Name Tracing Sheets

Cursive B: capital B and lowercase b

Three pages to trace: capital B, lowercase b, and bat, bed and bird joined. The letters print in light gray without arrows, so the steps below say where each stroke goes.

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Printed sample: Cursive B: capital B and lowercase b
The first page with the default settings, as it prints on US Letter paper.

How to write a cursive capital B

  1. Start at the top line with a small hook and pull a slant down to the baseline.
  2. Go back up the same line to the top, curve out to the right and around to the midline, and make a tiny loop there.
  3. From the loop, curve out again, a little wider, around to the baseline and back in toward the slant.

On these sheets the letter after capital B starts on its own.

How to write a cursive lowercase b

  1. From the baseline, swing up to the top line, loop back to the left and pull a slant down to the baseline.
  2. Without lifting, curve up and around to the right to just below the midline and come back in to close a small bump.
  3. End with a short flat stroke to the right at the midline.

Joining cursive b to other letters

b is one of four lowercase letters (b, o, v, w) that finish at the midline, not on the baseline. The next letter joins from up there with a short sidestroke. In be and bi the join dips down to make the e or the i; in ba it runs along the midline into the top of the a; in br it barely has room for the point of the r.

Going into b is easy: it starts with an upstroke from the baseline, so ab, eb and ub flow. The usual mistake is letting the end of b fall to the baseline, which turns the bump into an open hook.

Cursive B and print B

Print b is a tall line and a ball. Cursive b has a loop at the top and a small closed bump instead of the ball, and it ends high. Capital B is the closest to print among the looped capitals, but it begins with a hook, and its two bumps meet in a small loop at the midline.

Print B with starting dots and arrows: letter B tracing worksheets.

Cursive b words

bat, bed, bird, boat, bubble.

Previous: cursive A. Next: cursive C. All 26 letters: cursive alphabet worksheets.

Questions

Why does cursive b end at the dashed line?

The small bump on the right closes at the midline, and the joining stroke leaves from there. Ending at the baseline leaves the bump open and makes b look like an l followed by a u.

How is cursive b different from cursive l?

They start with the same tall loop. l comes straight down and leaves from the baseline; b comes down, swings up into a small bump, and leaves from the midline.

How do you join two b’s, as in bubble?

The first b ends at the midline, so the stroke into the second b goes up from there to the top line and loops. Keep both loops the same height; the join between them is short and high.