Number 18 Coloring Page

Eighteen is worth a second look, because an 8 can be written as one continuous loop without lifting a pencil. Most children draw it as two circles stacked up, and that habit is hard to shift later when they are writing quickly. Follow the line instead: start at the top, cross down to the left, round the bottom and come back up through the middle. Doing that a few times fixes the shape faster than copying it ever does. The number fills almost the whole page as two thick bubble outlines with nothing else drawn around them, which makes the 8 large enough to trace comfortably and leaves plenty of open space to color once the tracing is done. If your child wants a challenge, ask them to fill the two small holes inside the 8 in one color and the wide band running around them in another, so the path of the stroke stands out. Download the free PDF and print it at home on US Letter paper.