Give your students plenty of practise in drawing clock hands with the interactive Telling Time Task Cards: Hands of Time! This versatile task card activity helps reinforce the essential skill of accurately showing time on an analogue clock - a key learning outcome for developing confident time-tellers.

The set includes 48 colourful task cards that support students in drawing both the hour and minute hands to match a given time. Students begin by reading the provided time, then carefully draw the clock hands on the blank clock face. This activity covers times to the hour, quarter past, half past, and quarter to the hour, offering comprehensive practise across key intervals.

Telling Time Task Cards: Hands of Time is a low-prep resource, perfectly sized to fit in a Kmart rainbow photo storage container for easy organisation. For added engagement, you can sort the cards into four colour groups and run a fun mini-game - the first team to correctly draw the hands on all their cards wins! The set is suitable for both individual and small group learning. Be sure to explore the other Telling Time Task Card Sets in this range for even more time-telling practise!

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Practise reading and interpreting written time
• ✅ Develop accuracy in drawing the hour and minute hands on an analogue clock
• ✅ Strengthen understanding of time intervals: o’clock, quarter past, half past, quarter to
• ✅ Build fluency in representing time in visual form
• ✅ Support independent and collaborative learning with hands-on practise

What’s Included:

• 48 colourful task cards featuring:
• - Written times to read
• - Blank analogue clock faces for students to draw the time
• Four colour groups (purple, orange, blue, green) for game-based learning
• Instructions for flexible classroom use

Materials Needed:

• Printed task cards (cut and prepared)
• Pencils or whiteboard markers for drawing clock hands
• Storage container (Kmart rainbow photo storage recommended)

How to Use:

1. Print and prepare the task cards for classroom use.
2. Introduce or review key strategies for accurately drawing clock hands with your students.
3. Have students independently or in small groups read each time and draw the corresponding hour and minute hands on the blank clock face.
4. For a fun team game, sort the cards into four colour groups and divide your class into matching teams. The first team to correctly complete all their cards wins!
5. Encourage collaborative discussion and peer checking to reinforce understanding and accuracy.

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Include in maths rotations as a targeted clock-drawing activity
• 💡 Use as an independent task to reinforce accurate time representation
• 💡 Provide for early finishers to build fluency with drawing clock hands
• 💡 Support EAL learners with scaffolded small group practise and guided modelling
• 💡 Laminate cards for durability and repeated use in classroom stations

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Laminate the task cards for long-term use and durability
• 💛 Store in a Kmart rainbow photo storage container for easy access and organisation
• 💛 Model how to accurately position the hour and minute hands before independent practise
• 💛 Use the colour-coded groups to run engaging small group competitions

Telling Time Task Cards: Hands of Time is a fun and effective way to help your students master the skill of drawing time accurately on an analogue clock. With its flexible format and game-based options, it’s a valuable addition to your classroom time resources!

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

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