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Trace the numbers 1 to 10
The first ten numbers, in the order a child meets them, one practice row each. Free printable tracing sheets with the stroke order marked and a ruling to sit the writing on.
- Letter & A4, portrait or landscape
- Real stroke centrelines, not outlines
- Change the size and reprint
Trace the numbers 1 to 10
NameStart on the dot and follow the arrow. Trace the faint ones, then write your own.
This is page one of 2 at the default size. Open it in the maker to print the rest, choose a range, or fit more on a page.
About this sheet
One to ten is where counting and writing first meet. A child at this stage can usually count further than they can write, and the gap is normal — saying "seven" is recall, making a 7 is a motor skill that needs the hand, the eye and the memory of a path all at once. Which is why these sheets give one number per row rather than mixing them: the whole row is the same shape repeated, so the hand can learn it before the page asks for anything else.
Why it is drawn this way
This range includes the one two-digit number a child meets early, and 10 is genuinely harder than it looks — not because either digit is difficult, but because they have to be spaced. On these sheets the gap between digits is a constant rather than the advance being constant, which is what the eye actually reads. Spacing every glyph on a fixed advance is what a tabular figure does, and it assumes all digits are the same width; the 0 here is 49.4 units wide and the 1 is 20.8, so a fixed advance literally overlapped the two halves of "10".