4 Easy At-Home Ideas to Help Your Child With Number Writing

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For most of the activities below, you can use the same ideas so your child knows what to do, but changing the medium helps keep it interesting and fun!

You can use numbers for tracing like these, or cards like these for tracing, or add an extra element of difficulty by having them pick a card or roll some dice and write the number they pick or roll.

Water Painting

This activity is perfect for hot summer days! All you need is a cup and a paintbrush! Using any method listed above, have your child “paint” the numbers on walls or the ground with water, the best part, it dries down with no mess!

Sand Writing

A favorite way to have your kids or students practice writing numbers is to write or trace numbers in sand. The multi-sensory nature of sand writing helps with memory retention and recall. Writing in sand is a great way to support fine motor skills, enhance sensory input, plus it can be relaxing and fun!

Gel Writing

Much like sand writing, writing in gel has similar effects and can be neater than writing in sand! To make gel writing bags, you can pick up gel from the dollar store and put it in a plastic bag with some food coloring and lay it on top of the number or numbers your child is working on.

Pro Tip! Tape or double-bag the gel to avoid spilling! 

Adapting for Older Students

If your child knows their numbers and does not need practice counting, you can easily adapt these activities for addition or subtraction or larger numbers!

Instead of telling them which number to write, or rolling a die, you can have them give you the sum or difference of equations. For example, you can say write the answer to 4 + 3, and they would write 7, or increase the number range like 11 + 8, and they would write 19.

If you want them to practice larger numbers, you could have them write double-digit numbers, you say, like write 23 or roll two dice (or pick two cards) as the double-digit number. If you are rolling two dice and they roll a 6 and a 7, they would write 67, and so on. This way, you can get older kids involved too!

Number Writing Workbook

If you are looking for something quick and easy, and it is not your average number tracing book, you can get this one here! Inside, you will find number tracing practice, number mazes, and counting practice to 20! Perfect for supporting your Kindergartener or rising First Grader! 

What’s Inside

Part 1: Simple tracing number writing practice with visual cues for correct number formation.

Part 2: Number Mazes! Trace the target number until you reach the finish line!

Part 3: Bring in some number sense and number recognition, by tracing, coloring the value of the number, and finding the number in a field!