Letter S Coloring Pages

The letter is drawn properly

Every S on these pages is set from a real typeface and outlined exactly, not sketched. It is the hardest letter in the alphabet to draw freehand — a hand-drawn S goes lopsided almost every time — so having the true curve to colour inside is worth more here than on most letters.

Twelve things beginning with S

Sandwich, seal, sheep, ship, snail, snake, sock, spider, squirrel, star, strawberry and sun. 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 S things — with a sandcastle, scissors, a seahorse, a seashell, a skateboard, a sunflower and a swing joining them.

Nothing arrives filled in

A spider is normally a solid black body, a sheep a white fleece on black legs, a snake a pattern of dark bands and a strawberry a dark fruit speckled with darker seeds. None of them are here — the spider is an outline you can colour any colour you like, every hoof is an open shape, the snake's markings are six empty diamonds and all sixteen strawberry seeds are little open teardrops.

Which page to start with

The big uppercase S and the big lowercase s are the simplest — one huge shape each. The bubble letter and the sheet of mixed letters to hunt through come next. The patterned S, 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.