Draw the Hands
Grade 2 · medium
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Draw the hour and minute hands to show the time written below each clock.
1.2:15
2.5:45
3.7:45
4.4:30
5.1:00
6.3:15
7.9:15
8.8:00
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Draw the hands to show the time
The other half of telling time: the time is written, the clock is empty, and the child draws the hands. Harder than reading a clock, and the step that shows whether the skill has really landed.
- Empty dials with the target time printed underneath
- The answer key draws the hands correctly, including hour-hand drift
- Four clocks across a page
- Pairs naturally with the reading worksheets
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What’s on the sheet
- Blank clock faces with a time written underneath to draw
- Correct tick marks and a centre point to draw from
- 4 to 12 clocks per page
- An answer key showing each clock drawn correctly
What each difficulty means
Difficulty is a real change to the numbers or the layout, not a label.
Gentle start
O'clock and half past, on a clock showing only 12, 3, 6 and 9.
Just right
Adds quarter past and quarter to, with all twelve numerals and minute ticks.
Extra challenge
Any five-minute interval.
Grades this covers
Tap a grade you can use for a page of everything a child that age can practise here.
Drawing a clock is the better test
A child can read 3:45 correctly and still, when asked to draw it, put the hour hand exactly on the 3. Reading is recognition. Drawing requires actually knowing that the hour hand has moved three-quarters of the way towards the 4, and it exposes the gap in about ten seconds.
If you only have time for one time-telling sheet this week, make it this one. It tells you more.
Hand length is worth insisting on
Children routinely draw both hands the same length, which makes their own work unreadable and hides whether they understood. It is worth one explicit instruction — short and fat for hours, long and thin for minutes — before the first sheet.
The answer key draws them properly proportioned, so there is something to compare against.
Questions
How is this different from telling time?
Telling time gives the hands and asks for the time. This gives the time and asks for the hands, which is the harder direction.
Does the answer key show the hands?
Yes — the key draws each clock correctly so it can be checked at a glance.
More practice to try
How long has it been?Days, months and datesMatch the activity to its timeRead the clock and write the timeAddition worksheets you can fill to the lineSubtraction worksheets, with or without borrowing
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