against a black sky. None of them are here — every band of the rainbow is empty white paper, each berry is a dozen separate beads you could count, and the sky behind the rocket is left blank.

Which page to start with

The big uppercase R and the big lowercase r are the simplest — one huge shape each. The bubble letter and the sheet of mixed letters to hunt through come next. The patterned R, divided into bands of lattice, scallops and rings, will hold an older child or an adult, and so will the rug, whose border and field are a pattern from edge to edge.

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.