How to teach a kid to understand TIME?
Of course, we need a clock for it. A very nice clock! Rather big and with all necessary numbers - not only for hours but for minutes as well + all points for every minute.
Like here
It's strange but when I started to look for such a kids clock, I found nothing!
Of course, there were many of them, but no clock had ALL I mentioned above. How to teach time if some important moments are missed?? Moreover, if I wrote "wall clock", I found many of them with price from 3$.
But if I wrote a KIDS wall clock - the price was 5-10 times higher! And do you know for what? They had cartoon design, that's it;) The fact that they are useless, was out of producers' attention, I think😒
We had clock-trainer for teaching time, but they were not real, so they didn't work and didn't show real time. A kid can move clock hands by himself.
So I decided to make it alive and make it work as a real clock😊
I needed only one thing - a clock mechanism that cost about 2-3$ + 15 min of time.
I proposed my boy to make a clock for his room, and he was happy to be a master:)
So we set a clock mechanism to our toy clock
put a battery there
and change clock hands,
and the clock was alive and real!
Now my boy can see real time and train his time skills with his handmade clock;)
If we can't find anything, we can do it by ourselves😉