In teaching children, it is very important to teach them to navigate in time. But not always and not every child is given with ease. In order to make the learning process entertaining and useful, you can make a real alarm clock. Craft clock from improvised materials. And if you do creativity with a child, then the material will be assimilated without problems.

To make an alarm clock, we need the following materials:

• thick cardboard
• cardboard for creativity
• CD disc
• sheet of white paper
• thermal gun (hot glue)
• bead
• gouache paint
• art or stationery knife
• pliers
• carnation for making jewelry or a piece of wire

Craft a watch from a disk and paper with your own hands a master class with a photo and a step-by-step description

Before proceeding directly to the manufacture of watches, we need:

1 Print out the watch parts template and dial.

2 On full cardboard (a cardboard box is best), we circle the part of the stand for the alarm clock.

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We cut out the stand with an art or clerical knife. We carry out cutting on a rubberized mat so as not to damage the working surface of the table.

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Cut out the numbers for the dial.

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From ordinary cardboard for creativity, we cut out the horns of the alarm clock and paint it red with gouache paint.

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Take a CD and hot glue four numbers in a red frame: three, six, nine and twelve.

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Between them we place the numbers in a blue frame in order.

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According to the template, we cut out the hands (minute and hour), as well as two circles. Coloring the minute hand White color, hourly in brown or black. Paint two circles yellow and the watch stand in brown on both sides.

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Glue the alarm horns on top of the number twelve with hot glue.

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Now let's deal with the arrow mechanism. To do this, take two circles, a carnation for creating jewelry and an arrow, having previously made holes in the circles and arrows.

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We pass the carnation through the holes of the hands, the white minute should be located on top of the brown hour.

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Next, we put one circle on the carnation.

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We put the finished arrow structure into the hole in the disk.

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On the reverse side of the carnation we string the second circle.

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We put on a bead from above, after which we bend the end of the carnation with pliers.

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The hands are ready to show the right time.

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Now take the stand and bend it in half along the fold line.

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We place our alarm clock in the cut holes.

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The alarm clock is ready. Thanks to the rotating hands, you can set any time, and also, you can easily teach your child to determine what time it is.

20 Here is such an Craft clock from a disk and paper turned out with our own hands. It is very easy to make it using our master class.

When a child turns 4-5 years old, he begins to take an active interest in the life of adults, ask various questions. This is the most suitable age to teach your child the concept of time. ? Children's watches help to master it, especially if you make them together with mom or dad, explaining to the baby in the manufacturing process their purpose and rules of use. We invite you to familiarize yourself with several simple master classes on how to make children's watches out of cardboard with your own hands.

Craft "Cardboard Clock"

A preschooler can make a homemade toy clock out of cardboard with the ability to move the hands himself. By studying them during the game, he will easily learn this science.

1. Cut out from thick cardboard different colors two circles. To do this, you can use compasses or large plates.
2. Now you need to cut out the hands of the clock (use cardboard in a contrasting color) and, if desired, a border for the base sheet on which the clock will be glued. The base is needed for the strength of the product.
3. Glue the smaller circle to the center of the larger one.
4. Then stick the blank for the clock on a white sheet of cardboard (it is advisable to take the material denser).
5. Fix the clock hands with a bolt in the center of the circle so that both of them move well around the center.
6. Stick on the border.
7. Label the time on the clock. To begin with, you can introduce the child only to hours (from 1 to 12), and when he masters this, then with minutes. The inscriptions must be made along the edge of the outer, large circle.
8. Let your little one decorate their first watch with stickers or other decorative elements.

Cardboard clock for children

1. These watches can be made from cardboard, bright colored caps and clockwork.
2. Prepare a sheet of corrugated cardboard (for example, from a box or crate).
3. Arrange 13 multi-colored caps for vitamins, yogurt, etc. (you can replace them with large buttons) in a circle. Think about what the diameter of the future watch should be.
4. Cut out a circle from cardboard - the base of the clock and use an angular ruler to mark the location of the covers on it.
5. Using a hot glue gun, glue the lids evenly spaced from the center and apart.
6. With a black marker, circle and paint over the edges of the circle.
7. Now make a hole exactly in the center of the circle (corrugated cardboard is easily pierced with a pencil).
8. Install the clock mechanism and fasten the hands. Glue a cardboard circle with a number into the center of each cap.
9. Insert a battery into the clock and set the time.

Marina Suzdaleva

The concept of time is quite abstract and difficult to understand in childhood. It is difficult for kids to learn how seconds add up to minutes, hours, days, and those, in turn, into weeks, months, years and centuries. That is why, in order to simplify the task and make it more clear, enthusiastic mothers make various educational aids, posters, calendars, sensory boxes and do-it-yourself watches for children.

On the eve of the start of the new game course "" the Club of Enthusiastic Moms holds a competition of manuals and crafts on the theme "Time". All the submitted works are very interesting, and I am sure that among them you will find an inspiring idea for creating your own developmental manual.

Opening "Seasons" in the developing book

is coming summer period trips, therefore, in the development of sketches of the pages of our first developing book, which will be very useful on the road. So I decided that let one spread be dedicated to the seasons.

The idea of ​​\u200b\u200bcreation is a tree that changes its “outfit” depending on. A little hint in the color of the name of the season. And all the letters and "outfits" in the bag next to the page.

To make the pages of a developing book, we need:

1. Miscellaneous fabric. For the page itself - cotton, for wood - fabric Brown color(felt, leather, etc.), for all details - hard felt of various colors;
2. A wavy brown ribbon that we will sew onto a tree trunk;
3. Threads blue color with which we will embroider snowflakes;
4. Velcro, which hold the outfits of the tree and the names of the seasons.

Process of creation:

1. Cut out the tree trunk. We attach ribbons;
2. We cut out all the details from felt in two copies; we sew the hard part of the Velcro on one part of the part, then sew it with the second part;
3. We sew the soft part of the Velcro onto the page itself, where we want to place foliage, flowers;
4. We also sew a soft Velcro on the other page of the spread, on which we will attach the name of the seasons;
5. We sew a bag in which we will store "outfits" and letters.

Work is ready!

Mom Gavrilova Faina and daughter Taisiya, 1 year old. 2 months, Arkhangelsk.

To participate in the competition, I made a “Time Cube”, each face of which reveals a certain characteristic of time. To create the cube, I needed a diaper box, which I covered on all sides with white self-adhesive paper.

The first facet is the clock

I took the wooden dial that I had. I glued the picture in the middle with white self-adhesive paper to fit the concept of the cube. I glued the dial with double sided tape. On this side you can study time, there is an hour and minute hand.

The second line is the season

I cut out color pictures from the available manual - the crowns of 4 trees and 6 pictures each, characterizing a certain time of the year. I pasted the pictures on cardboard, laminated them with adhesive tape, cut them out and glued Velcro on the back. In the same way, I printed and made 4 inscriptions of the seasons.

On the edge, I glued a tree trunk with brown self-adhesive paper, placed Velcro for the crown of the tree, six pictures and inscriptions of the season. First, we show the child how the crown of trees changes depending on the season, what events occur in nature.

When the child remembers what characterizes this or that season, you can give him the task to design autumn, summer, and so on.

The third line is the days of the week

Vertically I pasted the numbers in the order of the days of the week, horizontally - colored rectangles with rounded corners and the names of the days of the week. The rectangles are pasted on the colors of the rainbow. The main idea of ​​this face is that each rectangle is larger than the next by 1 unit (for me it is 2 cm), i.e. Monday - 2 cm, Sunday - 14 cm. The edge was made by analogy with Kuizener's sticks.

On this face, we study the sequence of days of the week from 1 to 7, we tell that the week consists of 7 days. In this case, you can study the account, the composition of the number.

For example, a week consists of 7 days - you can take a 2 cm rectangle and measure how many times it fits into the purple rectangle (it will turn out 7 times - 7 days). It can be explained that if you add one day to Monday, you get Tuesday, i.e. 1 rectangle + 1 rectangle = two 2 cm rectangles. In addition, you can study the colors of the rainbow.

Next to each side, I glued a piece of Velcro so that my daughter would attach an animal on the desired day of the week. For example, today is Thursday, let's put a squirrel on Thursday, etc.

The fourth facet is the month and day of the month

I took an empty cardboard box from sweets, cut out a rectangle so that the picture was visible, made a hole on top to insert the picture. The box was glued on all sides with white self-adhesive paper, glued to the edge. It turned out to be a solid pocket. I printed out a picture with the name of the month and the event that characterizes it, glued the picture onto cardboard, and made a small handle out of cardboard to make it easy to get the picture.

As a picture, you can use your own drawings, applications, photographs with memorable events so that the child has an association with a particular month. For example, April 14 is a birthday, we insert a photo from a pocket into a pocket, or a photo of a smart Christmas tree in December, etc. I looked at the cube, and it is clear what event today and, accordingly, the month.

For the day of the month, I printed the numbers from 0 to 9, 1 and 2 (11.22) on colored paper, pasted them on cardboard, laminated them with tape, and cut them out. I glued a piece of magnetic tape to the edge, glued a piece of magnetic tape to each number. Thus, every day we attach the number we need to the magnet.

Decorated the fifth face with clocks and butterflies. Time, like butterflies, is fleeting ... flies unnoticed ... you don’t have time to catch ... Let's enjoy the present moment, live in the present ... until the butterfly sits in the palm of your hand and does not fly away ...

Olga Antonenko and daughter Olesya 1 year 6 months. Yaroslavl.

Educational book on the topic "Time"

With the birth of my daughter, I became interested in sewing. Over time, my books have become not only a simulator for the development of fine motor skills, but also manuals on various topics. And one of my friends asked me to sew a book for her son so that he could learn to tell the time. I confess that the task was difficult. Firstly, with my daughter, I have not yet passed the clock, for me it was completely new topic. And on the other hand, it was necessary to collect material for seven pages and a cover.

As a result, it was decided to talk about the seasons, time of day, hours and daily routine.

The first page is a spring morning, then a summer day, an autumn evening and a winter night. There are many small details on each page that indicate to us the time of year or time of day. For example, white snow, smoke from a chimney, snow-covered trees tell us that it is winter. And the stars, the moon, the dark sky and the animal sleeping under the tree indicate that it is night now. There are a lot of secrets and moving elements on these pages, unfortunately, the photo does not convey everything.

The included little finger bunny sleeps in the crib, washes, eats breakfast/lunch/dinner, plays in his room, walks on the playground and bathes in the bathtub. All these actions can be accompanied by moving the arrows to the appropriate values.

Steam locomotive "Seasons"

My second work, already for my daughter, but here we study only the seasons. The idea is not mine, I peeped at the Myakishi company. It turned out, which carries 3 trailers. Each trailer has its own color and all of them are decorated in a special way, because they symbolize the seasons. Winter - blue - Christmas tree, snowflake. Spring - green - tulip, sun. Summer - yellow - strawberry, butterfly. Autumn - red - acorn and yellow leaf.

The trailers are connected to each other with hooks, detached and assembled in any order. They are attached to the book itself with magnets, and the rails are made in the form of lacing, the lace-rail is threaded into sleeper loops.

We really like the steam locomotive, because we like all steam locomotives in general, and, it seems to me, it reinforces the child's idea of ​​the seasons in an absolutely unobtrusive way.

Anna Ivanova and daughter Masha, 2 years 6 months old, Moscow region.

Calendar

To get acquainted with time, we made a calendar and the game “Hourly Lotto” with my daughter. But since the benefits were not made now, there is no photo of the process. The calendar was drawn by Alice, I helped her a little and printed out the names of the months and days of the week.

We have a little book about the months and seasons, there are wonderful poems! And of course, we discuss on walks: what time of the year, what is it especially, what month, what signs each month has, The names are still confused, but who’s daughter knows exactly when! They learned a little rhyme about the days of the week:

Tell us, animals,
How to remember the days of the week?
First Monday -
Bunny needlework!
Tuesday comes after him -
The nightingale is a tease.
After Tuesday - Wednesday,
Fox food.
After Wednesday Thursday -
The wolf's eyes sparkled.
After Thursday to us Friday
The kolobok will roll.
After Friday - Saturday
Bath at the raccoon.
After Saturday - Sunday
We have fun all day long.

On the titles they made small illustrations corresponding to the rhyme. Why small you ask? Because my daughter loves to look for everything small and play miniature heroes! Now every morning we change the name of the day of the week. And once a month - the name of the month.

Tired of the mess in the nursery? Tired of endlessly collecting toys for the child?

Game "Hour loto"

To study the time made with my daughter game "Hour lotto". We turn the arrows in turn and guess what time to find. While looking for a full hour and half an hour. Minutes are still difficult. The manual can be easily disassembled and folded into a bag, and putting on a mini card with a number on a toothpick trains fine motor skills.

Anastasia and daughters Alisa 3 years old 6 months and Vera 6 months. Ukraine, Dnepropetrovsk.

Why hours? As our son Arseniy said: “... it is more important to know the time, because we always look at the clock, but I don’t have my own watch yet. And I will remember the days of the week. And so this developing craft appeared - a do-it-yourself toy.

Arseniy made watches with his dad. He offered materials for manufacturing, helped, if possible, stick the numbers on the dial, fasten parts, followed the production and gave advice.

To make the watch you need:

• for dial: a lid from a box with shoes in the shape of a square;
• for shooters: plastic fork and spoon (there was a variant of carved cardboard arrows, ice cream sticks and medical wooden spatulas);
• for numbers: corrugated cardboard(there was an option to make numbers from sticks, plasticine, matches, sand poured on PVA glue or adhesive tape, draw with a marker, stick the remaining numbers without magnets from a set of letters and numbers);
• for fastening parts: a cap from a bottle of soda water, a bolt and a nut made of a metal constructor.

When they did the craft, Arseny suddenly sang a song from "Fixies": "The clock goes, the clock goes, the clock takes care of minutes." Everything, personal time is running!

Arseniy Zinoviev, 5 years old, Shushenskoye settlement, Krasnoyarsk Territory, father Andrey Alexandrovich Zinoviev and mother Zhanna Vladimirovna Zinoviev.

Wall panel, clock and posters

We have wall panel and small posters that help to generalize and master temporary concepts for the child.

The allowance was made five years ago for the eldest daughter. Over time, it was replenished with new posters and now we use it in games with our youngest daughter.

At first, the main goal was to teach my daughter to navigate the days of the week, so that she would know when the weekend or other days of the week come with events planned for them. Next, it was necessary to study all the concepts of time, which is not so simple.

The panel is divided into four parts horizontally and two vertically:

• celestial part(upper) shows the change of time of day (morning - afternoon - evening - night);
• earth part(lower) shows the change of seasons (spring - summer - autumn - winter).

Through all the panel rides steam locomotive "Nedelka". Each trailer is a pocket of a certain color. Numbers and names according to the days of the week and the colors of the rainbow.

Later, small posters appeared:

• rotation of the earth around the sun to study time concepts: year, month, season;
• watch with rotating hands, helping to navigate the time of day (outer circle - minute, inner - two hour scales);
• plate with roman numerals for the eldest daughter.

How to play with panels and posters?

• We examine the panels, discuss the signs of the seasons and days, tell counting rhymes or rhymes about the colors of the rainbow and the days of the week.
• We are preparing a cardboard toy (draw it ourselves or cut it out of a magazine), which will travel on the “Nedelka” train and tell us in the morning what day of the week it is. We have a koala cub - Kolya.
  Every morning we transfer Kolya to the next car, which corresponds to today's day of the week, discuss what kind of day it is (what is the name, what is the number, what is interesting for us on this day, what was yesterday and what will be tomorrow, etc.) .
• You can put little notes in the trailers, where it will be drawn or written that the miraculous will happen on this day, thus. On Sunday evening, you can schedule upcoming events for the whole week (weekly).

It is very funny! With such a panel, you can quickly and unobtrusively remember the days of the week, and the child.

Thinking with the clock different games with tasks (we study the structure of the clock face, the concepts of noon, midnight, a quarter of an hour, etc.).

A panel with posters is made quickly and easily. Suitable for any parent.

Necessary materials: colored and white cardboard, colored paper, paints, glue, scissors, different clippings from magazines, a little ability to draw and your imagination. The clock hands need a small screw with a nut so that they can rotate.

That's all! You can play fun and useful!

Irina Brusyantseva and daughters Lera (9 years old) and Rita (3.5 years old), Orenburg.

Sensory box "Seasons"

Our work is "Seasons", which was made to introduce the child to the seasons. It consists of four separate boxes - quarters of a circle. Each part represents a specific season and has the corresponding content:

• At winter- filler artificial snow made of polyethylene, confetti in the form of snowflakes and foam balls (snowballs). In addition - toy skis, skates, a snowman and a piece of plastic ice;
• spring- light green dyed rice. Glass balls resemble water, and pebbles resemble earth, not yet covered with grass. Addition - snowdrop flowers and birds returning from warm lands;
• Summer– dark vermicelli Green colour is grass, butterflies and ladybugs different sizes, dragonfly, bee, caterpillar, strawberry, flowers;
• autumn- peas, dried rose hips, acorns, hazelnuts and walnuts, cedar and pine cones, seeds from plums and apricots, toys from wooden lacing - apples, pears and mushrooms.

Seasonal animals are attached to the edges inside the boxes, and the names and symbols of the months are attached to the outside. With a small clothespin on the edge of the box, we mark the current month.

We put a tree in the center between the boxes. It is glued from four cardboard blanks, and each part is decorated with appliqué:

• Winter- from cotton pads and snowflakes, complemented by a matchbox feeder;
• For spring, we used the quilling technique and a set of rhinestones, a thread nest is glued below;
• Summer, decorated with leaves from pumpkin seeds and apples from foam balls, painted acrylic paints.
• autumn decorated with crumpled colored paper balls.

My daughter made the applications herself with a little help from me. Unfortunately, there are no photos of the manufacturing process, since the work was done a little earlier than the competition.

For a month, from the moment of manufacture, this is our most popular toy. We play themed games. My daughter digs through the boxes several times a day. He plays with birds, sits in the feeder and nest, feeds with grass. Gathers apples and mushrooms for the hedgehog and nuts for the squirrels. Puts dolls on skates and skis. Looking for insects and flowers different color. He especially likes to choose glass balls from boxes, counts how many he found, then looks for more and adds - we develop mathematical skills.

We develop thinking - I ask my daughter to tell about the signs of each season, using the example of boxes. She already knows the names of the months and their sequence very well. I also put the tree with the summer side to the winter box and we argued when and where this happens (greenhouses, winter gardens, southern and northern hemispheres).

Irina Patrusheva and daughter Lera, Belogorsk, Amur Region.

I made a felt calendar half a year ago for my youngest daughter, who is now 4.5 years old. We live in France, here in the stores there are a lot of various manuals and calendars made of fabric, cardboard and other materials. I bought some of them, but they turned out to be completely unusable for some reason, my daughter didn’t understand at all, the goal was not achieved.

Then I came up with my own. I simply displayed on the fabric the abstract vision of time that I have. I put most of the concepts on the calendar:

• year, seasons, months;
• the weather;
• days of the week (as in an old Soviet diary), Saturday and Sunday - in a separate color;
• the concept of day and night is cyclical,
• 4 main parts of the day.

The child had difficulty understanding one day. For her, the morning before the afternoon nap was one day, and after the afternoon nap and before the night it was another. I approximately visually displayed for the child the duration of the day, night and part of the day. On the calendar it is clear that from the beginning of the morning to the end of the evening there is as much time as the night lasts. We know that in fact everything is not quite so, but for this age, such an explanation will be the most optimal.

And most importantly, I posted all the main 30/31 days of the month at once. Separately - each ten in rows (visual display of the first three dozen, mathematics in action), and the 31st day - in a separate color.

Unlike finished materials, I sewed all these days, and did not do it with Velcro (Velcro falls off all the time, and for me it was the main thing that the child saw the whole month at once). 28 days of February are discussed separately.

The result of my work was achieved: my daughter immediately understood everything, the first time. We periodically approach the calendar and show with a finger what day it is, what weather, what month of the year, what date.

All drawings, numbers and words are embroidered by me. The calendar can be washed. And he can still serve for more than one year, and not only to us. If any of the moms help the idea, I will only be glad.

Elena, Toulouse, France.

What aids do you use? Tell in the comments!

My three-year-old son went to the garden and constantly asked me when I would come, so many children, if not all, probably do. And I was worried about how to explain to the child when I will come if he does not understand the clock. And so I had a simply amazing idea, in my opinion, to make a clock with a daily routine for the smallest children. By this clock, your child will know when to eat in the garden, when to sleep, when to play, and when mom will finally come...

So, let's begin.

For this watch we need:

Cardboard, or whatman paper.

There are a lot of magazines with images of children, I used to buy a lot of such magazines for moms, so this is not a problem for me.

Clockwork. I pulled it out of an old cheap alarm clock. But you can also buy the cheapest alarm clock and disassemble it later.

Compasses (or a lid from a large pot), felt-tip pens, adhesive tape, scissors.

Do not forget to also find out the daily routine in your kindergarten.

1. Cut out a circle of the diameter you need from cardboard (I have 30 cm)

2. We cut out pictures suitable for us from the magazine, on which, for example, mom dad and baby are drawn, for me this means coming home or leaving home. We arrive at seven and leave somewhere at seven, the picture is the same. Or where the kids eat, it's breakfast, lunch and dinner. A picture where the kids are walking and so on. Carved with the child.

3. We draw a dial on the clock and draw numbers.

4. We mark the sectors for pictures, paste the pictures.

We disassemble the watch, if they are purchased.

5. Then cut out the arrow. I also cut out a circle in the arrow so that the child could see the numbers. I have one arrow, since the idea is not to teach the child to understand the clock, but to give him at least some idea of ​​the time and somehow orient him in the daily routine and in the time of day in general. I covered the arrow with adhesive tape, and on the inside of my cardboard arrow I glued the arrow from the clockwork (to better hold on to the clock).

6. We glue our dial to the clockwork, you can glue it with double-sided tape, you can simply put it on glue or PVA or a moment. We wrap the clockwork with tape and make a loop so that we can hang it on the wall.

7. We put on our arrow, turn the special lever on the back with which we set the time on the clock.

Here is the clock and ready, I have to manufacture homemade watches gone for about 1 hour. My child does not leave this watch, he really liked it.

Kindergarten teachers can also take note of this article, it seems to me that it is much easier to agree with children if the children know for sure that the mother will come when the arrow shows that mother with the child or that you need to go to bed because the clock shows on picture where the baby is sleeping.

By this principle, you can make any clock, for example, with a regimen or daily routine at your place, if the child does not go to the garden.

This watch is suitable for children 2 years old, 3 years old and older.

Your ideas for watches for the little ones with your own hands or some wishes in the comments.

We will make our own clock and learn to tell the time! We will learn interesting games over time, and we will also be able to download useful materials!

The ability to freely navigate in time makes the child more independent and responsible, so it’s better to preschool age teach him to tell the time on the clock face. Although the digital clock greatly simplifies this task, it is the dial that makes time space more visual.

At the same time, it is very important to constantly remember that when we teach time by the clock, for children, the concepts of "minute", "second" and "hour" are very abstract, since they cannot compare them with real time intervals. This point will need to be given special attention.

• How to make a clock with a child with your own hands?

Simple enough. For this you will need:

• compass (or finished circle);
• thick cardboard;
• marker;
• simple pencil;
• ruler;
• scissors;
• pushpin with a head.

We draw a circle on the cardboard, place the numbers along its edge, indicating the hours. With a ruler we measure the distance from the center of the circle to the numbers, we make a minute, narrower hand of this length. And we make the hour wider and shorter. We fix the arrows in the center with a pushpin. Ready!

You can use a more complex ready-made template for making - for example, print a clock with moving hands on thick paper for the printer and stick them on the cardboard base.

• How to learn to tell time?

Using a simple homemade dummy, we study the clock with a child according to a simple scheme:

1. We explain that the small hand shows the hour, and the long and narrow hand shows the minute. This explanation seems more logical if you pay attention to the fact that we have very few hours (hence the small hand), but they last a long time (hence the hand is so wide). And there are a lot of minutes (that's why the hand is longer), but they pass quickly (that's why it's so narrow). We mix the hands and ask the baby to show: which hand shows the hours, and which minutes? We practice until the baby learns to distinguish the arrows accurately.
2. Learning to watch how many hours the hour hand showed. Usually, children get confused when it is placed in an intermediate position between two numbers, so you need to work out this moment.
3. We explain that five minutes fit in the interval between two hours. For clarity, it is better to use the dial, where the minutes are written separately. (This will be discussed in the hotel paragraph of our article). We train: we call the number and ask the child to say how many minutes it is. After such training, it will not be difficult to master the minute hand.
4. We proceed to the final stage: we put the arrows in a certain position and invite the child to determine how much time is shown in this moment watch. We move the arrows, determine the time again, etc.

Then we ask the baby to put the hands themselves in the desired position (for example, at 5:30, 6:40, etc.).

Be sure to practice our skills on a real watch. At every opportunity, before the child's interest has died down, ask him what time it is.

• Why do you need to know what time it is? Time and schedule.

Often a child who has learned to tell time well does not understand why he needs it. Therefore, when we study time with a child, be sure to make the classes applied.

So, using special cards, it is easy to connect time with the baby’s real daily routine - he will be interested to know when he wakes up, plays, puts away toys, goes to Kindergarten, watches cartoons, starts classes in the sports section. At this stage, we smoothly move on to understanding the duration of the time period, learning to compare our actions with the clock face.

Sample cards "the daily routine of a 1st grade student in pictures"

• How to visually show the child 5 minutes? How to visually show the child 60 minutes?

As already mentioned, children very often find it difficult to determine the minutes. In order for this skill to be perfected, special dials can be used - for example, a dial with a folding edge. Hours are written on its upper part, each interval between adjacent hours is divided into 5 parts, which are drawn with a bright marker.

This helps to remember that in one step of the arrow from number to number, 5 minutes will pass, and not one. We attach an additional one under the main dial, on which all the minutes are written (5, 10, 15, etc.). During the lesson, we are trying to determine the time and compare how many minutes the child has piled up with the designation on the lower dial.

You can make an additional dial with the designation of minutes along the outer edge from the main one - visual memory help the child learn this information.

• Visual study of time with the constructor

For clarity, you can use the usual Lego constructor, as we used it to teach visual mathematics. The dial is drawn on a large sheet of paper, on the inner edge - hours, on the outer - minutes. We lay out its contours with constructor blocks, we use the same blocks as an arrow. We move the arrow and determine how much time it showed.

• What can be done in 1 second? What can be done in 1 minute?

In order for the child to better feel the duration of each time period, after he learns to work with a real clock, we conduct small experiments - we find out how much time it takes for a particular action, what can be done in a designated period of time. This can be done as a separate game, or it can be combined with ordinary everyday activities - for example, try to determine how much time a child takes for breakfast, for washing, for dressing. So he will gradually learn to calculate his time.

• Learning time for preschoolers can be completed simple exercise, which is often used at school: a certain position of the hands is drawn on the dial, and in the windows below it you need to write how much time the dial shows. This task is used in many tests for admission to high-status schools.

• And of course, any child will be happy to guess a couple of riddles or learn a simple rhyme about a clock. For example, these:

Day and night they go

And they won't leave the place. (watch)

Runs like a squirrel

In the dial ... (arrow)

He takes his last step - and another hour has passed. (minute hand)

I walk without legs

I speak without a mouth.

I point out to everyone

I advise everyone. (watch)

No extra phrases

Without many words,

Tells the ticking of the clock

When to sleep

When to play

When to run outside.

Do-it-yourself clock made of cardboard

An activity for children who already know numbers and count with confidence. Now we are learning to determine the time and even lay it out from the numbers on a special scoreboard.

You can teach a child to tell time already at preschool age; the sooner he learns to do this, the easier it will be for parents. In addition, test tasks on the ability to work with the clock are used as entrance tests in many high-profile educational institutions.

Cardboard watches are simply indispensable - for children, classes with them become much more understandable and visual. At the same time, it is absolutely not necessary to buy factory teaching aids and dummies of watches, since every parent can make a watch with his own hands for a child.

What is needed for this:

1. Thick cardboard.
2. Compass.
3. Markers.
4. Scissors.
5. Empty refill from a ballpoint pen.
6. Matches.

With a compass we draw two circles with one center - one larger, the other somewhat smaller. On the inner circle, we set aside sixty divisions at regular intervals and arrange the numbers according to the dial of a real watch. We write numbers in Arabic, with Roman children learn to work around the second grade of elementary school.

Cut out our watch. We make hands for them - as usual, wide and short hourly and narrower and longer - minute. We fasten them to the dial with a piece of an empty rod, the edges of which are then melted in the fire of a burning match and flattened with a matchbox.

Ready! You can safely take such hand-made watches from cardboard to school when it's time to polish the ability to tell the time.

Well, if we want to teach a child before school, then for classes we will prepare an empty dial of an electronic watch (four empty square windows) and numbers for it. Images of clocks, the hands of which show a certain time, will also come in handy.

We explain the basics to the baby: which hand shows the hours, which one shows the minutes, how many divisions there are. And then we learn to determine by the location of the hands how many hours and how many minutes it is. If everything usually goes very easily with hours, then many children get confused with minutes. Therefore, you can draw on the dial next to the designation of each hour the designation of the number of minutes (10, 15, 20, etc.).

We try to show the same time on our clock as in the pictures - we put the arrows in the right position, we determine how many hours and minutes we got.

When the basics are mastered, we proceed to the next stage: on the electronic dial we lay out the number of hours and minutes, and the child shows them on his watch. Such an exercise is often used when entering status schools.

And, of course, final stage will be the development of the acquired knowledge on real hours. Be interested as often as possible, what time it is, pay the child's attention to the clock when you are going somewhere or planning to go somewhere after some time. So the baby will learn early not only to determine the time, but also to feel and plan.

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