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Printable dice net

Six squares in a cross, spotted one to six, with a tab on each of the seven edges that has to be glued. Cut round the outside, fold every dotted line, and glue each tab inside the cube.

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Dice to cut out

Cut round the outside, fold along every dotted line, and glue each tab inside the cube.

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What is on this sheet

Opposite faces add to seven on a real die, and on a net that is not something you can check by looking. Which two squares end up opposite each other is a fact about the folding rather than about the drawing, so the numbering here is worked out from the folds instead of written on by hand — the column of four wraps the cube, which puts its first square opposite its third, and the two flaps end up opposite each other. A cube whose 6 lands next to its 1 rolls the same and is not a die.

Seven tabs, and exactly one on each join. A cube has twelve edges; five of them are folds in this layout, so seven need gluing — two tabs on one join is a lump that stops the cube closing, and none is a hole, and both are invisible until it has been cut out. Score the fold lines first by running a dry ballpoint down a ruler, and print on the heaviest paper the printer takes: at two inches a die in copier paper goes soft as soon as it is rolled.

Every rule, every box and every cut line on the page above is drawn as ink rather than as a background color, which is why it comes out of the printer looking like it does on screen: browsers throw background paint away unless somebody has ticked Background graphics, and a page of cut guides that printed invisibly is a page somebody cuts freehand. The lengths are in inches for a plainer reason still — a card that says it is three and three quarter inches wide is going to be measured, and a die that is not square does not fold up. The number in the footer is the seed the sheet was built from, so the identical sheet can be had again next term.

Change what is on it

This page is one sheet out of four families that between them print the forms, the week, the paper that gets cut up and the two things that are objects rather than pages. How many rows a chart has, how many cards there are to a page, how much room each answer gets, which verse is on it and whether a tag folds are all settings — so a chore chart with six rows, or a dated calendar for next March, is the same sheet with one control moved rather than a page somebody has to have written first.

The settings travel in the link rather than on a server, so a sheet you make can be bookmarked or sent to another family as it stands — and the Name: line, where a sheet has one, is printed blank, because there is nowhere in a shared link to put a child’s name. See what we don’t collect.

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