Cute Lettering Styles for Kids
Kids love interesting lettering, especially when it's used on their birthday-party or other event invitations. They will copy your letters until they master the style. There is a variety of lettering styles that suit all types of birthday party themes. Practice a few and then give your child her choice of which to use on party invitations.
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Dots
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A lettering style that features dot details is a cute, whimsical, feminine style. Simply print a word using straight lines on all of your letters and add a dot at the tip of each line. It's important to keep the lines in the letters straight because adding dots to curved letters can look sloppy. For example, for the lowercase letter "t," draw two straight lines to form the letter. Do not add a curve or a "tail" at the bottom of the "t." Add dots at the four ends of the lines.
Bubble
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Kids love bubble letters for their interesting shapes and will practice making them endlessly. To make a bubble letter, visualize what the letter would look like if it were inflated with air. Draw the outline of the inflated letter in one motion, without lifting your pencil. The ends of the letters should have a curved appearance, like an inflated balloon. For example, to form the capital letter "I," simply draw a hot dog.
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Overlap
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Kids and teenagers like the complicated appearance of an overlapped lettering style, and appreciate it because it's easy to write. If you are writing the child's name, print using all capital letters, spaced evenly apart. Then write her name again in lowercase cursive on top of the capital letters. Match each cursive letter to its corresponding uppercase letter. You may need to write the cursive name slowly to be sure that the letters are spaced evenly apart and line up with the block letters. Use a different color for each style to make them stand out.
Alternating Case
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Young children can easily write in an alternating-case style because it's one of the easiest lettering styles to write. To write the child's name, begin with an uppercase letter, then switch to lowercase for the next letter. Continue this alternating pattern until you've written the entire name. To make this style more interesting, incorporate other lettering styles into it. You might make one of the uppercase letters in the dot style, and one of the lowercase letters in the bubble style. Use a variety of colors to add visual interest. You can also cut letters out of magazines and glue them together to form the child's name in this style.
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