Letter P Coloring Page

P is for penguin. 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

Pp

is for Penguin

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Your settings carry over to every other letter, so a full A–Z set comes out matching.

Which letters

Letter style

Outline thickness

Doodles

Extras

P is for Penguin

PpPENGUIN
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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 P

The sound it makes

A short pop of air with the lips: "p" as in penguin. Hold a scrap of paper in front of the mouth and it moves.

How the letter is formed

Straight down, well below the baseline, back up to the top, then round to the right and into the middle.

What it gets confused with

Reversed with "q", the same way b and d are. P is the one that appears in far more words, which is a useful tiebreaker.

Words that start with P

penguin pig pizza purple parrot

The stem of the lowercase p goes below the line while the bowl stays above it. Worth saying out loud: children often draw it sitting on the line like a b.

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 Pp 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 P with the guide lines in the right places.

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