About Kansas
Kansas sits almost exactly in the geographic center of the contiguous United States and is one of the country's top wheat-growing states, with vast, flat farmland stretching across much of it. Wichita, its largest city, is known as "the Air Capital of the World" for its long history of aircraft manufacturing.
This state's featured city
Wichita is the city featured for Kansas on this site. Trace the worksheet below, or use the interactive tool to make one for any other Kansas city or town.
Using an "I Live in Wichita" worksheet
Print the worksheet at full size and have the child say "I live in Wichita" 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
Wichita 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 Kansas's city with a child's own name
Practicing Wichita 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.