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Looking for beginning sounds worksheets?  Try these fun coloring pages!

These FREE beginning sounds coloring pages are a great beginning sounds activity for preschool or kindergarten.

A year and a half ago, I created beginning sounds coloring pages for my Three, who was almost four years old.  Since he loved to color and had a pretty good handle on beginning sounds, I thought he’d enjoy a set of alphabet coloring pages.

Now that little boy is my five-year-old.  He’s far past beginning sounds and is reading books like this one as a kindergartner.

But he has a little brother. 🙂

So I updated the pages with funny face letters and better clip art.  Plus, I added an uppercase set.  We love them, and I hope you will too!

These FREE beginning sounds coloring pages are a great beginning sounds activity for preschool or kindergarten.

Our current Three (he’ll be four in a few months) recognizes all his letters and is pretty good at naming their sounds.  He is happy to do one or two of these pages at a time.

These FREE beginning sounds coloring pages are a great beginning sounds activity for preschool or kindergarten.

When we do these coloring pages, he looks at the letter and says its sound.  Then he names each picture.  “Snake. /s/, /s/, snake. No, that doesn’t say uh.  Underwear.  /u/, /u/, underwear.  Yes!”

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Let me give my standard disclaimer and say that I don’t think you should make worksheets the main part of your instruction with young kids.  I suggest using these pages after your child has mastered beginning sounds, or do them alongside your child as you talk about the beginning sounds together.

These FREE beginning sounds coloring pages are a great beginning sounds activity for preschool or kindergarten.

This is what my original set looked like.  When my older son did these as a young preschooler, he wanted to color all the pictures.   I didn’t expect him to do the pages any certain way as he was so young.  But when he was close to four, I told him he needed to first color the pictures that began with a certain sound.  Then he could color the rest of the pictures if he wanted.

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215 Comments

  1. Cara

    I have turned off my ad blocker and closed out and refreshed and I still can’t get the download for the beginning sound coloring pages 🙁 I’m sorry, would you mind emailing them to me, please?

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  2. Judy

    I must be doing something wrong. I’ve tried to download the free-beginning-sounds-coloring-pages multiple times with no success. I’ve looked in the “junk” folder as well as the inbox and it just isn’t there. Hope you have an idea.

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    • Kate Dowling

      Hi Judy!

      This is Kate, Anna’s assistant. I’m so sorry you had trouble with the links! I just tested it and it worked perfectly. Please be sure that your ad blocker is turned off for Anna’s website. Then refresh your page. This will ensure that all links including the download box are “clickable.” If you still have trouble, please send an email to anna (at) the measured mom (dot) com and write: “Attention: Kate.” I’ll take care of you. Thanks!

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    • Kate Dowling

      Hello Akhtar!
      This is Kate, Anna’s assistant. The links are two green boxes in the post above. One green box is for uppercase letters, and one is for lowercase. If those boxes are not clickable, you need to turn off your adblocker. Thanks!

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  6. Gail

    Great resources! i teach a K-3 program that is virtually self contained with every thing needed. There are still times that I want/need to supplement some with my own worksheets, etc. (Like today so wished I had seen this yesterday!) Looking forward to gleaning more from you and using your materials.

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  7. Anne Marie

    Hi-

    I enjoyed using your original version of this resource this past school year. I discovered I somehow am missing the “y” page. Is there anywhere that I can find the original version rather than the funny face version?

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  8. Debra

    Could I please have the original lowercase coloring page set? I previously copied a – d. My 23 students are at this level. We used a and b already. The majority of my are 4 years old now. The older set has less pictures, which is perfect for them than the new ones. We are doing one letter a letter week, second round and the old set a and b. They also enjoy your new cutting page, 4 pictures that begin with that letter and 1 does not. I enjoy your website, read your article and have used Learning The Alphabet Curriculum, math activities, Holiday packs and etc. THANKS!

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  18. Adrianna

    What an INCREDIBLE and free resource that you have created! I am so excited an amazed at your wonderful website, and the future my Boys have because of you!
    Oh, and the best bit? I am going to laminate these and use them for our roadtrip this weekend, as an educational tool for my 2year old and 3.5year old, to share and learn together!!!
    THANKYOU!!

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  21. Ron

    My daughter, at age 4, really loves to do the beginning sound coloring pages with me. We’ve been doing a ‘letter of the day’ every weekday for a month or so now. These pages are a good teaching aid for learning the sounds letters make, and for being able to pick out what letter a word starts with. After doing the sheet together, we watch the Sesame Street 6 minute video podcast that corresponds with the letter of day. All of the video podcasts are available for free on Youtube, just search for ‘sesame street letter [letter]’. It takes about 15 minutes to do it all, and she learns very fast. Thank you for your work; it has been a real benefit for my family.

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    • Anna Geiger

      Thank you so much for that feedback, Ron! I will definitely have to check out the Sesame Street podcasts. I love that they are just a few minutes each. I think my 3 year old will enjoy those!

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  22. Jen

    Love these!!! Thank you for sharing these with us. I did notice a error on the uppercase Z page, the zebra graphic (close to the bottom of the page) is superimposed on the Christmas tree graphic.

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    • Anna Geiger

      Hi Rashid!

      You have two places to find my free printables:

      As an email subscriber, go to the subscriber freebie page and use the password. You got it in your first email when you started following my site. If you are receiving the newsletters, it’s at the bottom of each one.

      Also, all my free printables are organized by subject on this page: https://www.themeasuredmom.com/print-2/

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  26. Katy L.

    These are great, will be using it with one of my first grade friends who is still struggling with letter-sound correspondence. My only suggestion would be to change the images for the letter “x. The correct pictures don’t represent the true sound that it makes as there are no words with an initial consonant “X’ that makes the true sound /ks/ — you have X-ray (says its name, not the sound) and xylophone (makes a /z/ sound not /ks/). Instead I would include pictures like — fox, box, six as the “correct” photos for the letter X.

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  27. Martrisha R.

    These letters are adorable! They look like fun for the kids. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I’m printing out in hopes for working with my 4 year old from home since we didn’t qualify for Pre K. Don’t want her falling behind.

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  31. shweta

    Thank you so much for this amazing resource! It’s like finding a diamond mine 🙂 or rather a coal mine full of diamonds! Love everything that you create and it’s so perfect to just keep my daughter busy. Loads of gratitude your way…….thanks again

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  36. Mary Williams

    Hi Anna, just want you to know I love the bubble letters. I have been looking for a while for them. Thank you so much gfor sharing them. Was wondering if you could post the beginning sounds for the uppercase letters with the beginning sounds. I printed the lowercase but when I went back for the uppercase they were replaced with the funny face ones. Thank you so much, Mary

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    • Anna Geiger

      Hi Mary,
      I actually never had the bubble letters with uppercase posted – just the lowercase, which you can still get here. Unfortunately I won’t be doing uppercase ones. I have too many projects with the baby coming in just a few weeks!

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  38. kayla

    Hi I was wondering are use able to most those letters of the alphabet out because I don’t have a printer or computer and this would help my son get a lot better at his letters

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  41. Maryo

    Thanks so much, these are great. In New Zealand we only teach lower case phonics so these are perfect for my New Entrant class. I just with we spelt ‘coloured’ the same way so I don’t have to alter each sheet (not that the kids will notice I’m sure!).

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    • Anna Geiger

      Yes, too bad for those funny spelling differences that make it a little challenge for you. My daughter notices them in books she reads sometimes and is quite sure there’s a typo, ha! So glad you can use these, Maryo!

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  45. Leishia Booth

    These are the best I have seen in a long time. Fantastic idea. I am planning to print them out for my soon to be 2 yr old. What I like about these is that most children learn to identify the capital letters of the alphabet, but have some difficulty in identifying lower case. These are all lower case & having them colour in the correct matching pictures to the letters is a great idea in encouraging them to learn to identify the sounds.
    I have also been using Brainy Baby dvd’s for my daughter since she was 2 months old & I absolutely swear by how great they are. At 20 months she was identifying over 100 different animals & objects, she knows her colours, shapes & her whole alphabet as well as numbers 1-10. I highly recommend them for a parent wanting to have their child get the best start in education. They can be found in baby stores & also online, but are popular, so go out of stock quick. Just wanted to add this in for anyone wanting to teach their tots extra. The dvd’s are awesome. Thanks for sharing your printable alphabet letters, they are fantastic, I will definately be following in Pinterest.

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