Teaching kids how to tell time can be surprisingly tricky when you first try it. Here?s how to make it doable and fun.
1. Match up Easter eggs

For this game, you’ll need a permanent marker and plastic dollar-store Easter eggs. Write matching times on the bottom half and the top half of each Easter egg, using different formats: digital (e.g., 4:30), analog (clock face) and text (e.g., ?four thirty?). ?The big strength of this game is that it helps kids understand there are different ways to talk about time,? says Vanessa Vakharia, founder of The Math Guru in Toronto.
For more details and pictures on exactly how this game works, click here.
2. Move those hands

Draw a simple clock face, then get your kid to use two colours of playdough to make a shorter hour hand and a longer minute hand. Talk about the events of the day?for example, “At 7 o?clock in the morning we get up, at 8:30 you get to school”?while she moves the hands to the right spot. ?This helps kids start associating activities with the actual passage of time,? says Vakharia. Change the game up by rolling dice and moving the hands forward or back the corresponding number of hours, maybe adding in a different activity to go with each time (?5 o?clock?time to dance!?). To take the game outside in nice weather, make a clock with a hula hoop and sidewalk chalk, and use sticks for hands. For more details and pictures on exactly how the playdough clock game works, click here.

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