Printable Bubble Letter M
Thirty-five free printable bubble letter M sheets, every one of them the letter M and nothing else. The capital and the small m at page size, eight different finishes from polka dots to graffiti, dotted outlines to trace, pages that print two, four, six or twelve M at a time, cut-out pennants and name labels, and five words that start with M. 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
Uppercase M and lowercase m
The two shapes the letter actually has. A capital M and a small m are not one shape drawn at two sizes, they are two different drawings that happen to share a name, which is why each one gets a page of its own here. The pair sheet then puts them side by side, and the last two place the M among the letters children mix it up with and inside the alphabet it belongs to.
Uppercase bubble letter M
The capital M blown up until it fills a whole sheet of paper, with nothing else printed beside it to colour around.
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Lowercase bubble letter m
The small m at page size, humps and all, for the child who has learned the capital and now meets the shape that actually turns up inside words.
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Bubble M and m together
Capital and small side by side in two boxes at matching heights, which is the only way to see how differently the two versions of this letter are built.
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Find and colour every M
Forty eight bubble letters in a grid, only some of them M, the rest the humps and points that get mistaken for one. Colouring the right ones is the check.
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Where the M sits in the alphabet
The M between the two letters it lives next to, plus the full alphabet strip with its cell marked, so the letter has a place and not just a shape.
Download PDFEight ways to draw a bubble M
Same letter, 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, a hard drop shadow that lifts the M off the page, and the fat graffiti version with the white line cut through it.
Polka dot bubble M
The M arrives already full of open circles, so the colouring job is the gaps between the dots rather than one flat block of colour.
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Striped bubble M
Diagonal bands run right through the M, which makes a two colour job: one shade on the stripes and another between them.
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Checkered bubble M
A chequerboard printed inside the M, alternating squares. Colouring only the shaded ones keeps the pattern and takes real care at the curves.
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Star filled bubble M
Five pointed stars scattered inside the M, outlined and empty, waiting to be coloured one shade while the letter behind them takes another.
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Heart filled bubble M
Small hearts printed all the way through the M, the version that ends up on a card or a valentine rather than on a classroom wall.
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Double outline bubble M
Two lines follow the M round with a white channel between them, so the border can be one colour and the middle of the letter another.
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3D bubble M with a shadow
A solid grey copy sits behind and below the M and lifts it off the paper. The letter itself stays white, so only the front face gets coloured.
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Graffiti style bubble M
The heavy version: a fat black border with a white line cut through the middle of it and a hard shadow behind, the way a M gets painted on a wall.
Download PDFTracing the M, and learning to draw one
Dotted outlines a pencil goes over, from one page-filling M down to rows of small ones on three-line guides, with a green dot marking where to start. The last two sheets stop giving the outline away: one asks for a freehand M in an empty box, the other shows the four steps that turn a plain letter into a bubble one.
Dotted bubble M to trace
One page sized M printed as a dotted line instead of a solid one, so the outline itself is the exercise before any colouring starts.
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Trace rows of capital M
Sixteen capitals on four sets of handwriting guides, one worked example and fifteen to go over, which is enough repetition to make the shape automatic.
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Trace rows of small m
The same four rows done with the lowercase shape, which is the harder one to keep even because both humps have to end up the same height.
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Trace Mm pairs
Capital and small traced as one unit, twelve pairs in all, which is how the letter appears at the front of a name and how a child should practise it.
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Trace the M, then draw it
Half the page hands over a dotted M and the other half is a blank box, because following an outline and producing one are not the same skill.
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How to draw a bubble M in four steps
The plain M, the rounded outline traced around it, the skeleton rubbed out, the letter filled in: four panels that each show the drawing one step further on.
Download PDFHow many M to a page
One child colouring one letter wants the whole sheet. A class of thirty spelling out a display wants twelve to a page. These five print the same M at two, four, six and twelve to the sheet, plus a mixed page that alternates the capital and the small letter, so the paper matches the job.
Two bubble M on one page
Two capitals stacked on a single sheet, each still big enough for a fist sized crayon, which is the size two children can share one page at.
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Four bubble M on one page
A two by two block of capitals, the size that cuts down into four square cards without any of them coming out cramped.
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Six bubble M on one page
Six capitals in three rows, small enough that a whole table can have one each from a single print and big enough to still colour neatly.
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Twelve small bubble M
Twelve to the sheet, the density a display board needs: print one page and you have enough M for every word on the wall that starts with one.
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Eight M and m in a grid
Eight boxes alternating the capital and the small letter, so a child colouring the page has to switch between the two shapes rather than settle 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 M inside a grey band so the scissors have something to follow, the pennants string into a banner, the labels take a name next to the initial, and the framed monogram is a door or locker sign. Cardstock rather than copier paper for all five.
Cut out bubble M template
A stencil sized M with a thick grey margin drawn round it, so the scissors have a line to follow and the finished letter keeps a clean border.
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Bubble M pennant flag
One triangular flag with the M on it and both string holes already marked, the piece you print once per letter to spell a word across a wall.
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Three M bunting flags
Three smaller pennants on one sheet, for the word that needs the same letter more than once or for a garland made entirely of M.
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M name labels to cut out
Four label cards, each with the bubble initial on the left and a ruled line for the rest of the name, for pegs, trays, books and lockers.
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Framed M monogram door sign
The M centred inside a double frame with a writing line under it, printed portrait so it hangs as a bedroom door or locker sign.
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Six M cards with cut lines
The same six letters again but boxed in dashed cut lines instead of solid borders, so the page comes apart into six usable cards without measuring.
Download PDFWords that start with M
A letter is easier to keep hold of when it belongs to a word. Five words, each printed once in big bubble outline to colour and twice again on handwriting guides to write, so the M at the front of the word is the same M that has been coloured all the way down this page.
Bubble letters: MONKEY
MONKEY in bubble outline with the word twice more on handwriting guides, the animal most children name first when asked for an M word.
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Bubble letters: MOM
Three letters and two of them M, and the one page in this set that is drawn to be given away on a card rather than kept in a folder.
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Bubble letters: MOON
MOON in fat outline letters, the M word with two round Os in it, which makes the whole page a colouring job of curves and no corners.
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Bubble letters: MOUSE
MOUSE printed once big and twice on lines, five letters wide, the size where the word still fills the page without the letters going thin.
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Bubble letters: MAP
Three wide letters and nothing else, so MAP prints the biggest bubble type on this page and suits the youngest hand holding the crayon.
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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 make a bubble letter M?
Write a plain capital M lightly in pencil, then trace a rounded line a finger's width outside every stroke, keeping the gap even the whole way round. Round off every corner, and give the middle V a soft point rather than a sharp one. Rub out the pencil skeleton inside, then colour what is left.
The M is the hard one to round off
Most letters are one or two strokes. The capital M is four, and between them they make five points: a peak at each of the top corners, a V in the middle that points down, and a foot at the bottom of each leg. All five have to be rounded off, and the V in the middle is the one that goes wrong. Rounded too much it turns into a W, left too sharp it stops looking inflated at all.
The fix is to keep the middle V short. On a bubble M the centre stroke does not need to reach the baseline, and once the outline is drawn round it, the ink between the two inner walls closes up anyway. The sheets on this page all draw it that way, so a child copying them is copying a shape that works.
The small m has the opposite problem. It has no straight edges and no corners, just two humps and a stem, and the mistake is height: one hump ends up taller than the other. That is what the three-line guides on the tracing rows are for.
Print them in this order
Start with the dotted M, because it hands over the outline and asks only for a pencil to follow it. Then the plain capital, then the small letter. Those three cover the shape.
The patterned sheets come next. They are not decoration: colouring between printed dots or stripes takes 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 are for 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 in the first place.
All 35 sheets in six groups
The page is split into six groups: the two cases, eight different finishes for the same letter, the tracing and how-to sheets, the pages that print two, four, six or twelve M at a time, the cut-out and display crafts, and five words that begin with M.
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 35, 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. For a name or a word in bubble letters rather than a single letter, type it into the bubble letter generator below. If it is handwriting rather than lettering you are after, the same letter is drilled properly on alphabet tracing worksheets and joined up on cursive alphabet worksheets.
