I love you in cursive
This is how I love you looks in school cursive: 8 letters, and the parts to watch are that ov is a high join, ve is a high join, ou is a high join and y goes below the line. Print the sheet below to practise it.
I love you written once as a model, then in grey to trace, then on empty lines to write alone.
Prints on US Letter and A4, in black and white. Free for home and classroom use.
How to write it, step by step
- Write capital I and carry its ending stroke straight into the next word.
- Join the rest of the letters without lifting your pencil: l, o, v, e, y, o and u.
- Watch the high joins (ov, ve and ou): after b, o, v or w, the next letter starts at the midline, not the baseline.
- Let the y drop below the baseline and loop back up through it.
- Leave a gap about the width of a small o between words.
All 8 letters, one by one
Tap a letter to see how it is written on its own.
Tips for each letter
- I
- Writing it like a print I with bars. Cursive I is one curving stroke that starts low.
- l
- Making the loop so thin it disappears, so l looks like a tall i without a dot. Keep the loop open.
- o
- Dropping the ending to the baseline. Cursive o ends high, so the next letter starts from the midline.
- v
- Dropping the ending to the baseline. v ends high, at the midline.
- e
- Making the loop too big, so e looks like l. The loop stays below the midline.
- y
- Leaving the loop open below the line. Bring the tail back up so it crosses at the baseline.
- u
- Rounding the bottom points into a w. Cursive u has two points at the top, not three.
All lowercase
i love you
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Questions parents ask
How do you write I love you in cursive?
Write capital I and carry its ending stroke straight into the next word. Join the rest of the letters without lifting your pencil: l, o, v, e, y, o and u. Watch the high joins (ov, ve and ou): after b, o, v or w, the next letter starts at the midline, not the baseline. Let the y drop below the baseline and loop back up through it. Leave a gap about the width of a small o between words.
How many letters are in I love you?
I love you has 8 letters: I, l, o, v, e, y, o, u.
Is I love you hard to write in cursive?
Most of it joins smoothly. The parts that need care: ov is a high join, ve is a high join, ou is a high join and y goes below the line. Trace it a few times on the sheet and it soon feels natural.