Dots & Spots - PRINT & PLAY

🎲 SPOTS & DOTS – Print & Play Fun for Early Number Sense! 🎲
Perfect for Nursery / P1 (Scotland) and Reception / Year 1 (England)

Looking for simple, joyful, and brain-boosting ways to explore numbers with your little learner?

Do you want to...

✔️ Explore the structure of numbers in a hands-on, visual way?
✔️ Build a deep and flexible understanding of what numbers really mean?
✔️ Lay strong foundations for confident, fluent maths later on?

Then our SPOTS & DOTS – Print and Play Pack is exactly what you need!

💡 What’s Inside?

This pack is bursting with 12+ rich, research-informed tasks that support young children in building a deep sense of number — all through play.

Using multiple representations like:

• Five Frames

• Ten Frames

• Hungarian Frames

• Number Paths (1–10)

…children are encouraged to see numbers, build numbers, and talk about numbers in ways that develop genuine number sense.

🎯 Why You’ll Love It:

🧠 Designed to support fluency, flexibility, and mathematical thinking
🃏 Includes 12 engaging game boards for easy-to-set-up, purposeful play
⏱️ Each game takes around 10 minutes – ideal for quick wins
🏡 Great for home or classroom use as part of a daily number fluency routine
💬 Builds confidence, language, and a LOVE of numbers!

🧾 This is a PRINT AND PLAY DOWNLOAD

Just print onto A4 paper or card, cut if needed, and you're ready to go.

You’ll need a few extra bits to play:
🎲 DOTTY DICE or NUMERAL DICE
🔴⚪ DOUBLE-SIDED COUNTERS (not included in the download)

🔒 A Friendly Note About Copyright:

Just like your favourite books or games, this download is protected by copyright.
Our licenses are for ONE grown-up and their learners — whether that’s a parent and child, or a teacher and class.

✔️ Teachers: Print as many as you need for your class
❌ Please don’t sell or redistribute the files
💖 Sharing with someone who can’t afford it? Yes please – keep spreading the love of maths.

If you know others who’d enjoy this resource, we’d be so grateful if you’d point them our way so they can purchase their own.

Print it. Play it. Spot it. Dot it.
And let your little ones build brilliant number sense from day one! 🌟

Our digital downloads are designed using A4 paper size, which is the standard in the UK and many other countries.

• A4 size = 210mm × 297mm (approx. 8.27 × 11.69 inches)

• US Letter size = 8.5 × 11 inches (slightly wider and shorter than A4)

What this means for printing in the US:
You can still print on US Letter paper — just make sure to select “Fit to page” or “Scale to fit” in your printer settings to avoid anything being cut off.

Alternatively, you can select “Actual size” if your printer margins allow it.

We usually recommend Kraft 300gsm  -  it holds colour beautifully and feels sturdy in little hands.