Help your students build time-telling confidence with our creative and engaging Clockapillar’s Busy Day: Analog Clock Worksheets! This fun, caterpillar-themed activity supports students as they practise reading and matching times to the hour, half hour and quarter hour. With a playful storyline and opportunities for drawing or writing, this worksheet turns telling time into a meaningful and imaginative experience.

Students will explore what a busy day might look like for the charming Clockapillar character—imagining where he might be and what he might be doing at key points throughout the day. As they work through the sheet, students draw or write ideas for each time (e.g. 6 o’clock, 9:30, 12:15), then match the written time with an analog clock using coloured markers or pencils. This multi-step process supports both time comprehension and written expression in a scaffolded and creative format.

Clockapillar’s Busy Day progresses in difficulty as students move through the activity. They’ll practise telling time to the hour, then the half hour, and finally the quarter hour. This gradual increase in challenge makes the worksheet suitable for a range of learners and perfect for building foundational time-telling skills.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Read and interpret analog clocks to the hour, half hour and quarter hour
• ✅ Match written times with visual clock representations
• ✅ Use time cues to imagine and sequence parts of a day
• ✅ Develop fine motor skills and time vocabulary through drawing or writing
• ✅ Strengthen conceptual understanding of daily routines and time patterns

What’s Included:

• Clockapillar-themed time worksheet with written times and analog clocks
• Designated spaces for drawing or writing time-linked activities
• Clocks featuring hour, half hour and quarter hour intervals

Materials Needed:

• Printed worksheet (one per student)
• Coloured pencils or markers for matching
• Optional: mini clocks or whiteboards for modelling time

How to Use:

1. Introduce the Clockapillar character and discuss possible daily routines.
2. Students choose a setting (e.g. school, beach, carnival) and imagine what Clockapillar is doing at each written time.
3. They draw or write their idea under each time label.
4. Students match each written time to the correct analog clock using coloured lines, circles or underlines.
5. Optional: share completed sheets in pairs or small groups to discuss different interpretations.

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Use during a maths unit on time as an independent or rotation task
• 💡 Assign for morning work with a time-telling focus
• 💡 Pair with real or plastic clocks for kinaesthetic learning opportunities
• 💡 Display completed Clockapillars to create a class timeline of imaginative daily routines
• 💡 Combine with writing time prompts in literacy to reinforce daily sequencing

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Encourage students to say each time aloud before finding the matching clock
• 💛 Provide a time vocabulary anchor chart or number line of daily routines
• 💛 Allow students to work in pairs for collaborative discussion and support
• 💛 Use coloured coding to link written times and clocks clearly without covering student work

Clockapillar’s Busy Day: Analog Clock Worksheets make learning to tell time fun, visual and creative—perfect for strengthening both time recognition and sequencing in a hands-on way.