Help the child cut a circle and two arrows, one short and one long, out of construction paper. Another clock can serve as an example to help the child write the numbers in the correct places. Encourage the child to decorate the clock.
Fasten the short arm to the middle of the clock with the metal fastener. Explain that the day is broken up into hours: 12 hours in the morning and 12 hours in the afternoon and evening. List different times (for example, 5:00), and ask the child to move the hour hand to the right time.
Help the child associate his routine with different times. For example, "You wake up at 7:00. At 8:00, we eat breakfast. At 9:00, you go to school. At 12:00, you eat lunch." Have him show you these times on the clock.
Help her unfasten the hour hand and instead attach the longer arrow. Explain that this is the minute hand. Help her write minute increments underneath the numbers denoting the hours. For example, when the minute hand points at 1:00, it means five minutes into the hour. Count by fives up to 60 with her.
Explain that each hour includes 60 minutes, and each minute is made up of 60 seconds. A second is how long it takes you to say "one-one-thousand." Count with the child--one-one-thousand, two-one-thousand, three-one-thousand--all the way to sixty-one-thousand. Tell him that's how long a minute lasts.
Play the same game with minutes that you did with hours. Tell the child different times, and help her find them on the clock. Start with half-hour increments (such as 6:00, 4:30, 2:30). Move to quarter hours and then to multiples of five. Once the child understands, explain that between each number he's written is another five minutes. Help him draw four lines to denote these minutes.
Show the child the way numbers on a digital clock look by tracing over lines on graph paper. Follow the lines of the graph to draw the numbers one through nine and zero. Have her copy down the numbers.
Show the child a digital clock. Explain that a computer runs it. Ask him to point out the hour and then the minute.
Ask her to read you the time. Write down different times on the graph paper, and have her identify them. Alternatively, tell her a time, and have her write it down.