DLTK's Nursery Rhymes
Hickory Dickory 'Round the Clock Paper Plate Craft

Bring the classic nursery rhyme "Hickory Dickory Dock" to life with this engaging and educational craft. Using simple materials like a paper plate, brass brad, and our printable templates, young learners can create their own working clock featuring a moving mouse. Follow our step-by-step instructions to decorate your clock with paint, markers, and the provided templates. This fun craft is perfect for fostering creativity and fine motor skills, making it an ideal activity for home or classroom use.

Use the templates provided or use paint and markers to create your own.

Materials:

• paper plate
• brass tab ("brass brad")
• sharp pencil or nail
• optional:  paint, paintbrush and markers
• scissors
• hole punch
• printer and paper
• something to color with (if using the B&W Templates)
• optional:  glue and thin cardboard (old cereal boxes work well) or poster board -- makes the templates that go around the paper plate a bit sturdier

Viewer Suggestion:  instead of a paper plate, trace a plate onto a piece of cardboard or poster board and use that as the center of the project.

Instructions:

• Optional:  Paint the "bottom" of your paper plate:  your paper plate has the side you'd eat from and the side you'd place on the table -- the bottom is the side you'd place on the table -- use whatever color or technique you like (we like sponge painting).  This is going to be the face of your clock.
• let dry
• poke a hole in the center of the plate with a nail or sharp pencil (adult assistance)
• print out the template(s) of choice. 
• Optional:  glue the mouse template page and the arrows for the clock onto thin cardboard (old cereal boxes or poster board, for example) to make your creation sturdier
• use the hole punch to punch a hole in the bottom of the template rectangle
• Color B&W version) and cut out the templates
• use the hole punch to punch a hole in the bottom of the arrows from the clock template
• push the brass brad through the paper plate the arrows and the mouse -- the mouse should be behind the clock, the arrows should be on the front.
• glue (or print with a marker) the numbers onto the clock
• orbit your mouse around your clock!

Printing the Template:

• Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.

• Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).

Clock template              color    or    B&W

Mouse template            color    or    B&W

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