Letter Y Coloring Pages

The letter is drawn properly

Every Y on these pages is set from a real typeface and outlined exactly, not sketched. The capital is two arms meeting a stem; the lowercase drops below the line with a tail, and the two are worth learning side by side because that descender is the only thing that separates them.

Twelve things beginning with Y

Yak, yacht, yolk, yarn, yo-yo, yeti, yam, yogurt, yawn, yard, yoga and yurt. 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 Y things — with a yucca, a yule log, a yodeller, a duckling, a sprig of yew and a loaf of bread joining them.

Nothing arrives filled in

A yak is normally a huge animal under a long black coat, an egg yolk a solid yellow dome, a yawning kitten a wide dark mouth and a yam a dark purple root. None of them are here — the yak's coat is twenty-five separate hanging locks you could count, the yolk is an open circle, the kitten's mouth is white paper with a tongue drawn in it, and the yam is left blank for whatever colour you like.

Which page to start with

The big uppercase Y and the big lowercase y are the simplest — one huge shape each. The bubble letter and the sheet of mixed letters to hunt through come next. The patterned Y, divided into bands of lattice, scallops and rings, will hold an older child or an adult, and so will the yurt, whose roof and wall are covered in pattern.

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.