Count the dots, and see what is hiding
A hundred and forty little counts to six is a lot of counting. It stops feeling like a drill somewhere around the tenth piece, when a heart or a sailboat starts to show.
Count, look up, color — piece by piece.
A count-and-color mystery picture generator, printable as a PDF. The page is cut into jigsaw pieces, each with one to six dots, and a key at the top gives every number of dots a color. The child counts the dots in each piece and colors it, and a picture of two to six colors appears — one of thirty-two, from a house with a red roof and a sailboat under a pink sky to a school bus, a rocket, a ladybug and a castle, and a batch of sheets never repeats one. Pick the counting: one to four dots set out like dice, one to six like dice, or one to six scattered, so every piece has to be counted rather than recognized. A new picture and new dots every sheet, and the answer key colors the whole puzzle in.
1 token a sheet, fewer in batches.
US Letter PDF — prints on any home printer.
Count
The dots in one piece.
Look up
That number in the key, and the color above it.
Color
The whole piece that color. Keep going until the picture shows.
Dots
Dice faces can be seen without counting; scattered dots have to be counted. Either way, coloring the pieces by the key brings out a hidden picture.
Your worksheet lands here — download, print, or email it.