Free Printable Alphabet Coloring Pages for Kids

Alphabet Coloring Pages

I love the simplicity of our alphabet coloring pages. You can print them in bulk, organize them by letter, and they become an on-demand independent activity! It’s easy to vary because kids can explore different letters or different mediums, like crayons, markers, colored pencils, or even paints and do-a-dot markers. The alphabet coloring pages are a super companion to many of our other alphabet activities and printables. In fact, we have a whole set (A-Z) of worksheet packs for each letter of the alphabet, beginning with our free printable Letter A Alphabet Worksheets.

Hands-on learning gives toddlers and preschoolers the chance to engage all of their senses as they begin to form a foundation for these weird (to them) shapes that each have a unique name and sound.

Materials You Will Need for the Alphabet Coloring Pages:

• Printer
• Paper
• Crayons

How to Prep and Use the Coloring Pages

Step One:

Click below to download the printable. Then, print! That’s it! Use regular printer paper, or cardstock, depending on how you want to implement the activity.

Step Two:

Provide your child/children with crayons or another coloring tool and let them get creative!

Other Ways To Use These Alphabet Coloring Pages:

• Cut out the letters (another great fine motor activity!) and paste each set of uppercase and lowercase letters onto pieces of construction paper.  Help your little one find pictures from magazines to cut out and paste them onto the construction paper.  Put all the pages together to make a letter scrapbook!
• If your little one isn’t into coloring let them fill in the letters with stickers, erasers, or trace the patterns with glue and sprinkle glitter on them!
• Laminate the coloring pages after your little one colors them!  Hole punch the corner and put them on a ring for an adorable alphabet book!
• Cut the letters out individually and use them for a matching game!
• Play a letter recognition game!  Put out three or four of the letters onto the table.  Have your little one select the letter that you call out from the letters displayed on the table!  Add or take away cards to differentiate and make the game easier or harder!

Awesome, What’s Next?

You can keep this activity as a free-for-all, meaning kids choose a page, color, and toss/send home. Or, you can introduce the letters in ABC order and bind them into a book for each student. Then, the book becomes a handy dandy reference (created by the child), for reviewing each letter as you continue to learn letter names and sounds.

Ways to Differentiate the Alphabet Coloring Pages

1. Add Visual Aids and Examples

Modification: Include pictures of objects that start with the corresponding letter on each page.

Benefit: Helps children associate the letter with familiar objects, enhancing letter recognition and vocabulary.

2. Incorporate Tracing Activities

Modification: Add dotted lines inside the large uppercase and lowercase letters for tracing.

Benefit: Supports fine motor development and helps children learn the correct way to form letters.

3. Use Multi-Sensory Materials

Modification: Provide materials such as glitter glue, sandpaper letters, or textured crayons.

Benefit: Engages multiple senses, making the activity more interactive and helping children with sensory processing needs.

4. Color-by-Number or Letter

Modification: Create a color-by-number or color-by-letter version of the pages, where different sections of the letters are labeled with numbers or letters corresponding to specific colors.

Benefit: Reinforces number or letter recognition and adds an additional cognitive challenge.

5. Include Writing Practice

Modification: Add lines or boxes at the bottom of the page for children to practice writing the uppercase and lowercase letters on their own.

Benefit: Provides an opportunity for writing practice, reinforcing letter formation and handwriting skills.

6. Offer Differentiated Instructions

Modification: Provide simple instructions for younger toddlers, like “Color the letter A,” and more complex tasks for older preschoolers, like “Color the letter A and draw three objects that start with A.”

Benefit: Tailors the difficulty level to the child’s developmental stage, ensuring that each child is appropriately challenged.

More Ways to Explore the Alphabet

Of course, coloring pages are not the only way to really engage preschoolers with learning the alphabet. Try some of our other hands-on learning tasks, like these Uppercase Letters Pattern Block Mats.

Frequently Asked Questions

These are frequently asked questions about our printable alphabet coloring pages.

Interested in more activities to introduce the alphabet? Look at all the themes we’ve created with our Alphabet Spin & Stamp activities:

• Bee Spin & Stamp
• Detective Theme Alphabet Activities
• Valentine Spin & Stamp
• Ocean Theme Spin & Stamp

Each page of our alphabet coloring pages includes both the uppercase and lowercase letter with a fun design for your little ones to color! Your child will love creating colorful letters with these free printable coloring pages for kids!

Staying in the lines and coloring the design details are both great practice for fine motor skills.

How Do I Teach The Letters Of The Alphabet?

Teaching your preschooler the alphabet may seem like an overwhelming task!    

Don’t worry, you’ve got this!  Just keep it fun and simple!

• One of the best things you can do is read and look at books with your little learner!
• Keep the activities multi-sensory. Sing and listen to songs about letters, trace letters with your fingers, and talk about the letters you see on signs!
• Labeling objects in your house with words on index cards can help little ones be surrounded by words and letters!
• Play with manipulatives like wooden letters, magnetic letters, letter stamps, and foam letters. 
• Get creative with your letters!  Incorporate letters into your arts and crafts time! Start with our Printable Letter A Craft.
• Pique your child’s interest by helping them learn to spell their name, or even just learn the first letter of their name to start with! This customizable name spelling game is so much fun!

Using the Alphabet Coloring Pages

Once your print and duplicate the pages according to your needs, you can use the pages in a variety of different ways!

Introduce your “Letter of the Week” each week by using the coloring page as an early morning starter. Place the coloring pages at the literacy center for independent exploration. Print the letter pages on colored paper, laminate, and use with an alphabet sensory bin activity, like fishing for plastic letters and placing them on the correct mat.

As you can see, you can get A LOT of miles out of this one simple printable. Be as creative as you’d like to be and remember that repetition is key when you’re teaching little ones about the alphabet, so they will not quickly tire of the same printable used in different ways.

A-Z Alphabet Coloring Pages

Now that you’ve downloaded and printed these awesome alphabet coloring pages, let us know how it went! Did you use it at a center? Time-filler? Whole-class activity?

More Color Activities for Kids

• Color By Number Worksheets
• Alphabet Color and Trace Worksheets
• Letter A Worksheets
• Alphabet Mini Books
• Easter Alphabet I Spy Coloring Pages

Alphabet Printables for Kids:

• Alphabet Handwriting Practice Pages
• Letter Craft: A is for Alligator
• Uppercase Alphabet Tracing Pages
• 100+ Alphabet Activities for Kids