10 Telling Time Activities Kids Enjoy

Make a clock

Paper plate clock: write the numbers, then add two card hands with a split pin. Write the fives round the outside. Folded plate: fold it in half and in quarters to see where half past and quarter past come from. Sticky note clock: put number notes on the wall in a circle, and use two rulers as hands.

Get moving

Human clock: chalk a big circle outside, or use a hula hoop on the floor. Two children are the hands and the class calls the time. Run to the time: put number cards round the room, call a time, and everyone runs to where the long hand would point. Clock freeze: children stand with arms as hands and hold the time you call.

Play with it

Clock bingo: draw clocks on cards and call times. Time scavenger hunt: hide clock cards round the house, and put them in order of the day. My day chart: draw clocks for breakfast, school, dinner and bed, then check them against the real clock. Beat the clock: see how many star jumps fit into one minute, then guess how long a minute feels.

How to do it with Clockwood

1. Put the teaching clock on the board and call out a time for the human clock.
2. Print blank clock faces for a my-day chart.
3. Use draw-the-hands sheets as bingo cards.
4. Finish with a round of the free game.

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