Free · print at home · ages 3 to 5
Letter G worksheets and tracing
A circle with a curly tail that hangs below the line. It hides in a glove.
“Something curly swings from inside. It's g!”
Watch it write itself
See g write itself
It starts at the green dot and goes the way the arrows go, in the same order your child traces it. Press Slowly and follow it with a finger.
Tap G to see the capital write itself too.
On a phone or tablet, Bring it into your room puts the letter on your floor or table, through the camera. No app to install.
How to write it
How to write g and G, in words
One line for each stroke, to read aloud while your child traces. On the sheets: the top line, the dashed middle line, and the base line, where the letters sit. If your child's school uses a different style, follow the school.
Small g
- Start at the green dot, just under the middle line on the right. Go up and round to the left, down to the base line, and back up to the dot, as for a.
- Dot 2: go straight down the right side, past the base line, and curl round to the left at the bottom.
Capital G
- Start at the green dot, just under the top line on the right. Go up and round to the left, down to the base line, round the bottom and up to the middle line. Then, without lifting the pencil, go straight in to the left.
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Letter G tracing worksheets and coloring page
Five sheets for G and g: tracing the capital and the small letter, the small g only, the capital G only, a coloring page and a find every g page. US Letter and A4, black and white first, then color.
Letter G g tracing worksheet
G and g on the road with arrows, then fainter, then from the dots alone. Then the word glove.
1 page · PDF
Small g only
Four rows of g, from the road to the dots alone. Then the word glove.
1 page · PDF
Capital G only
Four rows of G, from the road to the dots alone, and a line to write on.
1 page · PDF
Letter G coloring page
A big G and g with eyes to color, and a box to draw the glove it hides in.
1 page · PDF · black and white
Find every g
A page of letters, many of them look-alikes. Color every g, then count them. The answer is upside down.
1 page · PDF · black and white
Free for home and classroom use. To pass them on, please share the link to this page and not the file. The whole alphabet at once (the ABC chart, the A to Z tracing booklet and the desk strip) is on the alphabet page.
For show and tell
Things that start with G
Everyday things a child can carry to school for letter G day. The first one is where g hides in our book.
- gamea small board game
- guitara toy one
- glue stick
- globe
- goggles
- grapes
- glasses
- golf ball
- giftwrapped up
- garlic
- gourda little one, in the fall
The book's game, with no screen
- Print the letter. The coloring page works well: your child colors it first, then it goes into hiding.
- While nobody is looking, hide it in something that starts with its sound: inside a glove, under a game box, or in a gift bag.
- Say the sound together, as the book does: “g, g, g... Where can g be?” When your child finds it, they trace it with a finger and shout “Got you, little g!”
Animals
Animals that start with G
Tap one with an arrow to meet it on our dinosaur pages.
- giraffe
- gorilla
- goat
- goose
- goldfish
- gecko
- grasshopper
- guinea pig
- gerbil
- gazelle
- Giganotosaurusa giant meat-eating dinosaur
Good to know
Why does g look different in books?
In many printed books the small g has two round parts, one on top of the other, joined by a little link.
Children write the simple one: a circle, then a straight line down with a hook below the line. That is the g on our sheets and in our book.
Your child will read both and write one. Point them out side by side, so the printed g isn't a stranger.
Questions
Grown-ups ask
- How do you write a lowercase g?
- Make a circle the way you start an a. Then go straight down the right side, past the base line, and curl round to the left at the bottom. It's one of the letters that hang below the line.
- What sound does g make?
- Usually the hard sound, as in glove, goat and game. Sometimes a soft one, as in giraffe and gem, which sounds like j. For the hiding game, stick to the hard g.
- What starts with G for show and tell?
- A glove (where g hides in our book), a small game, a glue stick, goggles, grapes, a golf ball or a little gourd in the fall.
More letters
Our own book
Catch the Letters! A Bedtime Alphabet Book
By Katia Sunn · for grown-ups · coming soon
In the book, g hides in the glove. Your child finds it, traces it with a finger, and catches it. Every letter hides somewhere in the house, inside a thing that starts with its sound.
Every letter page has a code: scan it with a phone or tablet and the letter comes into your room.