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.
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."
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!)
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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Diane Bode says
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!!!
Leslie @KindergartenWorks says
Hi Diane, I don't know of another to recommend but I made this one using an iPad app - so you could always give it a go!
Thanks,
Leslie
Diane Bode says
Thanks. I didn't think to look for an iPad app.
Christina says
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!
Leslie @KindergartenWorks says
Hi Christina, It is what it is!
Thanks,
Leslie
Jen says
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!
Leslie @KindergartenWorks says
I sent you an email Jen. Thanks for sharing!
- Leslie
ksk says
Do you happen to know if there is a "Starting dot" ONLY font?
Leslie @KindergartenWorks says
Nope 😉
Erin Horn says
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.
Leslie @KindergartenWorks says
Thanks for sharing. I've never considered how to even do those special characters. I may have to dig back into the app!
- Leslie
Tamara Harder says
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.
Karen Nelson says
These are fantastic! I've been looking for a tracing font like this for a long time! Thank you!
Alexis Marie says
Leslie, I love your fonts! I used the font 'Leslie's Hand' to create some new teacher materials! Thank you so much for sharing!!
- Alexis
http://busyworldofroom201.blogspot.com/
Leslie @KindergartenWorks says
You're so welcome Alexis! I think I found some cute word wall letters to share 😉 I appreciate you taking the time to let me know. Happy creating!
- Leslie
Klw4269 says
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!
Leslie @KindergartenWorks says
Thanks so much KLW for your nice comments! Can either of these tutorials help out? http://www.dafont.com/faq.php Your download will be in a zipped folder, so right click and unzip or extract the files. Then you'll want to copy or drag the font file (the .ttf one) into your fonts folder on your computer.
Kindergartenblossoms says
the ten frame font is a GREAT idea!
Thanks for sharing!! 🙂
Liz at http://kindergarten-blossoms.blogspot.com.au/
Leslie @KindergartenWorks says
Thanks Liz! Sometimes I find myself thinking in ten frames 😉
Cindy B says
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!
Leslie @KindergartenWorks says
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
Leslie @KindergartenWorks says
Thanks Bobbie!
- Leslie
Jessica Spencer says
I love fonts! Thanks for sharing!
Jessica
Learn, Play & Have Fun
Leslie @KindergartenWorks says
You know I'm right there with you loving fonts 😉
Thanks Jessica! - Leslie
Jenny says
These are fabulous! Thanks for sharing. I like to use HelloDeNealie by Hello Literacy for almost all my teacher created materials!
Jenny
Owl Things First!
Leslie @KindergartenWorks says
Thanks Jenny for sharing the font you love to use!
- Leslie
Jill Draffkorn says
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! 🙂
Leslie @KindergartenWorks says
Thanks for stopping by Jill!
- Leslie