Letter Z Is for Zipper Coloring Page

The last letter of the alphabet gets a zipper, and this sheet sets a hollow capital Z beside a hollow lowercase z above it. Z is the same shape in both cases, three straight strokes making a top bar, a diagonal and a bottom bar, so it is one of the quickest letters to draw despite arriving last. Children often reach it with a real sense of finishing something, and it is worth marking that. The zipper below is drawn as two long tracks of chunky square teeth running up to a pull tab, which gives a child a row of small repeating shapes to work along rather than one big area to fill. That repetition suits the end of an alphabet session, because it asks for patience rather than concentration. Some children colour every tooth the same, others alternate two colours down the row. Print it to close an alphabet unit, for a topic on clothes and how they fasten, or as a page that rewards getting all the way to Z.