Letter S Coloring Page

S is for sun. 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

Ss

is for Sun

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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

S is for Sun

SsSUN
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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 S

The sound it makes

A hiss you can hold: "sss" as in sun and snake. Along with m, f and l, one of the easiest sounds to stretch and blend.

How the letter is formed

Start at the top, curve back to the left, then down and round the other way. Two curves meeting in the middle.

What it gets confused with

Very commonly written back to front. Reversals of S are normal well into the fifth year.

Words that start with S

sun snake star sock strawberry

Trace the S shape in the air with a finger before the crayons come out. The double curve is a movement, and children who have felt it reverse it less.

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 Ss 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 S with the guide lines in the right places.

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