Letter L Coloring Page

L is for lion. Print the capital and lowercase together as big hollow letters to colour in, or one at a time. Choose the letter style, the outline thickness and the doodles, then print. Free, no account, no watermark.

Letter

Ll

is for Lion

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Which letters

Letter style

Outline thickness

Doodles

Extras

L is for Lion

LlLION
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Tip: print the capital and lowercase together while a child is learning that they are the same letter. Switch to one at a time once that has landed.

Teaching the Letter L

The sound it makes

A long "lll" you can hold, tongue behind the top teeth.

How the letter is formed

One straight line from top to baseline. The simplest letter to write in the whole alphabet.

What it gets confused with

Lowercase l against capital I and the digit 1. If a child is muddling them, the Bubble style separates them best.

Words that start with L

lion leaf ladder lamp ladybird

One long shape and nothing else, so this is the sheet for practising a single even colour without gaps. Harder than it sounds, and a genuinely useful pencil-control exercise.

Colouring a letter is not handwriting practice, and it is not meant to be. What it does is buy time: a child spends ten quiet minutes with the shape of Ll in front of them and comes away recognising it, which is the step that has to happen before a pencil is any use. When they are ready to form the letter themselves, the handwriting worksheet generator builds a tracing sheet for L with the guide lines in the right places.

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