🔢 Numbers & Counting
Trace Number 1
Ages 3–515
Numbers & Counting worksheets for 5 year olds
30 numbers & counting worksheets pitched at 5 year olds, free to print with no account and no watermark. 13 of the 30 are gentle starting points; the rest ask for more control.
Counting, numeral recognition and number formation from 1 to 10.
They assume a child who writes most uppercase and many lowercase letters, which is typical at five. If that is not there yet, the age 4 sheets are the better place to start.
Sheets in this set include Count and Circle the Number, Missing Numbers 1 to 20 and Count and Write How Many. Each is one page on A4, laid out with margins wide enough that nothing is lost printing on US Letter.
Sessions of ten to fifteen minutes work better than one long sitting. Print at 100% rather than fit-to-page — the gap between the guide lines is what tells a child how tall to make a letter, and shrinking it to 94% quietly undoes that.
What most 5 year olds can do
- •Writes most uppercase and many lowercase letters
- •Identifies beginning sounds in spoken words
- •Adds and subtracts small quantities using pictures
- •Completes and extends simple repeating patterns
Averages, not targets. Children vary enormously at this age.
