Rows of handwriting lines for the number 8: copy the solid 8, then trace the dotted ones. How to form it: Start like an S, then go back up to close it: a snowman made of two circles. Before writing, count out eight crayons together, so the numeral means an amount and not just a shape.

Before the pencil, let the child draw the shape big in the air or with a finger on the table, saying the strokes out loud. Then trace on paper. Praise the best one in each row rather than pointing out the wobbly ones.