About Iowa
Iowa is one of the country's leading corn- and soybean-growing states, with farmland covering most of the state, and Des Moines, its capital, holds the Iowa State Fair every summer, one of the largest and oldest state fairs in the country. Iowa is also the first state to vote in the presidential nominating process every four years.
This state's featured city
Des Moines is the city featured for Iowa on this site. Trace the worksheet below, or use the interactive tool to make one for any other Iowa city or town.
Using an "I Live in Des Moines" worksheet
Print the worksheet at full size and have the child say "I live in Des Moines" aloud before and after tracing it — pairing the spoken phrase with the written word helps the city name feel like a real, personally meaningful fact rather than an arbitrary word to copy.
Other states on this site
Des Moines is one of fifty featured cities covered here, one per state — see the full city tracing overview to browse every state's featured city, or jump directly to a neighboring state.
Pairing Iowa's city with a child's own name
Practicing Des Moines alongside a child's own name tracing worksheet builds a small set of personal facts a child can write confidently — their name, and where they live — well before they're writing full sentences.