Printable Bubble Letter A
Thirty-six free printable bubble letter A sheets, and the letter on every one of them is the A. The capital at page size and the small a in both the shape books print and the shape children write, eight finishes from polka dots to graffiti, dotted outlines to trace, pages that print two, four, six or twelve A at a time, cut-out pennants and name labels, and five words that start with A. Free PDFs, print at home or for a class, no sign-up and no watermark.
Ages 3-10
Updated August 2026
Curated by 
Poppy Fox
The A, the a, and the other a
A capital A is a triangle with a bar across it. A small a is a circle with a stick. They share a name and nothing else, which is why each one gets a page of its own here. Then they are set side by side, the small a is shown in both the shape a book prints and the shape a child writes, and the last two sheets put the A among the letters it hides behind and at the head of the alphabet, where it has always been.
Uppercase bubble letter A
The capital A blown up until it fills the paper. It is the letter with a hole in it, so the triangle at the top is left white and the two legs and the bar take the colour.
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Lowercase bubble letter a
The small a at page size: one round bowl with a straight stem down its right hand side, which is the a a child writes long before meeting the one in a book.
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Bubble A and a together
Capital and small in matching boxes. Nothing about the small a can be guessed from the capital A, so the only way to learn the pair is to have both drawn at one height.
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Find and colour every A
Forty eight bubble letters in a grid and only some are A. The rest are what an A hides among: a V with no bar, a pointed H, an R, and the round family of o, c, e, d and u.
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Where the A sits in the alphabet
The A is where the alphabet starts, so this chart has nothing to its left. It sits at the head of its run with B and C beside it, and the strip underneath marks the very first cell.
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The two shapes of the small a
The small a is the one letter with two drawings: a book sets it with a hook over the bowl, a child writes it as a circle with a stick. Both are outlined here at one height.
Download PDFEight ways to draw a bubble A
The same A with eight finishes, and every one of them is printed on the sheet rather than described. Five arrive already filled with a pattern to colour between, and three change the outline itself: a double line that runs round the triangular hole as well, a hard drop shadow, and the fat graffiti version with a white line cut through the border.
Polka dot bubble A
Open circles run through the A from the feet to the point, so the colouring job is the gaps between the dots and not one flat slab of colour down each leg.
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Striped bubble A
Diagonal bands cross the A and cut against the slope of its legs, which makes it a two colour job: one shade on the stripes, another between them, and the bar striped as well.
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Checkered bubble A
A chequerboard printed inside the A. The squares meet the slanted legs at an angle, so keeping the pattern going takes more care here than it would on a letter made of uprights.
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Star filled bubble A
Outlined five pointed stars scattered through the A, ready to take one shade while the letter behind them takes another. The pattern runs out where the two legs meet at the top.
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Heart filled bubble A
Small hearts printed all the way through the A, the version that ends up on a card or a birthday banner rather than pinned to the classroom display board.
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Double outline bubble A
Two lines follow the A round with a white channel between them, and they go round the inside of the triangular hole as well, so the counter ends up with a border of its own.
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3D bubble A with a shadow
A solid grey copy sits behind and below the A and lifts it off the paper. Grey shows through the hole in the middle, which is the part that makes the letter read as a slab.
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Graffiti style bubble A
The heavy version: a fat black border with a white line cut through the middle of it and a hard shadow behind, the way an A gets sprayed at the front of a name on a wall.
Download PDFTracing the A, and learning to draw one
Dotted outlines for a pencil to follow, from one page filling A down to rows of small ones on three-line guides with a green dot marking where to start. Two sheets then stop handing the outline over: one asks for a freehand A in an empty box, the other walks through the four steps that turn a pointed A into a rounded one.
Dotted bubble A to trace
A page sized A printed as a dotted line instead of a solid one. Going round it once teaches the order the strokes want: down the left leg, down the right, then the bar across last.
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Trace rows of capital A
Sixteen capitals on four sets of guides, one worked and fifteen dotted. The crossbar is the thing to watch: it has to land at the same height on every A or the row looks crooked.
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Trace rows of small a
The same four rows with the small a, which is one continuous shape: round the bowl to the left, back up to the top, and straight down the stem without lifting the pencil.
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Trace Aa pairs
Capital and small traced as one unit, twelve pairs in all. This is the letter as it turns up at the front of Ana, Adam and April, and the pair is how it should be practised.
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Trace the A, then draw it
Half the page gives a dotted A away and the other half is an empty box. Copying a rounded outline and inventing one are different skills, and only the bottom half asks for the second.
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How to draw a bubble A in four steps
Four panels: the plain A, a rounded line drawn around it, the skeleton rubbed out, the letter filled in. Step two is where the sharp point at the top turns into a soft dome.
Download PDFHow many A to a page
One child colouring one letter wants the whole sheet. A class spelling out a display wants twelve to a page. These five print the A at two, four, six and twelve to the sheet, plus a mixed page that alternates the capital and the small letter. The A is a wide letter, so it keeps its shape further down this list than most.
Two bubble A on one page
Two capitals stacked on one sheet, each still wide enough for a fist sized crayon. The A is a wide letter, so two is as many as fit before the legs start to come out thin.
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Four bubble A on one page
A two by two block of capitals, the size that cuts down into four square cards. The A fills a square better than most letters do, because it is nearly as wide as it is tall.
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Six bubble A on one page
Six capitals in three rows, one print for a whole table of children, and still large enough that the triangular hole in each of them can be left white on purpose.
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Twelve small bubble A
Twelve to the sheet, the density a display board needs. The A turns up in more classroom words than any other vowel, so this is the page that gets printed twice.
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Eight A and a in a grid
Eight boxes alternating A and a. Because the two shapes have nothing in common, colouring down this page means changing drawing at every box instead of settling into one.
Download PDFCut it out, hang it up, label things with it
The sheets that end up on a wall. The cut-out template prints the A inside a grey band so the scissors have something to follow, the pennants string into a banner, the labels take a name beside the initial, and the framed monogram is a door or locker sign. Cardstock rather than copier paper for all six, and a hole punch for the flags.
Cut out bubble A template
A stencil sized A inside a thick grey band for the scissors to follow. Cut the outer edge only and it hangs as a solid letter; take the little triangle out too and it becomes a stencil.
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Bubble A pennant flag
One triangular flag with the A on it and both string holes already marked. A triangular letter on a triangular flag, which is why it sits centred and a little low on the cloth.
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Three A bunting flags
Three smaller pennants on one sheet. Words that go up on a wall tend to need the A more than once, so ANA or BANANA comes off a single print of this page.
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A name labels to cut out
Four label cards, the bubble A on the left and a ruled line for the rest of the name. With an Ava, an Aiden and an Alex in the room, this is the label sheet that runs out first.
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Framed A monogram door sign
The A centred inside a double frame with a writing line under it, printed portrait so it hangs on a bedroom door or a locker. The letter keeps the top and the line stays clear.
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Six A cards with cut lines
Six A boxed in dashed cut lines instead of solid borders, so one page comes apart into six cards without a ruler. They suit a sound sort or an alphabet line along a wall.
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A letter sticks when it belongs to a word. Five words, each printed once in big bubble outline to colour and twice more on handwriting guides to write. The A is also a word on its own in English, the only one besides I, and that is worth saying out loud while the first of these is being coloured.
Bubble letters: APPLE
APPLE in bubble outline and twice more on guides. It is the word the letter A is taught with in almost every English alphabet book, and its A makes the short vowel sound.
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Bubble letters: ANT
Three letters and nothing else, so ANT prints the fattest bubble type of the five word pages and suits the youngest hand on the crayon.
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Bubble letters: ARROW
ARROW in fat outline letters, five wide, with a pair of R shapes in the middle to stop the colouring going automatic once the A at the front is done.
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Bubble letters: ACORN
ACORN printed once big and twice on lines. Five letters with a round O in the middle, which gives the page a curve to colour between the A at the front and the N at the end.
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Bubble letters: ALLIGATOR
ALLIGATOR is nine letters, the longest word here and the one that needs the most patience: the type comes out smaller so the whole A word still fits across the sheet.
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The rest of the family: one page per letter, and the A to Z set when you want the whole alphabet on one sheet.
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Try the bubble letter generatorHow do you draw a bubble letter A?
Write a plain capital A lightly in pencil. Trace a rounded line a finger's width outside both legs and the crossbar, keeping the gap even. Round the point at the top into a dome and round off the two feet. Leave the small triangle in the middle open, then rub out the pencil inside and colour what is left.
The hole in the middle is the letter
Every stroke of a bubble A thickens inwards as well as outwards. The two legs grow towards each other, the crossbar grows up and down, and the little triangle they trap between them gets smaller with every pass. Fill that triangle in and the A stops being an A: it reads as a rounded pyramid with a bar stuck across it.
So the triangle is the thing to defend. Keep the crossbar low, a little under halfway up, which is lower than it looks right on a plain letter, and the hole above it stays big enough to survive having an outline drawn round it. Every sheet here is built that way, and the ones with a pattern printed inside leave the hole white on purpose.
There are two small a, and both of them are correct
The capital has one shape. The small letter has two. The a in a printed book has a bowl with a hook curving over the top of it, two floors high. The a a child writes is a plain circle with a stick down its right hand side. Nobody says this out loud, so children spot it on their own and quietly assume one of the two is a mistake.
They are the same letter. The comparison sheet in the first group prints both of them in bubble outline at the same height, side by side, which is the shortest way to settle it.
A is a word all by itself
The A is the first letter of the alphabet and the first vowel, and in English it is also a whole word on its own: a book, a nap, a friend. Only one other letter of the twenty-six can do that. It is worth saying out loud while the word pages are being coloured, because it turns the shape on the paper into something the child already says fifty times a day.
Print them in this order
Start with the dotted A. It hands over the outline and asks only for a pencil that follows it. Then the plain capital, then the small letter, then the sheet that puts the printed a and the written a side by side.
The patterned sheets come next. They are not decoration: colouring between printed dots or stripes needs a steadier hand than filling a plain letter does, and a child who is bored of the outline will keep going for the chequerboard.
Leave the four step how-to sheet until the tracing rows come out even, and leave the empty box on the trace-and-draw page until after that. Drawing a bubble letter from nothing is the last skill on this page, not the first.
The cut-out template, the pennants and the labels belong to the grown-up with the scissors, and they want card rather than copier paper. The word pages sit at the end because they are the reason to learn the letter at all.
All 36 sheets in six groups
The page is split into six: the two cases plus the two versions of the small a, eight finishes for the same letter, the tracing and how-to sheets, the pages that print two, four, six or twelve A at a time, the cut-out and display crafts, and five words that begin with A.
Everything prints on US Letter and A4 from the same PDF, in black and white, with no sign-up and no watermark. Print one, print all 36, use them with one child or with a whole class.
More bubble letters and more letter practice
Every other letter of the alphabet, both cases, the numbers and the ready-made word banners are on printable bubble letters A-Z. The letter with the most corners to round off gets the same treatment on bubble letter M sheets. For a whole name or a word rather than one letter, type it into the bubble letter generator below. If it is handwriting you are after rather than lettering, this letter is drilled properly on alphabet tracing worksheets and joined up on cursive alphabet worksheets.
