Letter Q Is for Quilt Coloring Page

Q is the letter most alphabet sets struggle with, and this sheet answers it with a patchwork quilt laid flat and seen from above. A hollow capital Q and a hollow lowercase q sit across the top. The capital is a closed circle with a short tail crossing its edge, which makes it the letter O with one extra stroke, and the lowercase is a bowl with a straight tail dropping below the line, which makes it a mirror of the lowercase p from this same set. Children who confuse p, q, b and d have all four in this alphabet set and can lay the pages next to each other. The quilt is the reason this page holds attention longer than most. It is a grid of big plain squares inside a simple wavy edge, and every square is left blank, so a child can give each one its own colour and end up with a genuinely different result from anyone else. It works for an alphabet unit, a sewing or textiles topic, or a colour and pattern exercise.