Letter Y Coloring Page with a Shaggy Yak and a Smiling Yo-Yo

Print this letter Y coloring page for a Y week, and children get two words that are fun to say, yak and yo-yo. A shaggy yak with curved horns smiles on the right. To its left, a yo-yo with a happy face rests on its edge, and its string curls down to a loop. The capital Y and the lowercase y sit above them as big, empty outlines.

This free printable suits ages 3 to 6, and its big shapes make it an easy page for preschool and kindergarten.

How this coloring page was created

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

"Side by side" put the capital on the left and the lowercase on the right. The tail of the lowercase y drops lower than the base of the capital and ends just above the yak's head. With "hollow outlined letters," each letter got one thick border and stayed empty inside. "Below them" placed the yo-yo on the left and the yak on the right, and together they fill the lower half of the sheet.

A Closer Look at This Letter Y Coloring Page

The capital Y is a V shape on top of a straight stem. The lowercase y is a V shape with one long arm that keeps going down and curves into a hook, so the two letters end at different heights.

A teacher can use that tail to show a letter that drops below the line where most letters sit. Yak and yo-yo give a speech therapist two short words that start with the y sound, and a child can say each one before coloring it.

The yo-yo is seen at an angle, so the front disc and a strip of its rim both show. The face on the front disc has two eyes with a shine in each, two curved brows and an open smile. The string leaves from the lower left of the rim, runs down in a long curve and ends in a finger loop closed with a small knot.

The yak has two horns that curve upward, two ears sticking out to the sides and a shaggy fringe of hair over its forehead. Its wide muzzle has two oval nostrils above an open smile. Long fur hangs in pointed tufts over four short legs, and each hoof has a short line that splits it in two.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

Shade the yak in two browns, with a light one for the face and a darker one for the coat. Follow the pointed tufts with the pencil so the fur looks shaggy, and color the horns cream or light gray.

Give the front disc of the yo-yo and its rim two different colors. A bright color on the string lets a child follow it from the yo-yo to the loop. A thin colored pencil suits the string, since it is the narrowest shape on the page. Color the capital Y and the lowercase y in two colors, so the long tail of the y stands out on its own.

For a child who would rather color a different animal, put that animal under the first letter of their name.

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