Before the first answer.

Simple printables for the littles.

A worksheet asks for 7. These ask a child to be able to make a 7. Tracing sheets for numbers, shapes, pre-writing strokes and the math signs — every one drawn as the path a pencil travels, with the start point ringed and the stroke order marked.

  • Real stroke centrelines
  • Choose the size and the help
  • Letter & A4 ready

Why these are not dotted outlines

Almost every tracing sheet you can print is a font with a dashed border. That asks a child to trace around the edge of a hollow letter, which is colouring-in. A formation sheet needs the centreline — the single path a pencil tip travels, in teaching order — and there is no way to get one out of a font. Every character here was drawn by hand as an open curve, then measured against nine real typefaces until its proportions matched.

Before numbers

The strokes and shapes a hand learns before it can make a digit.

The numbers

Numeral formation, with stroke order and a start point on every digit.

The signs

The marks every arithmetic worksheet assumes a child can already write.