![]() Trust me when I tell you that I'm not very crafty. Hang it in your home or outdoor sitting area for decoration. It's super easy to make once you have all of the materials. This way you can change what time you perform each part of your routine to ensure that your toddler is in bed at the desired time for that particular night. Of course, I had to design my own DIY Bedtime Routine Clock! The principle is the same, but instead of coloring in you fasten clear colored opaque plastic with Velcro to the inside of the clock. Or you could be transitioning from 1 nap to no naps, so on the days that no nap occurs you want a much earlier bedtime. If you have an older toddler you may not have any nap and so bedtime might be a little earlier. I recommend keeping naps at consistent times each day and then adjusting bedtime based on how naps went that day. Actually, a recommendation I make to each of my clients is to keep bedtime flexible. I have one issue with the designs of these DIY clocks and that is that sometimes your bedtime isn’t the same every night. I just love this concept because not only can you “blame the clock” but you can point to an actual clock that your toddler can help keep track of as well. If that hour hand inches out of the yellow section we won’t have time to read a story before bed!” Or you can switch this up to whatever your parenting style is comfortable with, something like “If we get all of our bedtime routine completed before the hour hand inches out of the yellow section we’ll have time for an extra story tonight!” It’s a great tool to point to when your toddler isn’t cooperating with using the bathroom because you can point to the clock and say “I understand you’re having a difficult time staying on track with your bedtime routine tonight. ![]() You show your toddler the hour hand of the clock and let them know that once that hour hand inches out of the yellow section it’s bedtime, no questions asked. And finally you’re getting ready for bed and tuck in by 7:30pm then you’d color that section yellow. If you do clean-up time/wind down time around 6:30pm for 30 minutes you’d color that section another color such as blue. So, if your family normally has dinner at 5:30pm for 45 minutes then you’d color that section of the clock green. Set the minute and hour hand and have them read the time, then they can check the minutes to see if they were right.Ī fun and easy way to have children learn to tell time.To make one of these bedtime routine clocks you buy a wall clock, remove the plastic cover, and color in the times for each step of your routine. By having the minutes underneath the hour hand, it’ll make it easier for the child to learn the minutes that represent each hour number. At this point, you can either write the minutes going around the green clock and then fasten with the white clock, or you can fasten the green clock with the white, then fold each hour hand back and write the minutes underneath.Ħ. Place a paper fastener at the end of the hands and through the middle of the white clock.ĥ. This will make it easier for kids to identify the hour and minute hand. Make sure the hour hand is black which matches the black marker and the minute hand is green which will match the green minutes. Cut on each line and erase the circle once you’ve finished.Ĥ. Very lightly, draw a smaller circle on the inside of the clock and draw lines in between each number. On the white part of the clock, write the hour hands going around with black marker. ![]() With the black paper, cut about a 3-inch arrow that will represent the hour hand.ģ. With the leftover green paper, cut about a 4-inch arrow that will represent the minute hand. You can also substitute by using 2 large white paper plates.Ģ. Cut 1 8-inch circle out of the white paper and another 8-inch circle out of the green paper. ![]() This simple clock has been a huge help in teaching children how to tell time.ġ2×12 White & Green paper and a small piece of Black paperġ.
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