Children soon learn to associate time with their daily routine. From an early age, phrases such as 'it's 6 o'clock, bath time', are widely used.
Children are also presented with visual images in the form of wrist watches, alarm clocks and microwave timers.
One way to help children understand the importance of time is to engage them in an art activity where they can make a clock out of a paper plate.
The paper plate represents a clock face with numbers written around the edge. Cardboard fingers or thin plastic, such as the sides of a washed margarine tub, are used for the hands, positioned with a blunt, taped paper fastener.
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