A capital A and a round lowercase a fill the top half of this letter A coloring page as thick, empty outlines. Below them, a smiling apple with a stem and one leaf sits behind a grinning alligator, whose long body and curled tail stretch across the bottom of the sheet. The shapes are big and simple, so the page is easy for preschool and kindergarten, about ages 3 to 6.

How this coloring page was created

For this page, we typed this idea into Colorin AI: "the capital letter A and the lowercase letter a side by side, drawn large as hollow outlined letters ready to color across the top half of the page, with an apple and an alligator below them".

How to use it

For a letter of the week, a preschool teacher can ask children to color the capital A in one color and the lowercase a in another, then point to the pair and name the letter. Apple and alligator begin with the same short a sound, so a speech therapist can have a child say each word aloud before coloring its picture.

An occupational therapist can use the wide letter outlines and the round apple for slow coloring inside a line. At home, the page can open a family alphabet book, and for a page built around a name that starts with A, create a letter A page with that name.