Letter of the week printables for every theme
Free letter of the week printables for preschool: a trace page and a color page for each of 52 themes, Letter or A4, and a three-day plan that's one sheet a child.
Each of Peabody's 52 preschool themes comes with a free two-page letter pack: a trace page with the week's letter in upper and lower case, and a color page with the big letter, "A is for apple" and the theme's drawing. Meet the letter three times in the week (trace on Monday, find it on Wednesday, color on Friday) and it's one sheet a child, not a stack. The packs print on Letter or A4 with no sign-in, and Peabody is free through the end of 2026.
Letter of the week has a way of turning into a worksheet pile. Five sheets a day, twenty children, and by Friday the recycling bin is full and nobody remembers the letter. The packs here are deliberately small: two pages, used across the week.
What's in a letter pack
Page 1, the trace page. The heading says "Trace A and a", with a line for the child's name. Below are four rows of the letter, upper case, lower case, upper, lower, six letters to a row.
Page 2, the color page. "Color the A", a name line, the big letter in upper and lower case, the line "A is for apple", and the theme's own line drawing, open shapes a child can color.
Each pack lives at its theme. For example, the apples letter pack is A for apple, and the farm letter pack is F for farm. The theme index links every one.
Three meetings in a week
- Monday, trace. The upper and lower case once across the trace page.
- Wednesday, find. The letter on the door, a cereal box, a child's name, and in the week's book.
- Friday, color. The big letter and the theme's drawing on the color page.
This is how the wall plan from the theme planner sets it out too: "Trace A a" on Monday, "Find A in the room" on Wednesday, "Color: A is for apple" on Friday. Tuesday and Thursday are left free for the craft, the snack and the outside game.
By age
Pick your room's ages in the planner and the letter line changes:
- Infants and toddlers: skip the trace page; show the picture page and say the word.
- Twos: the picture page only; color it and say the word.
- Threes and fours: trace the letter once in each case, then find it in the room and in the book.
- Mixed ages: the fours do the trace page; everyone gets the picture page.
A three-year-old tracing with a fat crayon won't stay on the lines, and doesn't need to. For fours who want more, try the letter in sand or on a chalkboard after the trace page.
The letters, theme by theme
The 52 themes cover 20 letters. Some letters get more than one week, which is useful: S comes back for scarecrows, shapes, space, spring, summer, the beach and letters and sounds.
| Letter | Themes (and the word) |
|---|---|
| A | Apples (apple) |
| B | Bears (bear), Bugs (bug), Butterflies (butterfly), My body (body), Boats (boat) |
| C | Colors (color), Camping (camp), Food and cooking (cook), Mixing colors (color) |
| D | Dinosaurs (dinosaur) |
| E | Five senses (ear) |
| F | Farm, Frogs and ponds (frog), Flowers (flower), Fairy tales, Feelings, Families (family) |
| G | Gingerbread, Seeds and growing (grow) |
| H | Community helpers (helper) |
| J | Jungle |
| K | Friends and kindness (kind) |
| L | Leaves (leaf), Shadows and light (light) |
| M | All about me (me), Music and instruments (music) |
| N | Birds and nests (nest), Night and day (night), Counting (number) |
| O | Ocean, Opposites (opposite) |
| P | Pumpkins (pumpkin), Pets (pet) |
| R | Rain and rainbows (rain), Nursery rhymes (rhyme), Rocks and dirt (rock) |
| S | Scarecrows (scarecrow), Shapes (square), Space (star), Spring, Summer (sun), Beach and sand (sand), Letters and sounds (sound) |
| T | Thankful (thank you), Transportation (truck), Construction and tools (tools), Trains (train) |
| W | Weather, Winter and snow (winter), Water |
| Z | Zoo animals (zoo) |
Six letters have no theme of their own yet: I, Q, U, V, X and Y. If you run a strict A-to-Z year, you'll want your own pages for those weeks. If you run a theme year, the letter follows the theme, and the children meet the letters that come up in what they're already talking about.
Start with names
The letter that matters most to a three-year-old is the first letter of their own name. When the week's letter is in a child's name, say so at circle time: "This week is M. Who has an M in their name?"
That's one reason All about me, with its M for me, is a good first week. The name tags post pairs well with it.
Find the letter in the book
Wednesday's "find it in the book" works best with a short book where the letter turns up a lot. The themes' books are Peabody's own stories, and the ones at levels 0 to 3 are short enough for a child to follow along on Peabody's free stories. For farm week, find the F in the title of At the Farm, then let the children spot the letters they know in its pattern ("I see a pig. I see a hen."), which comes back on every page. For apples, Meg and the Seed is the week's first book: hunt for the letters of the children's names in it.
Try this week
- Open this week's theme and print its letter pack: one trace page and one color page per child.
- On Monday, trace once, upper and lower case, at the table, with a grown-up nearby.
- On Wednesday, go on a letter hunt: the door, the shelves, the cubby labels, the week's book.
- On Friday, color the picture page and send it home with the family note, which says "Our letter is A: A is for apple".
- Keep the trace pages in a folder. By spring, it's a nice thing to look back through with a family.
Three things providers ask
How many letter of the week printables do I need per child?
Two pages a week: the trace page on Monday and the color page on Friday. Wednesday's letter hunt needs no paper at all.
Do the packs print on A4?
Yes. Each pack prints on Letter or A4, two pages, from its theme's page.
Are the letter packs free?
Yes. All 52 packs need no sign-in and show no ads, and Peabody is free through the end of 2026.
Checked against how Peabody works on 30 October 2026. Written with help from AI. Peabody is a reading app, not a reading assessment: if you're worried about your child's reading, talk to their teacher. Questions, or something wrong? Write to hello@peabody.kids.