Trace the Sky

Trace the Sky is a sunny handwriting game for young children. A little plane writes in the sky: follow the dots of a capital letter, stroke by stroke, and the trail stays behind as a big fluffy cloud letter. When the letter is done it curls up and pops into something that starts with it. A is for apple, Z is for zebra.

On a phone or tablet, press on the plane at the green number and drag along the dots. With a mouse, hold the button and do the same. On a computer keyboard, the arrow keys fly the plane, and two at once make a slant. From the second sky on, three things float up on clouds: tap the one that starts with the letter, or use Left, Right and Space.

Four skies a run, morning to night: straight letters, slanted letters, then curves. Stray too far from the dots and a balloon pops, but the plane keeps its place. Three balloons are your tries, and everyone gets the same letters each day. Calm sky goes through the whole alphabet from A to Z with a wider line, no balloons to lose and no score, and it remembers where you stopped.