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Tracing worksheets in your school’s handwriting
Names, letters, numbers, words, shapes and pictures. Pick what to trace, choose your school’s style, and print a page for every child.
Choose your handwriting style
Each maker uses letters modelled on the style taught in that place’s schools, with the right paper size and year levels.
- United States
Print (upright)Make worksheets - United States
Slanted print (D’Nealian-style)Make worksheets - United States
CursiveMake worksheets - New South Wales
NSW Foundation styleMake worksheets - Queensland
QLD Beginners styleMake worksheets - Victoria
Victorian Modern CursiveMake worksheets - New Zealand
NZ Basic styleMake worksheets - United Kingdom
Pre-cursiveMake worksheets
A class set in under a minute
Type or paste names
One name, or your whole class list with one name per line.
Choose a style and size
Pick the handwriting your school teaches and a size for the grade.
Preview, then print
Check every page, then download one PDF with a page per child.
What’s on every page
A simple, proven sequence: look, trace, then write alone. Every row has the same four lines children see on school paper.
- Model row
- The name in solid letters to look at first.
- Tracing rows
- Light grey letters to trace over, 1 to 6 rows.
- Blank rows
- The same lines, empty, to write the name alone.
- Handwriting lines
- Top line, dashed midline, baseline and a tail line.
Your class list never leaves your device
Children’s names are personal. We built NeatPencil so they’re never sent anywhere.
- Made in your browserPages and PDFs are built on your device, not on our servers.
- Nothing storedNo accounts, no saved lists, no names in web addresses.
- Gone with the tabClose the tab and the names disappear.
Questions
Is it really free?
Yes. There’s no sign-up, no trial and no limit on how many worksheets you make. The site is paid for by advertising, never by selling anything you type.
Can I make worksheets for my whole class at once?
Yes. Paste up to 100 names, one per line, or import the list from a spreadsheet, and download one PDF with a page for each child. If you have more than 100, the preview page offers the rest as a second set, already filled in.
Can I trace other words, not just names?
Yes. The word maker has ready-made lists of sight words, days, months, colours and more, and takes any list you type, one word or short phrase per line: fruits, planets, this week’s spelling words. Each line becomes its own page.
Which style does my school use?
Ask your child’s teacher, or compare the samples above with the alphabet chart on the classroom wall. In Australia the style usually follows the state: NSW Foundation style, Queensland Beginners or Victorian Modern Cursive. In the United States, schools choose their own program, so upright print, slanted print and cursive are all common.
Are these the official school fonts?
Mostly not. The letters come from free, openly licensed fonts modelled on each school style, so they follow the same shapes, slant and joins, but small details can differ from your department’s own font. The exception is New Zealand, where the Ministry of Education now models handwriting with the Playwrite New Zealand fonts, the family our NZ style uses. Check a page against your school’s chart before printing a class set.
How do I print at the right size?
Print at actual size (100%), not “fit to page”, on the paper you chose: A4 or US Letter. Then the letters come out exactly at the height you picked.