Number 18 — eighteen. The tricky snowman 8 gets another outing after the 1, with eighteen balloons in rows of five, five, five, and three. Two dotted tracing rows, the free row, and the word eighteen.
Eighteen saves the hardest digit for near the end: the snowman 8, written after an easy straight 1. All the 8 practice from earlier in the set pays off here. The eighteen balloons are arranged five, five, five, and three, and coloring each row its own color turns one long count into four short, easy ones.
Extension: count eighteen steps down the hallway or eighteen seconds of holding a silly pose. Then draw eighteen balloon strings in the margin tied to one big ribbon, and count them in rows like the sheet does — five, ten, fifteen, and three more makes eighteen.
