Letter L Is for Lion Coloring Page

A hollow capital L and a hollow lowercase l stand at the top of this sheet, and a smiling lion sits below with a full mane ringing its face. This is the simplest letter pair in the whole set. The capital L is one vertical stroke and one horizontal foot, and the lowercase l is a single straight line with nothing else at all, which means a child can finish the letters quickly and spend most of the page on the animal. The mane is drawn as one smooth scalloped ring rather than as separate strands, so it colours as a single band around the face instead of turning into fine detail work, and the lion's body underneath is left open. Because the letters take so little effort here, this is a good sheet to hand a child who is losing patience with alphabet practice, or to use as the reward page at the end of a run of harder letters. It also fits straight into a zoo, jungle or big cat topic without any explanation.