(Optional) To help Theo understand when the new year would arrive, I attached a glittery ‘2015’ to the top of the clock with a popsicle stick and some glue. Use crayons or markers to decorate the edges.ĥ.Add stickers and/or foam stickers around the edge.(You can make them spiral by wrapping them around a pencil.) Twist some pipe cleaners through the holes.

Punch holes around the edge of your plate. Glue some large sequins around the edge of your plate. Shake off the excess glitter to make a glittery clock. Spread glue around the edge of your plate, and cover it with glitter. As the days before May 12 dwindle to a matter of hours, you can celebrate the countdown New Years-style with a neat timer lens Nintendo has created with the help of Snapchat. Decorate your clock! Here’s a few options: Who enters the New Year first and last It takes 26 hours for New Years Day to arrive in every time zone, from Millenium Island in the east to Baker Island in the west. Attach the clock hands to your clock with a brad.Ĥ. Count down to the New Year, birthdays, weddings, birthdays, retirement & more. (We used glittery foam sheets for ours.)ģ. You can use number stickers or write them with a Sharpie.Ģ. Cut out two clock hands for your clock using cardstock or foam sheets. Start by making the numbers on your paper plate clock face. Optional supplies to decorate your clock: glitter, pipe cleaners, star sequins, foam stickersĭirections for Making Countdown Clock Craftġ.She says working with dried flowers helped her heal after she lost her newborn daughter. Cardstock or foam sheets to make the clock hands 15 hours ago &0183 &32 Cynthia Tran is the owner of Hadley & Ren Floral Co.Paper plates (We used black, 9-inch plates.).New Year’s Eve Countdown Clock Craft for Kids I’ll show you a few examples below, but there’s pretty much endless possibilities as far as decorating them. (And they can even be used later on for practice telling time.) They can be decorated as simply or as elaborately as you want.

These countdown clocks are made from paper plates and have movable hands so kids can move them at each hour.

This year I thought it’d be fun to make something the kids could use to countdown each hour until midnight (if they manage to stay up that long!). We love celebrating the arrival of a new year together as a family. Help kids countdown to the new year with these paper plate countdown clocks. Children will love using the movable clock hands to count down each hour until the start of the new year! Follow our New Year’s Activities and Crafts for Kids Pinterest board!

New years countdown timers