Alphabet individual letters
Free Printable Alphabet Template Upper Case
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Kate Pullen
Kate Pullen
Kate Pullen is an accomplished artist and rubber stamping expert with over 15 years of professional crafting experience. She founded the website Away With The Pixels, a digital rubber stamping studio, and conducts craft workshops around the country.
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Updated on 05/05/20
Illustration: The Spruce / Madelyn Goodnight
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Use these free printable alphabet templates to create custom handmade cards, in scrapbooking projects, to make word books or flashcards and for use in a wide variety of other crafts. This alphabet is in uppercase and the bold letters are ideal for stamping and decorating. High-resolution JPG and PNG files are available for download and resizing.
More Printable Alphabet Pages
For a lower case version of this alphabet see - Free Printable Lower Case Alphabet. We also have a black and white patterned alphabet to color here - Printable Patterned Alphabet. If you are looking for something a little different than these alphabet tiles, with numbers and letters may be of interest - Free Printable Alphabet Tiles.
Use this free alphabet template in your crafting projects. Add the letters to scrapbook pages or handmade cards. Alternatively, print the letters onto paper and turn them into name banners. Perfect for parties!
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Free Printable A Template
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Free Printable Letters and Numbers for Crafts
By
Kate Pullen
Kate Pullen
Kate Pullen is an accomplished artist and rubber stamping expert with over 15 years of professional crafting experience.
She founded the website Away With The Pixels, a digital rubber stamping studio, and conducts craft workshops around the country.
Learn more about The Spruce Crafts' Editorial Process
Updated on 08/22/19
Illustration: The Spruce / Ellen Lindner
Printable letters and numbers are useful for a variety of craft projects for the home or classroom. Add a number to a handmade card to customize the card for someone's birthday, print out some letters to spell words to make a festive banner or garland, add an initial to a scrapbook page to personalize it to the recipient or use in any of a whole host of other ways.
Free Printable Letters and Numbers
We have a range of free printable letters and numbers which you can download to use in your projects. You'll find more information following the links below. All these printables are free for you to use in your personal crafting projects.
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- Printable Letters to Color - if you love coloring, you'll love these free printable letters which each feature a black and white pattern which is perfect for coloring with pens or pencils. Create your own unique look with your custom coloring scheme.
- Free Printable Upper Case Alphabet - this alphabet is in upper case and has a large bold, easy to read style. This is perfect for making word banners.
- Free Printable Lower Case Alphabet - this alphabet is the lower case version of the uppercase alphabet above.
- Free Printable Glitter Alphabet - this is a ready-patterned alphabet and each letter has a glitter pattern. These letters use a lot of ink, therefore just print the letters you require for each project. If you want to save ink, you could create glitter letters the traditional way and use one of the blank letters above, dab the surface with glue and then give it a liberal dousing with loose glitter.
- Printable Letter and Number Tiles - these letter and number tiles are in the style of Scrabble tiles. These are cute tiles which will look great on handmade cards.
- Printable Numbers 0 - 9 For Birthdays - These numbers from 0 - 9 are specifically for birthday cards. Use any one number or combine them to create the ages to decorate birthday cards and other decorations.
- Printable Letter Tiles (Words) - these letter tiles are already formed into words to save you time.
- Free Printable Numbers for Advent and Countdown Calendars - these numbers have been designed for making advent calendars and countdown calendars. Download these to create your own custom calendars this year.
We hope you enjoy these free printable alphabet and letters!
Tips
- Print the letters or numbers directly onto colored paper. This will give you colorful letters to make banners without having to add color to each individual letter.
- Cut the letters or numbers from pieces of scrapbooking or decorative paper to create pretty embellishments for projects.
- Use your rubber stamps to stamp over the letters or numbers to create unique decorative effects.
- Use your printer or photocopier to create smaller versions of these letters which will make ideal embellishments for handmade cards or scrapbook pages.
- Letters can make great educational coloring pages for kids. Give a youngster a page with a letter on it and ask them to color the letter and then draw alongside it objects that start with the letter.
Alphabet, letter on A4 sheet for printing.
Alphabet, letter on A4 sheet for printing.
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11 amazing and beautiful alphabets of the world
Not everyone who learns a new language necessarily gets acquainted with the new alphabet: today many languages of the world use familiar alphabets, in particular Latin or Cyrillic.
However, if you happen to be lucky enough to learn a language with a unique alphabet, it can be a fun and exciting experience. We talk about the 11 most amazing alphabets in the world and, together with an expert, share the secrets of learning them using the example of the Georgian language. Most people who are only familiar with their own script do not understand that different alphabets work in completely different ways. The way the Cyrillic or Latin alphabet works is by no means universal: for example, in some alphabets, the basic units are not letters representing individual vowels and consonants, but graphemes, which represent whole ideas or concepts. In other alphabets, the base units are syllables rather than individual sounds, and still others are built on combinations of vowels and consonants.
Writing direction: left to right
Number of characters: 38
The Armenian alphabet was developed around 405 AD. e. Mesrop Mashtots, Armenian linguist and spiritual leader.
Initially, the system had 36 letters, but three more were subsequently adopted. The alphabet was widely used in the Ottoman Empire around the 18th-19th centuries, and the Armenian language itself is a linguistic curiosity: some of its sounds are not found in other Indo-European languages.
Writing direction: left to right
Number of characters: 47 (33 consonants and 14 vowels)
The Balinese alphabet belongs to the Abugida writing system, one of the main characteristics of which is that the basic units are combinations of consonants and vowels with an emphasis on consonants. The alphabet is mainly used in Bali, Indonesia, where it is commonly known as Aksara Bali and Hanacaraka . The Balinese alphabet is a descendant of the Brahmi script and is today used to write Balinese, Old Javanese and Sanskrit, although the first two have largely switched to the Latin alphabet.
Although the Balinese script is similar to many other Asian languages, it is unusually complex and beautiful.
Today, this alphabet is most often used for religious purposes, such as in sacred manuscripts, especially those related to Hinduism. It was once believed that the very writing of this language was sacred and could not be deciphered or even taught unless one had sufficient spiritual power.
Writing direction: left to right
Number of characters: 45 (34 consonants and 11 vowels)
The Burmese alphabet is another descendant of the Brahmi script and consists of beautiful and intricate twists and curls. The alphabet can be traced back at least ten centuries, and like other abugidas, its letters are essentially syllables, with marks known as "diacritics" added to the consonants to indicate the vowel to be used. in syllable. Traditionally written Burmese did not have spaces between words, however modern usage has included word spacing in Burmese as this makes the text easier to read. The alphabet consists of round shapes that are always drawn in a clockwise direction, and the reason for the signature roundness is more practical than aesthetic: palm leaves, which were traditionally carved with letters, were easily torn under straight cuts.
Writing direction: left to right
Number of characters: 38 in the classical alphabet, 33 in the modern alphabet
Sitting between Turkey and Russia, Georgia has its own language and alphabet, which have historically been threatened by the Russian language. The Georgian script is the three writing systems used to write the Georgian language: Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri and Mkhedruli. Although the systems differ in appearance, all three are single-row, and their letters have the same name and alphabetical order. Of the three alphabets, Mkhedruli, once the civil royal script of the Kingdom of Georgia, is now the standard script for modern Georgian and its related Kartvelian languages, while Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri are used only by the Georgian Orthodox Churches in ceremonial religious texts and iconography.
Philologist, bilingual, Georgian language teacher since 2014, author of the Georgian language course at the AZRI online school:
The principle of analogy and the uniqueness of language
Learning any foreign language implies a tangible restructuring of the picture of the world, it is always a journey.
And when we come across ancient and rare languages with unique writing, it is also time travel. A significant difference and dissimilarity with our native language in both alphabet and grammar can cause cognitive dissonance. Here I can give the following advice: on the one hand, one should not expect that the language being studied will be so similar to the native or already studied one that one has only to translate the words - and the desired result is obtained. On the other hand, it is quite natural to look for support in the same school course of linguistics, which is served on the example of native and foreign languages. We are very lucky that the grammatical system of the Georgian language largely coincides with Russian, as well as, for example, with French and Spanish. Intersections with other languages can and should be relied upon, because the principle of analogy helps us to cope with the gap between the familiar and the new that we encounter when we start learning a language.
At the same time, it is always important to remember that each language is unique and, of course, all analogies have their limits.
Use as many channels of perception as possible
In teaching Georgian, it is relatively easy to influence several channels of perception and activate different types of memory of students due to the fact that the phonetic principle of writing works in it: this means that each of the 33 letters corresponds to exactly one sound and As a result, everything reads exactly as it is written. This is a big plus for all students: in fact, there are no and cannot be any reading rules in Georgian, Georgian words do not need to be transcribed, it is enough to know what sound a particular letter stands for. To reinforce each letter, for example, in the course of our school, we first of all use visual perception (in text, pictures and animations) and auditory perception - we provide voice acting and phonetic video materials for each letter. We also add a tactile component thanks to specially designed recipes - by analogy with those used by Georgian schoolchildren.
Of course, this method is not universal, but when studying a rare and unique language, one should try to "attack" the brain with information from several sides at once. There are many proven techniques: you can listen to audio material and "follow" the transcript with your eyes, "mock" the speaker by copying his intonations, take dictation - all these are techniques of increased efficiency.
Individual approach
The process of processing new information is individual, everyone learns new material at different speeds - this is an axiom. But at the same time, there is much that is universal in the mechanism of perception. For example, the associative and game methods are very effective. What does it mean? Most people find it easier to assimilate information by first integrating it into their reality. Having tied this or that information to our consciousness with the help of individual associations, we appropriate this information, it ceases to be alien, it becomes part of us.
These two tools - associations and a game - must be used in conjunction, because it is impossible to make a game that does not suit you a part of your life. Let's say one student spends a lot of time in transport. Mobile applications for learning new words that use the spaced repetition method are perfect for him: in a playful way and with the help of associations, they help, as it were, quietly master a large layer of information. And another student, for example, walks a lot, he can play with himself: call in the language that he is currently studying, all the objects that he meets on the way along a repeating route. In this way, he will create this space anew - for his new linguistic personality, which is formed for each language he learns. Associative links will stretch between these objects, it will “come to life”.
Writing direction: right to left
Number of characters: 22
The Hebrew alphabet is the Abjad alphabet, a branch of the Imperial Aramaic alphabet used to write Hebrew and other Hebrew languages, primarily Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo- Persian.
Historically, two separate abjad alphabets have been used to write Hebrew. The original Hebrew script, known as the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, is largely preserved in a variation of the Samaritan alphabet. In contrast, the current "Hebrew script" or "square script" is a stylized form of the Aramaic alphabet. The Hebrew alphabet does not have capitals, consists of 22 letters, but when used at the end of a word, five letters have different forms. The Arabic and Hebrew alphabets share similarities because both are derived from the Aramaic alphabet and Paleo-Hebrew.
Writing direction: top to bottom, left to right
Number of characters: 25
Ogham script is another unusual and beautiful font that most people do not even recognize as an alphabet, but take it for decorative painting. However, this is actually a Celtic tree-like alphabet, many of whose letters have their own names, traditionally referring to trees and shrubs. The Ogham script was used for writing in Early Irish and Old Irish, and although it is no longer actively used (except in neopagan rituals), inscriptions can be found throughout Ireland and parts of Britain.
Writing direction: left to right
Number of characters: 86
The Cherokee alphabet is unique not only in its spelling, but also in how it appeared. Unlike most other known styles, it was not developed over time, in the distant past, but was invented quite recently, at the beginning of the 19th century. What is even more amazing is that it was invented by a man named Sequoyah, who had not been able to read before, not only in his native Cherokee language, but in any language at all. After several unsuccessful attempts, during which he first tried to create a symbol for each word of the Cherokee language, and then for all possible concepts, he finally created a more practical alphabet with a symbol for each syllable. The symbols are based on those that Sequoyah found in European books, but since he could not read them, the relationship between letters and sounds is his own invention, which is completely different from the original Latin or Greek letters and sounds. It took the Sequoia about 12 years to complete their alphabet, but it took much less time for it to be adopted by the Cherokee people, despite their initial skepticism and resistance.
Writing direction: left to right
Number of characters: 33 in the basic alphabet (21 consonants and 12 vowels), 54 in the extended alphabet (36 consonants and 18 vowels)
The Sinhalese alphabet is also part of a family that developed from the Brahmi script. The alphabet is widely used in Sri Lanka to write the Sinhalese language, as well as Sanskrit and Pali in religious texts. The Sinhalese alphabet consists of two sets of letters, which is why it is sometimes said that they are actually two separate alphabets. The basic set of letters is used to write words in the native Sinhala language, and the extended set is used for words from Pali, Sanskrit and sometimes English. Sinhalese is considered one of the most widely spoken scripts in the world - still taught in Buddhist monasteries and schools, the language is native to more than half of Sri Lanka's 21 million people.
Writing direction: top to bottom, left to right
The Old Mongolian alphabet, also known as mongol bichig , is a beautiful vertical script in which the letters include separate consonants and vowels.
Of course, there are many vertical fonts in the world, but the Mongolian font is especially beautiful and intriguing: the beauty of the font is due to the fact that visual harmony is very important for it, and the intrigue is that the shape of the letter can be changed depending on its position and letter , which follows.
Writing direction: left to right
Number of characters: 26
Ethiopian is a syllabary originally developed to write the ancient Ethiopian language Ge'ez. Currently, geez is not used, except for religious ceremonies in a few churches, the main ones being the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Churches. However, this alphabet was adopted by other languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea, so it is still used quite widely.
Writing direction: left to right
Number of characters: 20 to 33
The Javanese alphabet is closely related to Balinese and is also derived from the Brahmi script, so they have a lot in common: the Javanese script is also richly decorated and decorative and is used in many Indonesian languages, including Sanskrit.
