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Letter H Worksheets: Tracing & Writing

Learn how to write the letter H: watch uppercase and lowercase animations, try letter H tracing and a quiz, and download free letter H worksheets.

Lowercase h reaches from the baseline to the topline. Capital H reaches from the baseline to the topline. Watch how to write the letter H, check each starting point, then practice with the letter H tracing quiz and free letter H worksheets.

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Capital H and lowercase h with green starting dots and red stopping marks on writing lines

How to write a lowercase h

This is the lowercase h children practice in Scribble’s handwriting course. Press play to follow each movement on the writing lines, then check the facts and numbered instructions beside it. A change of direction can be part of the same stroke; lift only between numbered strokes.

Lowercase h has one stroke.

Lowercase h is a tall letter.

Lowercase h reaches from the baseline to the topline.

  1. 1

    Big line down, up and over, back down.

    Start at the topline. Stop at the baseline.

What to watch for

Start at the topline for the tall stem. Retrace upward only to the small-letter height before making the hump and finishing at the baseline.

Letter h tracing: lowercase h quiz

Check the writing lines, tap where each stroke starts and stops, then trace the lowercase h with your finger, mouse or stylus. Keep following the green dot until the stroke finishes. Wrong taps let you try again.

1. Lines2. Start and stop3. Trace

3 quick checks · about a minute

Letter h worksheet: lowercase practice

Print this free lowercase h worksheet to move from screen to paper. Five rows guide you through tracing, starting at a dot, copying a model, writing from memory and tracing a word. Use actual size on US Letter paper or fit to page for A4.

How to write a capital H

This is the capital H children practice in Scribble’s handwriting course. Press play to follow each movement on the writing lines, then check the facts and numbered instructions beside it. A change of direction can be part of the same stroke; lift only between numbered strokes.

Capital H has three strokes.

Lift the pencil between the three numbered strokes.

Capital H is a capital letter.

Capital H reaches from the baseline to the topline.

  1. 1

    Big line down.

    Start at the topline. Stop at the baseline.

  2. 2

    Another big line down.

    Start at the topline. Stop at the baseline.

  3. 3

    Little line across the middle.

    Start at the midline. Stop at the midline.

What to watch for

Make two tall stems, lifting between them, then connect them with a middle bar. Keep the stems the same height.

Letter H tracing: capital H quiz

Check the writing lines, tap where each stroke starts and stops, then trace the capital H with your finger, mouse or stylus. Keep following the green dot until the stroke finishes. Wrong taps let you try again.

1. Lines2. Start and stop3. Trace

3 quick checks · about a minute

Letter H worksheet: capital practice

Print this free capital H worksheet to move from screen to paper. Five rows guide you through tracing, starting at a dot, copying a model, writing from memory and tracing a word. Use actual size on US Letter paper or fit to page for A4.

Use H and h in words

In Scribble’s paired-letter sequence, lesson 18 introduces h and H. Word practice from that lesson includes hat, hot, hut. Say a word, listen for its sounds, and choose the letters before writing it.

hat
hot
hut

A sentence from this lesson

Hank has a hat.

In the course, students listen to the sentence, study its capital, punctuation and spacing, trace it, then write from memory with spoken prompts.

Use words when the child knows the other letters too. These examples belong to a planned sequence; an individual letter worksheet is one small part of that teaching. Get early access to the print handwriting course.

Compare related letter shapes

Compare the starting points, height and direction in these related shapes. Notice which movement changes when you move from one letter to the next:

Learning connected writing? The cursive H guide shows its cursive forms and joins. Compare its movement with the separate-letter forms above.

Questions about writing letter H

For lowercase h: Start at the topline. Big line down... up and over... back down. Stop at the baseline. For capital H: Start in the top left corner. Big line down, another big line down, then a little line across the middle. Stop at the midline. Watch each animation to see the starting point and direction.

Capital H has three strokes. Lowercase h has one stroke. A stroke means one continuous movement while the pencil touches the paper; a dot is a separate tap.

Start at the topline for the tall stem. Retrace upward only to the small-letter height before making the hump and finishing at the baseline.

Yes. Download the lowercase h sheet, the capital H sheet or the two-page pair. Each has a model, tracing, starting-dot practice, independent writing and a word row. No signup is needed.

The paired-letter handwriting sequence introduces h and H in lesson 18. Its word practice includes hat, hot, hut. The Beginner pathway has a separate capitals-first order.

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