Letter Y Coloring Page

Y is for yo-yo. 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

Yy

is for Yo-yo

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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

Y is for Yo-yo

YyYO-YO
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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 Y

The sound it makes

"y" as in yellow at the start of a word. At the end it usually turns into a vowel, as in happy and baby.

How the letter is formed

A diagonal in to the middle, then a longer diagonal down through it and below the line.

Words that start with Y

yellow yo-yo yacht yawn yoghurt

Another letter that drops below the baseline. Yellow is the natural colour to reach for and the natural word to teach it with.

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 Yy 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 Y with the guide lines in the right places.

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