Support time-telling skills with this fun and hands-on Tick Tock Clock Craftivity! Students can create their own bright and interactive clock using numbers and movable clock hands. This engaging activity provides valuable practise in representing time and helps build understanding of how clocks work in a visual and tactile way.

Students assemble their own clock and use a split pin to attach the minute and hour hands, allowing them to move the hands and practise showing different times. The range of included templates ensures differentiation for your students, with options for o’clock, half-hour, quarter past, and quarter to times. It’s a fantastic way to support both individual practise and whole-class exploration of time concepts.

Tick Tock Clock Craftivity is perfect for consolidating time-telling skills, supporting fine motor development, and creating a resource that students can continue to use as a reference tool throughout the year.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Build understanding of how analogue clocks represent time
• ✅ Practise reading and showing o’clock, half-hour, quarter past, and quarter to times
• ✅ Develop fine motor skills through hands-on assembly
• ✅ Promote independent learning and personal ownership of resources
• ✅ Support differentiated time-telling practise for a range of learners

What’s Included:

• Clock face templates
• Number templates for clock faces
• Movable clock hands (hour and minute)
• Templates differentiated for: - O’clock times - Half-hour times - Quarter past times - Quarter to times

Materials Needed:

• Printed Tick Tock Clock Craftivity templates
• Scissors
• Glue sticks
• Split pins (for attaching movable clock hands)
• Coloured pencils, crayons, or markers (optional, for decorating)

How to Use:

1. Print the Tick Tock Clock Craftivity templates.
2. Have students cut out the clock face, numbers, and clock hands.
3. Students glue the numbers onto the clock face to create their clock.
4. Attach the hour and minute hands to the centre of the clock face using a split pin.
5. Students can move the clock hands to practise showing and reading different times.

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Use as a maths rotation activity to support time-telling practise.
• 💡 Have students use their completed clocks to show times called out by the teacher.
• 💡 Pair with a written time-matching activity where students show a time and record it digitally.
• 💡 Send completed clocks home to encourage ongoing practise with families.

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Model how to accurately place the numbers on the clock face before students begin assembling.
• 💛 Provide visual support for correct positioning of hour and minute hands.
• 💛 Differentiate by assigning templates based on student readiness (start with o’clock, then progress to more complex times).
• 💛 Laminate clock faces and hands before assembly for extra durability if you want to use them throughout the year.

Tick Tock Clock Craftivity is a fun and interactive way to support time-telling practise. It’s an engaging craft that helps students build ownership of their learning while providing an ongoing resource for hands-on exploration of time!