Telling Time Worksheets
Analog clocks with boxes to write the digital time. The sheets progress from full hours to half hours, quarter hours, five-minute times and finally to the minute.
Ages 6-8
Updated July 2026
Curated by 
Poppy Fox
O'clock · #1
Nine clocks, every hand resting on a whole hour; read each one and write the digital time.
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O'clock and half past · #1
Nine clocks showing o'clock and half past times; read each and write the digital time.
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The quarter hours · #1
Nine clocks at o'clock, quarter past, half past and quarter to; write each digital time.
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Ten-minute marks · #1
Nine clocks set to ten-minute marks around the dial; read each and write the digital time.
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Five-minute marks · #1
Nine clocks set to five-minute marks; read the minutes carefully and write each digital time.
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Any minute · #1
Nine clocks that can show any minute; read the exact time and write it in digital form.
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O'clock · #2
Another nine analog clocks showing o'clock, read each and write the digital time.
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O'clock · #3
Nine more analog clocks showing o'clock, read each and write the digital time.
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O'clock and half past · #2
Another nine analog clocks showing o'clock and half past, read each and write the digital time.
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O'clock and half past · #3
Nine more analog clocks showing o'clock and half past, read each and write the digital time.
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The quarter hours · #2
Another nine analog clocks showing the quarter hours, read each and write the digital time.
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The quarter hours · #3
Nine more analog clocks showing the quarter hours, read each and write the digital time.
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Ten-minute marks · #2
Another nine analog clocks showing ten-minute marks, read each and write the digital time.
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Ten-minute marks · #3
Nine more analog clocks showing ten-minute marks, read each and write the digital time.
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Five-minute marks · #2
Another nine analog clocks showing five-minute marks, read each and write the digital time.
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Five-minute marks · #3
Nine more analog clocks showing five-minute marks, read each and write the digital time.
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Any minute · #2
Another nine analog clocks showing any minute, read each and write the digital time.
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Any minute · #3
Nine more analog clocks showing any minute, read each and write the digital time.
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Draw the hands: o'clock · #1
Draw the hands on nine clocks to show each time at o'clock, using the digital time under each clock.
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Draw the hands: o'clock · #2
More draw-the-hands practice: set nine clocks to o'clock, using the digital time under each clock.
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Draw the hands: o'clock and half past · #1
Draw the hands on nine clocks to show each time at o'clock and half past, using the digital time under each clock.
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Draw the hands: o'clock and half past · #2
More draw-the-hands practice: set nine clocks to o'clock and half past, using the digital time under each clock.
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Draw the hands: the quarter hours · #1
Draw the hands on nine clocks to show each time at the quarter hours, using the digital time under each clock.
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Draw the hands: the quarter hours · #2
More draw-the-hands practice: set nine clocks to the quarter hours, using the digital time under each clock.
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Draw the hands: ten-minute marks · #1
Draw the hands on nine clocks to show each time at ten-minute marks, using the digital time under each clock.
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Draw the hands: ten-minute marks · #2
More draw-the-hands practice: set nine clocks to ten-minute marks, using the digital time under each clock.
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Draw the hands: five-minute marks · #1
Draw the hands on nine clocks to show each time at five-minute marks, using the digital time under each clock.
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Draw the hands: five-minute marks · #2
More draw-the-hands practice: set nine clocks to five-minute marks, using the digital time under each clock.
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Draw the hands: the exact minute · #1
Draw the hands on nine clocks to show each time at the exact minute, using the digital time under each clock.
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Draw the hands: the exact minute · #2
More draw-the-hands practice: set nine clocks to the exact minute, using the digital time under each clock.
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Elapsed time: whole hours
Both clocks sit on the hour and the gap is always a whole number of hours, the gentlest possible start.
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Elapsed time: half hours
Half hours enter the gap, so the answer is sometimes an hour and a half rather than a round number of hours.
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Elapsed time: quarter hours
Quarter-hour steps in both the times and the gap, where fifteen and forty-five minutes stop being interchangeable.
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Elapsed time: five-minute steps
Gaps that do not divide neatly into a quarter of an hour, which is where counting on around the dial becomes necessary.
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Elapsed time across the hour
Every start time sits late in the hour, so the gap always crosses twelve and cannot be found by subtracting minutes alone.
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Elapsed time: hours and minutes
Gaps of two and three hours plus a half, so the answer has to be given in hours and minutes together.
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Elapsed time to the minute
Neither clock lands on a five-minute mark, the hardest version and the one closest to reading a real timetable.
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Match the clock: o'clock and half past
Five clocks and five digital times deliberately out of order, so working straight down the column gets you nowhere.
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Match the clock: quarter hours
Quarter past and quarter to on the same page, the pair most often written as the same digital time by mistake.
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Match the clock: five-minute marks
Times on the five-minute marks, where the digital column can only be matched by counting round the dial in fives.
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Match the clock: any minute
Minute hands that land between the marks, so each match needs the minute counted exactly rather than estimated.
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Match the clock: mixed times
A review page mixing every step taught so far, useful before moving on to elapsed time.
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The time in words: o'clock and half past
Six clocks with two ruled lines each, so the answer is a phrase like half past four rather than four digits.
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The time in words: quarter hours
Quarter to means the next hour, a fact that stays invisible in digital notation and becomes obvious in words.
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The time in words: five-minute marks
Times on the five-minute marks, which introduces the switch from past to to as the minute hand passes the six.
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The time in words: any minute
Minutes that fall between the marks, where the phrase has to name an exact number rather than a familiar chunk.
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Hands from words: o'clock and half past
The words are printed and the blank faces are empty, which tests understanding rather than copying from digits.
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Hands from words: quarter hours
Quarter to five has to be drawn near the four, the mistake this page exists to bring out in the open.
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Hands from words: five-minute marks
Phrases like twenty-five to eight, where both hands have to be placed and the hour hand is the one that gets forgotten.
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What time will it be? Quarter hours
A clock, a number of minutes to add and two boxes for the answer, all in quarter-hour steps.
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What time will it be? Five-minute steps
Steps that rarely land on a round quarter, so the sixty-minute wrap has to be handled properly.
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What time will it be? Hours later
Whole hours added to the clock, where the minutes stay put and only the hour digit has to move.
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What time will it be? Crossing the hour
Every start time sits in the last half of the hour, so every answer forces the hour digit up by one.
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What time will it be? To the minute
Odd starting minutes and odd steps, the version closest to working out when a journey actually ends.
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What time was it? Quarter hours
The same clocks worked backwards, which is a genuinely harder direction and rarely practised on its own.
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What time was it? Five-minute steps
Counting back in fives past the twelve, where the hour has to drop by one and often does not.
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Morning or afternoon? · #1
Ten daily activities to place in the right half of the day, because reading the dial is only half of telling the time.
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Morning or afternoon? · #2
A second shuffled set, where the borderline cases such as lunch are worth arguing about out loud.
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Morning or afternoon? · #3
A third shuffle of the same activities, handy as a quick oral warm-up rather than a written task.
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Order the times: o'clock and half past
Four times per row to rank, using only o'clock and half past so the comparison is about the hour digit.
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Order the times: quarter hours
Quarter-hour times where two entries often share an hour, so the minutes finally decide the order.
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Order the times: five-minute marks
Five-minute times crowded into the same hours, which makes careless reading of the minutes very visible.
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Order the times: any minute
Times to the exact minute, the version that mirrors reading a bus or train timetable column.
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Units of time: hours and days · #1
Twelve conversions between the units a child actually uses, from minutes in an hour to hours in a day.
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Units of time: hours and days · #2
A second shuffle of the same everyday conversions, including the half and quarter hour entries.
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Units of time: hours and days · #3
A third arrangement, useful once the single-unit facts are known and the multiples need practising.
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Units of time: months and years · #1
The long units, where a year has both twelve months and three hundred and sixty-five days depending on the question.
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Units of time: months and years · #2
A second long-unit page, reaching from seconds in five minutes up to years in two centuries.
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Minutes around the clock
One big dial with an empty box outside each number, because the numerals on a clock mean two things at once.
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Minutes around the clock, with hints
The same dial with fifteen, thirty and forty-five already printed, leaving eight boxes and a clear pattern to follow.
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Roman numeral clocks: o'clock
Nine dials lettered I to XII showing whole hours, the gentlest way in to a face without ordinary numbers.
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Roman numeral clocks: half hours
Half past added, where the hour hand sits between two Roman numerals and has to be read as the earlier one.
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Roman numeral clocks: quarter hours
Quarter hours on a Roman dial, where III and IX have to be recognised quickly to place the minute hand.
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Roman numeral clocks: five-minute marks
Five-minute times on Roman dials, which asks for the numeral and the times-five step at the same moment.
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Telling time word problems · #1
Six short stories about films finishing and journeys home, with steps of a quarter, half and whole hour.
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Telling time word problems · #2
A second set at the same level, including the questions that ask how long rather than what time.
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Telling time word problems · #3
A third page of everyday timings, useful as homework once the elapsed time sheets are coming back right.
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Telling time word problems · #4
Durations of up to an hour and a half, so most answers cross into the next hour and sometimes the one after.
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Telling time word problems · #5
Awkward durations such as thirty-five and fifty minutes, the numbers that make counting on in fives worth doing.
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Telling time word problems · #6
The hardest of the six, with gaps of over an hour and questions that ask for a duration rather than a clock time.
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The reading pages show nine analog clocks with a box under every one to write the digital time, and they climb in the order clocks are actually taught: full hours first, then half hours, then quarter hours, then five-minute times, then to the exact minute. Work through them in that order, one step at a time, and do not skip ahead because a child got lucky on a couple of half-past questions. After reading come the draw-the-hands pages, the time written out in words, matching an analog clock to its digital time, ordering times, and finally elapsed time, which is the skill every real timetable question actually tests.
Why the minute hand is green
Beginners do not misread the clock, they misread the hands: the short one is the hour, the long one is the minutes, and every single mistake at this stage comes from mixing them up. On these worksheets the minute hand is printed in green, so the child can name the two hands correctly before they have to do any counting. Reading an analog clock is still a core early-maths skill and one of the most requested worksheet topics by teachers, digital watches notwithstanding.
The parts nobody practises
Three things get skipped and then cause trouble later: what the numbers on the dial mean in minutes, whether an activity happens in the morning or later in the day, and how to work a clock backwards to find what time it was. There are pages for all three, plus Roman numeral dials for the clocks children meet on towers and mantelpieces, and units of time from minutes and hours up to decades and centuries.
Frequently asked questions
What grade level is telling time?
Ages 6-8, first and second grade in most curricula. O'clock and half past are typically first grade, quarter past, quarter to and five-minute times are second grade, and elapsed time usually lands in second or third. A child who cannot yet count by fives will struggle with the later sheets, so print the number charts and practise skip counting first.
Do the PDFs print on A4 as well as US Letter?
Yes. Every sheet is a one-page PDF built at US Letter size and it prints on A4 without losing any clock face. Use "actual size" or 100% scale, or "fit to page" if your printer has generous margins.
Can I use these for free in my classroom?
Yes. Print as many copies as you need for a class, a homeschool, a library or a tutoring session, at no cost and with no account. Reselling or re-uploading them is the only thing that is not allowed.
