Alphabet "M" Coloring Pages
About Alphabet "M"
"M" is for "Monkey"
The letter on this coloring page is Alphabet "M", the 13th letter of the alphabet.
Since there are 26 letters in the alphabet, it is right in the middle.
A word that starts with Alphabet "M" is Monkey. A monkey is a saru in Japanese.
On the left side, there is a happy monkey sitting and holding a banana with both hands.
Its long, curled tail is very cute, too.
Say "Monkey" out loud first, and then start coloring!
How to write uppercase "M" and lowercase "m"
You write uppercase "M" in 4 strokes.
For stroke ①, draw the left straight line from top to bottom.
For stroke ②, go down diagonally from the top left to the bottom middle.
For stroke ③, go up diagonally from the bottom middle to the top right.
For stroke ④, draw the right straight line from top to bottom.
Only stroke ③ goes from bottom to top, so look closely at the direction of the arrow.
Write uppercase letters from the top line down to the 3rd line.
You write lowercase "m" in 1 stroke.
Draw a line down from the 2nd line, go back up halfway, and draw 2 bumps in a row.
It has 1 more bump than "n", so it helps to remember it as "two 'n's stuck together."
The sound of Alphabet "M" is "m" with your mouth closed
The name of Alphabet "M" is read as "em".
Inside words, it makes an "mm" sound by closing your mouth and making a sound through your nose.
It sounds like the "mmm" sound you make when you eat something yummy.
Close your lips tight, then open them quickly, and you get the "m" sound in "moon".
Learning how letters and their sounds go together like this is called phonics.
Saying the sound first, like "m, m, monkey," before reading the word makes it easier to remember!
3 Words that start with Alphabet "M"
In the middle on the right side, there are 3 small pictures of words that start with Alphabet "M".
The 1st one is Moon. It is the tsuki floating in the night sky.
The 2nd one is Milk. It is gyunyu.
The 3rd one is Mouse. It is a nezumi.
Try looking for words that start with the "m" sound with someone in your family.
"Mom" is a word for mother!
How to Color Alphabet "M"
Use the colors of the stroke order as clues for the big "M" and "m" in Alphabet "M"
Color inside the outlines of the big "M" and "m" at the top right with your favorite colors.
The stroke order numbers are written in red for ①, blue for ②, green for ③, and orange for ④.
If you color the 4 lines with the same color as their number, you can see the order to write them at a glance.
It will also look nice and bright if you color them yellow to match the bananas!
Color the monkey brown and its face skin tone
Color the monkey's body brown or dark brown.
If you use light peach or light orange for its face, tummy, inside of its ears, and the bottoms of its hands and feet, it will look real!
Color the banana yellow, and add a little brown to the tips of the peel to make it look yummy.
Color the peeled inside cream to make it look different from the peel.
Try coloring the small pictures too
If you color the moon yellow and paint the space around it dark blue or navy blue, it will look like it is floating in the night sky!
For the milk carton, you can leave the white parts as they are and add patterns with blue or red.
Try coloring the mouse gray and making the inside of its ears pink.
When tracing, count the number of peaks
At the bottom right, faint gray "M"s and "m"s are lined up, 3 of each.
Use a pencil to trace over them slowly, following the stroke order.
As you trace the lowercase "m", count to see if it has 2 bumps.
The trick is to place the bottom of the letters right on the 3rd line of the 4 lines.
When you finish tracing, try writing them by yourself in the empty space on the right!
Fun Facts About Alphabet "M"
Japanese macaques living in the snow
The monkeys living in Japan are Japanese macaques.
Other than humans, Japanese macaques are known to live farthest north among all monkeys.
On the Shimokita Peninsula in Aomori Prefecture, you can see Japanese macaques living in the snow.
When winter comes, their fur grows fluffy so they can stand the cold.
The moon always shows the same face
The moon travels around the Earth.
And from Earth, you can only ever see the same side of the moon.
That is why the pattern that looks like a "rabbit making rice cakes" in Japan always looks the same whenever you look at it.
A computer "mouse"
The tool you move with your hand when using a computer is also called a mouse.
People say it got this name because its round shape and the cord coming out of it look like a mouse's body and tail.
Today, many mice do not have cords.
Why milk is white
Milk is mostly made of water.
Even so, it looks white because lots of tiny drops of fat and protein are floating in the water.
When light hits these tiny drops, it bounces back in many directions, which makes the milk look white.
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