Printable spinner template

The sectors are equal, and they are equal by construction rather than by having been drawn carefully: a whole turn is divided by how many there are, and there is nowhere for a longer label to buy itself a wider slice. That matters because "do you think this is fair?" is the question the object exists to answer. A spinner whose sectors had been sized by how much text was on them would teach the opposite of the answer, and a child would have no way of telling.

The pointer is cut from the same sheet, which is why the dial is not as large as the page would allow — the paper has to hold both, so the circle is sized against what is left after the arrow rather than against the margin. A split pin is the fastener this is drawn for; a paper clip opened out and bent over on the back works, and a pencil point held through the middle does not, because the arrow has to turn without being held.

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.

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.