To ring in the New Year, I hung out with some delightful friends and their kiddos! The grown ups ate a variety of tasty homemade soups and snacks, played games and managed to stay awake until 2013 (just barely)!
The kids kept busy with their own games and snacks too. But we wanted to have a little organized 'craft time' in the midst of all the madness....because crafts are fun!
I put together some materials to make musical shakers (see earlier post from October 16th on how to make some of your own) and also threw together some paper clocks for the kids to count down to 2013...and to practice their time telling skillz!!
To make your own, you will need:
Cut some strips of paper (you decide the size based on the paper plate you are using). Make them the appropriate length for a big and little hand of the clock. I also made the tips pointed...but do what you'd like (oh, and I made a bunch of them for a crew of kids...so the pics reflect my assembly line of clock parts...):
Write your numbers around the paper plate with a sharpie (or you could use cute stickers from the scrapbook store if you want to get fancy):
Take a thick needle to punch a little hole through each hand of the clock....it helps to do that first to get the metal brad through all three pieces during the assembly (You can try to just push the brad through without the 'predrilled hole' if you dare. I tried, hurt my little fingers, and bent the brad, boo! You've been warned):
Add whatever embellishments you would like to make it lovely. I went with yarn and a hole puncher. But you could use stickers, glitter, pipe cleaners....anything you can find at the craft store is fair game!
Use the clock as a teaching tool for older kids at the beginning of their clock reading careers (Hey, can you show me what 3:30 looks like?)....or just let your older toddlers turn the hands and chat with them about basic concepts of time (Right now it is 12:00, it looks like this...at 12:00 we eat lunch!).
Happy time telling!
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