Free number tracing worksheets, 0 to 9
Ten printable pages, one for each digit. Each page shows the number large, with a green dot numbered for where each stroke starts and a red arrow for the way it goes. Below that are rows of the number in dots to trace, then rows with one dotted number and room to write it alone.
Download the worksheets (PDF, 10 pages)8.5" × 11", about 75 KB. The lines are 1" from top to bottom, the Trace Press setting for ages 4–5. No sign-up. A small footer line on each page says where it came from.
How each number is written
The start dots and arrows follow a published school number formation chart. A school's number rhymes describe the same strokes for all ten digits.
| Number | Start | Then |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | top | round to the left, all the way back to the top |
| 1 | top | straight down |
| 2 | top left | curve over the top and down to the bottom left, then across the bottom |
| 3 | top left | a little curve round to the middle, then another round to the bottom |
| 4 | top left | down to the middle and across; lift; then a long line down on the right |
| 5 | top left | down to the middle and round; lift; then the top line, last |
| 6 | top | down and round to the left into a loop at the bottom |
| 7 | top left | across the top, then a slanted line down |
| 8 | top | an S to the bottom, then a line back up to the start |
| 9 | top right | a little circle round to the left, then a line straight down |
Numbers in a tracing book for KDP
The same ten pages can go into an A–Z letter tracing workbook you publish on Amazon KDP. Open Trace Press with Numbers 0–9 ticked and the book is the 26 letter pages, then 0 to 9: 36 pages, with a full-wrap cover sized to match. You can add practice words after the numbers too, up to 42 of them.
For black ink on Amazon.com, KDP charges one flat printing price for any paperback of 24 to 110 pages, so the number pages add nothing to the printing cost: $2.84 a copy at 8.5" × 11". The handwriting workbook guide has the full price table.
Printing figure from KDP's Paperback Printing Cost help page for the Amazon.com marketplace.
Making the book is free, with a footer line on every page and PREVIEW on the cover. $19 once removes both, for every book you make after.
More free pages
- Name tracing worksheet: type a child's name and print one page. Numbers work there too.
- Sight word tracing workbook: the Dolch pre-primer book as a free 66-page PDF.
- Handwriting paper: blank four-line guides to print.