Make Daniel Tiger’s Watch
Daniel Tiger’s dad works at the clock factory. While some people make clocks or watches, other people use them to help with their jobs. How might a bus driver use a clock? How might a teacher use a clock? Can you think of other jobs where people need to keep track of time or use a clock as a regular part of their job?
Tick, tock, let’s make a watch! Watches are a kind of clock that we can wear on our wrist. Talk about ways people use watches and clocks while you make your own Daniel Tiger pretend play watch. Your child can wear the watch by itself or with the Daniel Tiger no-sew costume.
Materials
Directions
Trace two circles onto thin cardboard with a pencil. Make one circle slightly larger than the other. Cut out the two cardboard circles. Tip: For our watch, we traced the end of a toilet paper roll for the smaller circle. Then after we cut it out, we used the smaller circle as a template to make a slightly larger circle.
Cut a toilet paper roll open by cutting all the way (lengthwise) down the center. Then cut off a thin strip from the short side of the roll. This strip holds its curled shape and will be the band of the watch.
Now that you have all of the parts of the watch, you are ready to paint. Paint the smaller circle white and the larger circle yellow.
Paint the wristband brown, then set all parts aside to dry.
Once all the parts of the watch are dry, you are ready to draw the watch face. Tip: A permanent marker works best for this. Draw a circle in the center and four lines around the circle on the top, bottom and both sides.
After drawing the face of the watch, an adult can use the hot glue gun to glue all parts together. Glue the watch face on top of the yellow circle and then glue those two pieces onto the center of the watch band.
Grr-ific! You are now ready to wear your watch.
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