Shape Sorting Clock

Description

The Shape Sorting Clock features brightly-colored numbers and shapes that fit in their proper place on the face of the clock. The hour and minute hand help your child learn to tell time the old fashioned way. No digital clock here.

Why we love it

The Shape Sorting Clock receives our seal of approval because it is a high-quality, wooden toy that will grow with your child because it teaches colors, shapes, numbers, and time.

Product Features

• This is a colorful puzzle with blocks of various shapes that your child will try to match with the openings on the shape sorting clock. The shapes are more challenging than some other shape puzzles. You can name these shapes for your little one and count the number of sides they have-- pentagon has five sides, hexagon has six sides, octagon has eight sides.
• Your child will also notice the numbers on the blocks. You can review these numbers with them and their position on the clock. Your child will begin to learn number recognition and be able  to match the numbers back in the puzzle by number.
• Start to teach your toddler about time by drawing a picture that looks the same as the child’s clock. Have him/her move the hands on the clock puzzle to copy the time you draw. Your fist example should be on the hour (1 o’clock).
• Take digital pictures of the clock puzzle set to different times and make a ‘Time Book’ by writing the times under pictures. It will help your child recognize the passage of time throughout the day if your connect what he/she is learning with the activities that go on in his/her day. Add pictures or words of these activities to the “Time Book,” such as “6:00pm dinner, bath.”)

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