T is for Time

I'm back again with another update for my activity book. For this next page I decided I wanted to work backwards. I knew somewhere in my book I wanted to put in a clock. I realize that by the time either one of my boys learn to read a clock they'll know longer be playing with the activity book, but I just wanted to get them used to what a clock looks like and a little bit on how it works. Plus Blue so far is happy to point out all the numbers around the face to me.

So once I had the idea for the page, I knew there was no better letter for this than T. So without further ado here is my page for

T is for Time

Here's What You Need:

Here's How You Do It:

Step 1: Create the Clock Face

Cut a large circle out for your white felt (approximately with 6 inch diameter). I traced a large coffee container to create my circle, but you could also use a drawing compass if you have one handy.

Create numbers for your clock face out of your black felt and stitch them around your clock face. I sewed down first the 12 and 6, then the 9 and 3 and then filled in the clock face with the remaining numbers. When you're finished it'll look something like this:

Next create your clock hands by cutting two rectangles out of your black felt, one 1 x 3 inch and 1 x 2 inch. Trim down one end of each rectangle to create a point and then round out the other side on each. Then trim out a small circle in the center of each rounded side.

Here's what your hands should look like:

Step 2. Putting the Clock Together

The first step in putting the clock all together is to sew a two (or four) holed button onto the center back of your clock face. (It may not seem important now back this gives your yarn something to get tied too later.)

Here's how it looks from the front:

(There's a hole in it because I tried using the eyelet pliers and well.. there's a little too much fabric to get the eyelet in the proper spot.)

The next step is to use your eyelet pliers and put in eyelets on both your minute and hour hands like so.

Finally it's time to put it all together. To do this I threaded a doll needle with dark yarn and carefully sew it through one of the holes in my back button, through the minute hand and the hour hand and finally through a bottom looped button, I repeated this a couple more times to make sure it was properly secured together. (And gave the hands a couple of spines to make sure they worked too!)

That process will look a little something like this: