Free · print at home · ages 3 to 5
Letter N worksheets and tracing
One short leg and one hump: the letter shaking its head under the napkin.
“There is n, shaking its little head. No more hiding!”
Watch it write itself
See n 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 N 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 n and N, 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 n
- Start at the green dot on the middle line. Go straight down to the base line.
- Dot 2, on that line between the middle line and the base line: go up and over in a hump, then straight down to the base line.
Capital N
- Start at the green dot on the top line. Go straight down to the base line.
- Dot 2: from the top of the line, slant down to the right, all the way to the base line. Then, without lifting the pencil, go straight up to the top line.
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Letter N tracing worksheets and coloring page
Five sheets for N and n: tracing the capital and the small letter, the small n only, the capital N only, a coloring page and a find every n page. US Letter and A4, black and white first, then color.
Letter N n tracing worksheet
N and n on the road with arrows, then fainter, then from the dots alone. Then the word napkin.
1 page · PDF
Small n only
Four rows of n, from the road to the dots alone. Then the word napkin.
1 page · PDF
Capital N only
Four rows of N, from the road to the dots alone, and a line to write on.
1 page · PDF
Letter N coloring page
A big N and n with eyes to color, and a box to draw the napkin it hides in.
1 page · PDF · black and white
Find every n
A page of letters, many of them look-alikes. Color every n, 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 N
Everyday things a child can carry to school for letter N day. The first one is where n hides in our book.
- necklace
- notebook
- nickel
- newspaper
- noodlesdry ones, in a bag
- neta butterfly net
- nightlight
- nectarine
- name tag
- nutcrackera wooden toy one
- number puzzle
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 folded napkin, between the pages of a notebook, or under the newspaper.
- Say the sound together, as the book does: “n, n, n... Where can n be?” When your child finds it, they trace it with a finger and shout “Got you, little n!”
Animals
Animals that start with N
Tap one with an arrow to meet it on our dinosaur pages.
- newt
- nightingale
- narwhala whale with one long tusk
- nurse shark
- Nile crocodile
- nuthatcha bird that can walk down a tree headfirst
- numbatan Australian animal that eats termites
- nautilusa sea animal that lives in a spiral shell
- nenea goose from Hawaii
- nightcrawlera big earthworm
- Nodosaurusan armored dinosaur with no club on its tail
Questions
Grown-ups ask
- How do you write a lowercase n?
- Start on the middle line and go straight down. Then start again on that line, between the middle line and the base line, go up and over in a hump, and straight down. One hump, two legs.
- What starts with N for show and tell?
- A folded napkin (that's where n hides in our book), a necklace, a notebook, a nickel, a nightlight or a nectarine.
- What animals start with N?
- Newt, narwhal, nightingale, nurse shark, numbat and nuthatch. And Nodosaurus, an armored dinosaur with no club on its tail.
More letters
Our own book
Catch the Letters! A Bedtime Alphabet Book
By Katia Sunn · for grown-ups · coming soon
In the book, n hides in the napkin. 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.