Alphabet "P" Coloring Pages

"P" is for "Panda"

"P" is the 16th letter of the 26 letters in the alphabet.
The word on this coloring page is Panda.
On the left side, we drew a smiling panda sitting down and holding bamboo leaves.
You can even see its squishy paw pads under its feet.
Say "panda" out loud first, and then let's start coloring.

How to write uppercase "P" and lowercase "p"

You write uppercase "P" with 2 strokes.
Stroke ① is a straight line going from top to bottom. For stroke ②, draw a curve going up and to the right, and bring it back to the middle of the straight line.
Its height goes from the top line to the 3rd line of the 4 lines.
Lowercase "p" also takes 2 strokes. Stroke ① is a straight line, and stroke ② is the circle on the right side.
The straight line for lowercase "p" goes past the 3rd line and reaches all the way down to the 4th line.
Write the circle part between the 2nd line and the 3rd line.

The "P" sound is a "p" made with your lips

As a letter name, Alphabet "P" is read as "Pee".
Inside words, it makes a short "p" sound.
Close your lips, build up some air, and pop them open to make the sound.
If you hold a piece of tissue in front of your mouth and say "p", does the tissue move?
Panda, pig, pizza, and pencil all start with the "p" sound.

Words that start with "P"

In the middle on the right, there are 3 small pictures of words that start with Alphabet "P".
Pig means buta, Pizza means piza, and Pencil means enpitsu.
The pencil you use to trace letters is called a pencil in English too.
Many Japanese katakana words starting with "pa, pi, pu, pe, po" come from English words that start with Alphabet "P".
Try looking for other words that start with Alphabet "P" with someone in your family.

Let's compare "p", "q", "b", and "d"

The lowercase letters "p", "q", "b", and "d" are all made of a circle and a straight line.
They become different letters depending on whether the circle is on the right or left, and whether the line goes up or down.
Write all 4 next to each other and compare them like a spot-the-difference game.

You can color the big Alphabet "P" in 2 colors!

Color inside the outlines of the big Alphabet "P" and "p" in the top right using your favorite colors.
If you match the colors of the stroke order numbers—like red for line ① and blue for curve ②—it's easy to see how to write it.
For the lowercase "p", do not forget to color all the way to the bottom!

Color the panda in black and white

The panda's ears, around its eyes, and arms and legs are black.
Its face and tummy are white, so you can leave them plain.
Color the black parts dark with a pencil or colored pencil.
If you leave a white spot in the eyes, they will look shiny and bright!
Color the bamboo stalk yellow-green and the leaves green.
For the small pictures, color the pig pink. Color the pizza dough yellow and the round toppings red to make it look yummy!

Trace down to the bottom line

In the bottom right, there are 4 light gray Alphabet "P"s and 4 "p"s in a row.
Use a pencil to trace them slowly in the right stroke order.
For the uppercase Alphabet "P", write it sitting on the 3rd line of the 4 lines.
For the lowercase "p", make sure only the straight line goes down below the 3rd line.
After tracing, try writing it by yourself in the empty space on the right!

Read the words to finish up!

You can also color the word "Panda" under the left picture because it has outlines.
If you make just the first big letter the same color as the big letter in the top right, you can see how they match!
When you finish coloring, trace the letters with your finger and say "Panda" out loud.
When the pictures, letters, and sounds come together, it is much easier to learn!

The Panda's "6th Finger"

In addition to five fingers, pandas have a bumpy wrist bone on their front paws.
It works just like a "sixth finger" so they can get a tight grip on bamboo.
That is why pandas are so good at holding and eating bamboo!

Baby pandas are super small!

A baby panda weighs only about 100 to 200 grams when it is born.
That is about 1/1,000th of its mother's weight!
When they are just born, they have very little fur, and their bodies look pink.

The Origin of the Name "Pencil"

The English word pencil comes from an old Latin word that means "little tail."
A long time ago, people called a thin brush made from animal hair by that name.
Later, that word came to be used for today's pencils as a tool for drawing lines!

The home of pizza

It is said that pizza was created in Naples, Italy.
The Margherita pizza uses red tomatoes, white cheese, and green basil. These are the same three colors as the flag of Italy!