How to make a clock from cardboard?

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If your child has started to be interested inconcept as time or you want to teach him to understand what the clock shows, then you can make your own hands a watch from cardboard. Such a toy will allow the child to independently set the arrows, to study the numbers and help to understand the structure of the dial.

Perform this simple work besttogether with your child, to lure him as much as possible. In addition, for older children, it is possible to assemble a functional model with a clockwork from improvised materials.

How to make a cardboard clock for a preschool child?

To make this craft, you will need scissors, colored paper, a marker or a marker, a compass or cover from a small pot, a thin bolt with a nut, as well as PVA glue.

The process of making watches from cardboard:

Take the Square or rectangle of cardboard, which will be enough to create a dial;
Attach a cover to it and circle the contour of the future dial (or do it with a caliper);
Cut out the dial from the cardboard;
Do the same operations with a rectangle of colored paper;
Glue with PVA a dial from color paper on a cardboard basis;
Now cut out a smaller circle from a paper of a different color and paste it inside the future dial;
Next, you need to cut out of the cardboard two arrows: one shorter, and the other longer;
On the arrows, glue strips of colored paper;
Now, legibly write on the dial the digits that signify the clock, and also use the marker to indicate smaller minutes.
In the center of the dial, make a hole;
Make small holes at the end of both hands;
Attach the bolt arrows and thread it into the hole on the dial;
Tighten the nut on the bolt from the back of the dial.

If you want, you can decorate the clock oradd on them applications. You can make geometric shapes and place them all over the dial. This will turn your watch into a universal educational tool.

Working hours of cardboard with their own hands

In order to make the current model, youa sheet of heavy cardboard, 12 colored caps or buttons of the same size, clockwork with arrows from any cheap quartz watch, PVA glue and compass (or a dial to trace the contour of the dial).

The manufacturing process of the watch:

For begin to cut a round dial from the cardboard along the contour, drawn with the help of a caliper;
Now it is necessary to glue the lid or buttons to the dial with the help of PVA glue, so that they are placed in a circle at an equal distance from each other;
Using a marker, write numbers on the tops to indicate the hours;
In the center of the dial, make a hole;
Now install the clockwork on the back of the clock and glue it with glue;
Set the hour and minute hands to the place;
Put the battery in the mechanism.