Make an Easy Clock for Teaching Time

So many of us rely on digital clock (or reading the time on our phones), but it’s still important for kids to learn how to tell time using a clock with hands.

This easy DIY clock from Playdough and Popsicles is a great way to help kids learn about time. She used a cardboad pizza round, but you could cut a round out of cardboard or even use a square or rectangular piece.

The numbers and hands of the clock are made out of foam, so you might have everything you need to make this already in your house.

The post also gives some ideas for helping kids learn about time, such as talking about what time it is and when things happen in your routine, reading books about time and using videos or apps to help teach about time.

If you have other ideas you’ve used to teach about time, I’d love to hear them!

[Photo via Playdough and Popsicles.]

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

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