Letter H Coloring Page with a Little Horse and a Cowboy Hat

Print this letter H coloring page for a week of H words. A little horse with a flowing mane stands with one front leg lifted, and beside it a cowboy hat rests on its brim with a five-pointed star on the hat band. A tall capital H and a lowercase h fill the top half of the sheet as thick, empty outlines.

It is a free printable for preschool and kindergarten, about ages 3 to 6. Every shape on the page is large, and the page has no background to fill, so it stays quick to finish.

How this coloring page was created

Here is the sentence we typed into Colorin AI for this page: "the capital letter H and the lowercase letter h side by side, drawn large as hollow outlined letters ready to color across the top half of the page, with a horse and a hat below them".

"Drawn large" gave the letters most of the top half of the sheet, and "hollow outlined letters" left them empty inside, ready for crayons. "Side by side" set the capital H and the lowercase h next to each other, with the lowercase h a little shorter than the capital. "Below them" placed the horse and the hat in the lower half of the page.

About This Letter H Coloring Page

The capital H and the lowercase h are built from straight lines and one curve, which makes them a clear pair for comparing uppercase and lowercase. The capital H has two posts joined by a bar in the middle. The lowercase h has one tall post with an arch on its right side.

Horse and hat begin with the h sound, a breathy sound made with an open mouth, so a speech therapist can ask a child to say each word and feel the air on a hand. Hooves start with h as well, which gives a teacher one more H word to point to.

The horse turns its head toward the reader. It has two pointed ears, a forelock that sweeps over its forehead and a mane that falls down the left side of its neck. Its muzzle is a rounded oval with two round nostrils. Three of its legs stand on the ground, and the fourth, a front leg, bends up at the knee. Each leg ends in a hoof marked by a line across it, and its tail curls up from its back and hangs down in a wavy lock.

The hat sits on the ground to the right of the horse. Its wide brim turns up at the right edge, its crown has a dent across the top, and a band circles the crown with a five-pointed star on the front.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

A brown or tan horse with a darker mane, forelock and tail looks like a real horse, and the hooves can be black or dark gray. Long strokes that follow the curves of the mane give the hair a flowing look.

For the hat, a classic cowboy look is brown with a darker band and a yellow star. A child can also match the hat to the letters, coloring the H, the h and the hat band in the same color so the top and the bottom of the page go together.

If a child has a favorite animal for another letter, build a letter page around that animal and add it to the set.

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