Color by Letter Spring Worksheets

Every square holds a letter pair such as Rr, and the key gives each pair a crayon.

Sample list: Letters in rain. Type or paste your own letters to replace it.

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Color by letter: Hyacinth

Read the letter in each square, then color it by the key. Aa means leave the square white.

AaAaAaAaAaRrRrAaAaAaAaAa
AaAaAaAaRrRrRrRrAaAaAaAa
AaAaAaRrRrAaRrRrRrAaAaAa
AaAaAaRrRrRrRrAaRrAaAaAa
AaAaAaRrAaRrRrRrRrAaAaAa
AaAaAaRrRrRrAaRrRrAaAaAa
AaAaAaAaRrRrRrRrAaAaAaAa
NnAaAaAaAaNnNnAaAaAaAaNn
NnNnAaAaAaNnNnAaAaAaNnNn
AaNnNnAaAaNnNnAaAaNnNnAa
AaAaNnNnNnNnNnNnNnNnAaAa
IiIiIiIiIiIiIiIiIiIiIiIi

To color on screen, choose a color in the key, then tap the squares.

Hyacinth, 12 by 12, 3 colors, 4 letters in the list.

Answer key: prints on page 2.

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Pictures, with the letters each one takes
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One for each color, so type at least as many letters as the picture has colors. Up to 40, of 8 letters or fewer. Saved in this browser only.

The link carries the picture and the settings, never your letters.

Print gives a blank worksheet, and the colored answer key on page 2 when that box is ticked. Colors you fill in on screen stay on screen. By keyboard: the arrow keys move around the grid, Enter colors a square and Backspace clears it.

Next step Color a rainbow by plain numbersSort out b, d, p and q on a sheet

All 8 pictures

In the garden 4

  • Greenhouse A greenhouse with a gray frame, light blue glass and green plants along the floor. Only the corners beside the roof stay white, so it has the most squares to color on this page. Easy 12 by 12, 114 squares to color: gray 54, light blue 40, green 20. Detailed 16 by 16, 200 squares to color: gray 74, light blue 93, green 33.
  • Hyacinth A purple hyacinth on a green stem with two long leaves, standing in brown soil. A few white squares sit inside the bloom. Easy 12 by 12, 66 squares to color: purple 30, green 24, brown 12. Detailed 16 by 16, 105 squares to color: purple 53, green 36, brown 16.
  • Seed packet A yellow seed packet with a green band across the top and a red flower on its white label. Easy 12 by 12, 89 squares to color: yellow 62, green 15, red 12. Detailed 16 by 16, 156 squares to color: yellow 88, green 44, red 24.
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In the garden, continued

  • Window box A brown window box with three red flowers on green stems. Easy 12 by 12, 96 squares to color: red 18, green 30, brown 48. Detailed 16 by 16, 162 squares to color: red 24, green 52, brown 86.

Outdoors 4

  • Blossom branch A brown branch with four pink blossoms and one green leaf. The leaf is the smallest patch of color on this page. Easy 12 by 12, 63 squares to color: brown 23, pink 35, green 5. Detailed 16 by 16, 99 squares to color: brown 43, pink 48, green 8.
  • Hopscotch A hopscotch court in pink, yellow and light blue chalk. Each box is one block of color, so the same letter repeats side by side. Easy 12 by 12, 96 squares to color: pink 36, yellow 24, light blue 36. Detailed 16 by 16, 156 squares to color: pink 60, yellow 48, light blue 48.
  • Maypole A maypole: a brown pole with pink and blue ribbons running down from the top. Easy 12 by 12, 66 squares to color: brown 24, pink 21, blue 21. Detailed 16 by 16, 94 squares to color: brown 32, pink 31, blue 31.
  • Swing set A red swing set with a blue swing, standing on green grass. Easy 12 by 12, 72 squares to color: red 32, blue 16, green 24. Detailed 16 by 16, 138 squares to color: red 80, blue 26, green 32.

How this list was compiled: Own original pixel pictures, drawn square by square for this page on 12 by 12 and 16 by 16 grids. Every picture has exactly 3 colors, so 4 letters fill a sheet: one for each color and one for the white squares. The descriptions say what is drawn and make no claim about the real plant or object. Licence: own work

All 16 letters

Letters in rain 4

  • Aa The capital is a tent with a crossbar. The small letter is a ball and a stick, or a bowl under a roof in many printed fonts. In rain and plant.
  • Ii The capital is a tall stick, with a bar at the top and the foot in some fonts. The small letter is short and has a dot. In rain, spring and robin.
  • Nn The capital has a slanting line between two sticks. The small letter is one hump. In rain, spring, plant, pond and robin.
  • Rr The capital has a loop and a leg. The small letter is a short stick with an arm. In rain, spring, sprout, frog and robin.
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Letters in spring 3

  • Gg The capital is a C with a bar. The small letter is a ball with a tail below the line. In spring and frog.
  • Pp One shape in two sizes, but the small letter hangs below the line. In spring, plant, sprout and pond.
  • Ss One shape in two sizes: a double curve. In spring and sprout.

Letters in plant 2

  • Ll The capital has a foot to the right. The small letter is a plain tall stick. In plant.
  • Tt The capital is a stick under a flat top. The small letter is crossed lower down. In plant and sprout.

Letters in sprout 2

  • Oo One shape in two sizes: a closed ring. In sprout, frog, pond and robin.
  • Uu Nearly one shape in two sizes: a cup that opens upward. In sprout and duck.

Letters in frog 1

  • Ff The capital has two arms. The small letter has a hook at the top and a crossbar. In frog.

Letters in pond 1

  • Dd The capital has its curve to the right of the stick. The small letter has its ball to the left. In pond and duck.

Letters in robin 1

  • Bb The capital has two bumps on its stick. The small letter has one ball. In robin.

Letters in duck 2

  • Cc One shape in two sizes: an open curve. In duck.
  • Kk Nearly one shape in two sizes: a stick with two slanting arms. In duck.

How this list was compiled: Our own lists: the letters of eight spring words (rain, spring, plant, sprout, frog, pond, robin, duck), each written as its capital and small letter together. The notes describe the usual printed shapes; the exact shapes of a, g, l and t depend on the font of the device that prints the sheet. Licence: own work

How it works

These color by letter spring worksheets open on a Hyacinth with Rr, Aa, Ii and Nn in its squares, the letters of rain. Eight spring pictures and eight letter lists print on Letter or A4 with a key.

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A capital and a small letter in every square

A square holds a pair such as Rr and the key gives the pair one color, so a child reads both forms of a letter each time. Every picture has 3 colors, so a sheet takes 4 pairs: one for each color and one for the white squares.

Eight lists spelled from spring words

The lists are the letters of rain, spring, plant, sprout, frog, pond, robin and duck: 16 letters between them. In rain, no small letter looks like its capital. In duck, U, C and K keep their shape and only D changes, so start there with a class new to small letters.

  • The Hopscotch is made of big blocks of one pair. The Blossom branch hides one pair in only 5 green squares at 12 by 12.
  • Spring and sprout have 6 letters, so each sheet takes 4 of the 6 pairs and Shuffle the letters deals another 4.
  • For capitals alone, type R A I N in the Your letters box. They print as typed.

Questions and answers

Can a capital and its small letter have different colors?

No. B and b count as one letter here, so the second one typed is left out as a repeat. That is why these sheets print the two together as Bb, with one color for the pair.

Which spring sheet is easiest for preschool or kindergarten?

The Blossom branch has the fewest squares to color at 12 by 12, 63, where the Greenhouse has 114. Print it with the duck list.

Can I use my own letters on a spring picture?

Yes. Type them in the Your letters box with spaces between: single letters, pairs such as Tt, or two-letter sounds such as sh. Four entries fill any picture here. Typed letters stay in this browser.

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