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Choose the Activity
Open the Activities tab in the generator and pick Tracing for print letters or Cursive Practice for joined cursive.
Type a name and print a tracing sheet with the drawings your child loves.
This name tracing generator makes a printable worksheet with the name in dotted letters on handwriting lines, ready for a child to trace. Choose print letters or joined cursive, and add drawings around the name for your child to color once the writing is done.
A real sheet made in the Activities tab.
Pick an example to see what was typed in the generator, then open the generator and type your own name.
ExampleBoth activities are in the same Activities tab of the generator, so a print sheet for a preschooler and a cursive sheet for an older child take the same steps.
Not sure which one fits? Make one of each and compare them.
Try Both Activities →The generator lays out the handwriting lines and the dotted letters for you, so there is nothing to format or line up by hand.
Open the Activities tab in the generator and pick Tracing for print letters or Cursive Practice for joined cursive.
Write a name, a sight word like "see" or a short phrase like "I am brave", up to 20 characters.
If you like, list the drawings to place around the rows, such as lions, suns and stars. Then generate the sheet and print as many copies as you need.
Ready to try the generator? Start with your child's name.
Start Creating Now →Each sheet has the dotted letters and handwriting lines a name tracing worksheet needs, plus the drawings your child asks for, so the sheet becomes a coloring page once the tracing is done.
Type lions, unicorns, trucks or flowers in Add drawings, and the generator draws them around the rows, ready to color.
Sight words, color words and short phrases go on the rows the same way a name does, so the name tracing worksheet generator also covers the word of the week.
Tracing and Cursive Practice sit side by side in the Activities tab, so a child who moves from print to cursive keeps using the same tool.
Every row is a handwriting line with a dashed midline, the guide children use to size small letters and tall letters.
Downloaded sheets have no watermark, so they print clean at home or at school.
Pick Tracing or Cursive Practice and add the drawings they love.
Create a Name Tracing SheetThe sheet is the same for one child at home, for a class of twenty, and for a pack you make to sell.
Make one sheet per student with each child's name for the first weeks of school, morning work or a writing center.
Start with the name in print letters, move on to sight words, and switch to Cursive Practice when your child is ready.
Put your child's favorite animals or toys around the name, so tracing ends with a page to color.
What you make in your Colorin account comes with a commercial license, so you can sell your name tracing sheets in your store.
Have your class list ready? Make the first sheet now.
Create a Tracing Sheet →A free account comes with credits that refill every 10 days. When you need more sheets, coloring pages or coloring books, choose the plan that matches how often you create.
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You can start with a free Colorin account, which comes with credits that refill every 10 days, enough for your first tracing sheets. To make more sheets, you choose a paid plan.
Open the Activities tab in the Colorin generator, choose Tracing, type the name and generate the sheet. If you want drawings around the rows, list them in Add drawings first. Then download the sheet and print it.
Yes. Choose Cursive Practice in the Activities tab, and the name comes out in joined, dotted cursive at the start of five handwriting rows, with open space on each row for the child to write the name again.
Yes. The text field takes a word, a name or a short phrase of up to 20 characters, using letters, spaces and basic punctuation. A sight word or a short sentence like "I am brave" goes on the rows the same way a name does.
Each row is a handwriting line with a dashed midline. Tracing repeats the name on four rows in dotted print letters, and Cursive Practice uses five rows.
Yes. Type what you want in Add drawings, for example lions, suns and stars, and the generator places those drawings around the rows for your child to color.
Yes. Type each child's name and generate one sheet per student, then print as many copies of each sheet as you need.
There is nothing to install, because the generator runs in your web browser. You do need a Colorin account to make and download sheets, and signing up is free.
No. The tracing sheets you download have no watermark.
Yes. What you make in your Colorin account comes with a commercial license, so you can sell your sheets, for example on Teachers Pay Teachers or Etsy. The license does not cover characters or brands that belong to someone else.
Still have questions? The quickest answer is to make one sheet.
Create a Tracing Sheet →With the same Colorin account you can make other printables for the same children.
Choose print or cursive and add the drawings they love around the name.
Create a Name Tracing Sheet