Help your students strengthen both their time-telling skills and fine motor development with the interactive Telling Time Task Cards: Clip the Time! This engaging task card resource encourages students to identify time expressions while practising accurate clipping with wooden pegs - adding a tactile element to your time lessons.

This set includes 48 colourful task cards. Each card displays a watch showing a time in digital form. Students must read the time and clip the corresponding time expression on the card using a peg. For example, if the clock displays 8:15, students will clip the box labelled “quarter past eight.” The activity covers times to the hour, quarter past, half past, and quarter to the hour, providing valuable practise across key time concepts.

Telling Time Task Cards: Clip the Time is a low-prep and versatile resource, perfectly sized to fit in a Kmart rainbow photo storage container for easy organisation. It is suitable for independent use or small group rotations, and it adds a fine motor element that supports younger learners and those needing additional hands-on practice. Be sure to explore the other Telling Time Task Card Sets in this range for even more time-telling fun!

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Practise reading and interpreting digital times
• ✅ Match digital times to their corresponding time expressions
• ✅ Strengthen understanding of key time intervals: o’clock, quarter past, half past, quarter to
• ✅ Develop fine motor skills through clipping activities
• ✅ Support independent and collaborative learning with interactive task cards

What’s Included:

• 48 task cards featuring:
• - Watch images displaying digital times
• - Time expression choices for clipping
• Instructions for flexible classroom use

Materials Needed:

• Printed task cards (cut and prepared)
• Wooden pegs for clipping
• Storage container (Kmart rainbow photo storage recommended)
• Optional: recording sheets for student responses

How to Use:

1. Print and prepare the task cards, cutting them as needed.
2. Introduce or review key time expressions with your students.
3. Have students independently or in small groups read each digital time and clip the correct time expression using a wooden peg.
4. Encourage students to verbalise their reasoning as they complete each match.
5. Provide opportunities for peer checking or group discussion to reinforce understanding.

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Include in maths rotations for hands-on time practise
• 💡 Use as a fine motor warm-up during your time lessons
• 💡 Provide as a fast finisher activity for early finishers
• 💡 Support EAL learners with visual and tactile engagement
• 💡 Laminate cards for durability and long-term classroom use

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Laminate the task cards to ensure durability and repeated use
• 💛 Store in a Kmart rainbow photo storage container for easy organisation
• 💛 Encourage collaborative learning by having students work in pairs or small groups
• 💛 Use pegs in different colours to add variety or to assign group sets

Telling Time Task Cards: Clip the Time offers a fun and effective way to practise time-telling skills while supporting fine motor development. With its flexible, hands-on format, it’s a fantastic addition to your time-telling resource collection!

The other Telling Time Task Card Sets in this range are also available for download:

• Before & After
• Hands of Time
• It’s About Time
• Solving Time
• Spin & Cover
• Time Expression
• Time Check
• Time Pattern
• Time to Match
• Roll & Draw
• What’s the Time?