3 Teacher Fonts to Make Your Life Easier

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Make your teaching life a little easier with these kindergarten teacher-friendly fonts.

Do you make your own worksheets, workmats, or printables for your classroom? If so – then I’ve got your back on this one.

3 Teacher Fonts to Make Your Life Easier for Kindergarten

Teachers create stuff to use in their classrooms ALL.THE.TIME! Why do we do this year after year?

Is it an incessant drive to reinvent the proverbial wheel?

Is it a love of spending time on the computer?

I think not.

I think often we find new, creative ways to reach our kinders and we have the drive to improve or refine or design to meet the needs of our charges.

I’ve created a ridiculous amount of things over my going on nine years of teaching, and I’m still creating things all the time.

I know I can’t be alone in this.

So, to help make my own work lighter and hopefully yours, I’ve been scribbling away to create teacher fonts!

Today I want to share a couple of them with you.

Free teacher handwriting font

The first teacher font I want to share with you is also a kinder-friendly.

It models a Zaner-Bloser style of printing and includes all characters.

This one is my own handwriting (well, the super nice handwriting I use in front of my students) hence the name, “Leslie’s Hand.”

Leslie's Hand free font to make printables

It’s free — so grab it here if you like it!

You can easily use this font as your go-to font when you make parent newsletters, worksheets or workmats, or notes home. When you have a go-to font there’s no need to spend time making a decision when you’re at the computer.

You know what font to use and you can focus on getting the content done. Bam.

Teaching handwriting font

The second is one that I hope will help my kinders who need visual prompts when handwriting or forming letters.

I use dots much like the Handwriting Without Tears program does… but now with this font it’s automated for me (and you!)

2 free teacher fonts and a ten frame font - KindergartenWorks

Can’t you just see students tracing inside these letters, rainbow writing, etc?

This is extremely awesome for name practice. I’m not kidding.

Click here to get the starting dots font >>>

My goal is that this font can assist in anything you make to practice handwriting. If you’re bold enough – skip the traditional handwriting curriculum and teach handwriting the smart way {wink}

You’ll save loads of classroom time when you skip the worksheets.

Plus if you practice with paint bags, whiteboards and (affiliate) wikki stix to make it kinesthetic, we should all have some awesome handwriting pros.

This font is free too!

Kindergarten math font

The last font I want to recommend is a paid, but fully worth it product, especially if you like creating your own materials.

Since ten frames can be such a useful tool for helping students “see” numbers and eventually with place value and composing and decomposing numbers

I figured it might save a lot of time to have ten frames be a font so we can type a ten frame instead of drawing it each time.

Which, I might add, is really tedious to do on the computer any other way.

Ten frame font to quickly make ten frames and equation worksheets

This font comes with a cheat sheet so you can see where each number is located on your keyboard.

The ten frame font includes numbers 0-10 in a single ten frame and 0-9 are also shown as a group of randomly-spaced dots. This is great for making teen numbers with a group of ten and additional ones.

2 free teacher fonts and a ten frame font - KindergartenWorks


Think of what you can make with this handy font –

  • flashcards
  • memory games
  • color by number
  • workmats or worksheets
  • roll and color

just about anything!

ten frame font for kindergarten and first grade to make math materials

Just in case you have higher kinders as I did – you might want higher numbers –  so this font includes 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 and 90 in groups of ten.

But I’ve also made sure to add in the numerals 1-10 and symbols to build simple equations.

Ten frame font to make math worksheets

Ready to grab it?

Click here to get the ten frame font >>>

Let’s wrap it up

I hope these three fonts can quickly become your favorites and make your teaching life easier in kindergarten.

Do you have a favorite teacher font? Do share!

Not sure what to do after you download? Here’s How to Install a Font

If you’re a font-a-holic you may also like these 7 free fonts for the kindergarten teacher.

If you like what I do here on KindergartenWorks, then be sure to subscribe today. I look forward to sharing ideas with you weekly.

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  1. Hi – I have used your fonts for years. I only have one change that I like to use with my students. I teach them to make a lowercase “y” like you make a “u” with a monkey tail on the bottom (closer to Dneilian, I know , but they have such a problem with the y’s.) I manually change this whenever we get to making the ys. Is it each to create a font? Do you know of any other fonts like yours? Thanks – BTW I have used these for 4 years now and absolutely love how it works for my kiddos. Thanks!!!

  2. Hi, I love this font, and I can’t wait to use it with my groups. Is there anyway to get the uppercase I with the line at the top and the bottom? My groups will have a hard time trying to figure out if it is a number or letter, even if we are practicing letters at the time. Thanks!

  3. Hi Leslie,
    I shared the starting dots teacher font twice on twitter, but I am still unable to download the font. Is there anyway you can help? Thanks!

  4. I love, love, love Leslie’s Hand for my classroom stuff! I am wondering if you’d ever be interested in adding the special characters- it would be a big help for the bilingual teachers! Thanks for sharing such great products with us.

      1. I just found your site – Thanks for everything! I am also wondering about accented and special characters. I teach french immersion and would love to have a font that I could use with all of my letters.

  5. I’m having trouble finding the fonts. I downloaded in two places, but can’t seem to find your fonts. I am a little, no totally at a loss with some computer skills. Please give me a hint. I really love your site and many of your activities which I have purchased from Teachers Pay Teachers and the Teacher’s Notebook. Thanks so much. An admiring computer disfunctional!

  6. Leslie, I have all 3 of these and LOVE them!! The “Leslie’s Hand” font is BEAUTIFUL for making flash cards and other word work activities. THANKS so much for sharing these. As always…you are amazing!

    1. Thanks Cindy – Hope your school year is going great so far! I appreciate your kind words and I’m so glad you love them! I had fun making some handwriting charts yesterday with the starting dots font… when I probably should’ve been writing lesson plans 😉
      – Leslie

  7. Thanks so much! I’m always on the lookout for cute readable fonts for documents I make for my students – like tests and things like that! 🙂

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