Letter Tracing

About Letter Tracing

All twenty-six capitals, each one drawn as a road with a green dot to start from and a number showing which line comes first — in the same order children are taught to form them at school. Trace along with a finger and the road fills in behind you. It is forgiving of a wobbly hand but it does check that you followed the line: a scribble across the pad will not pass, so a letter that lights up is a letter your child really wrote. No timer and nothing to lose.

Letter Tracing is one of our words & letters games for kids. This one plays in the iPhone and iPad app rather than in the browser, but 33 of our games are free to play right here — browse the full library to find them. It is also in our games for toddlers and preschoolers collection.

How to Play

• Put a finger on the green dot marked 1.
• Slide along the road without lifting off.
• Some letters have two or three lines — do them in order.
• Tap any letter in the row below to jump to it.

Tips & Tricks

• Say the letter's sound while tracing it — hand and ear together.
• If the line resets, start again from the green dot; nothing is lost.
• Try the letters of your child's name first.

What Kids Learn

Letter Tracing is built to teach. Playing it, children work on:

• Forming letters and numbers with a set stroke order and direction
• Fine motor control: keeping a finger on a path
• Letter recognition

Curriculum links

For teachers and homeschooling parents, here is where Letter Tracing lines up with what children are taught at school:

• Common Core L.K.1.A: Print many upper- and lowercase letters
• Common Core K.CC.A.3: Write numbers from 0 to 20
• Ontario Language, Grade 1 (2023) B2.2: Alphabet knowledge: name and form upper- and lowercase letters

Letter Tracing — Frequently Asked Questions