What times are on the 1st grade sheet?

Hours and half hours only, like 5:00, 4:30, and 12:30. The long hand goes on the 12 or the 6 every time, so the drawing practice is mostly about hand length and where the short hand sits at half past. Six clocks per page, with an answer key.

Why draw hands instead of just reading clocks?

Reading lets a child guess from the picture. Drawing makes them decide where each hand belongs, and a wrong idea about the hour hand shows up right away on the page. The 1.MD.B.3 standard covers telling and writing time, and drawing is the surest way to check that both hands are understood.

Are there easier and harder versions?

Yes. The sheet offers easier, default, and more difficult prints, so you can pick the one that fits the day. Each print is a fresh set of six times, which is useful when a second child needs the same sheet.

1st grade drawing clock hands

1st grade drawing clock hands worksheets

Drawing clock hands worksheets for 1st grade print a time for each of six empty clock faces, and your child draws the hands: a short one for the hour, a long one for the minutes. Times stay on the hour and half hour, like 5:00 and 4:30. Drawing the time is reading a clock run backwards, and it shows more.

Free printable PDF worksheet, aligned to Common Core 1.MD.B.3.

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The kind of problems you'll get

Draw a short hour hand and a long minute hand for each time.

At 3:00, where do the hands point?
Answer: The short hand points to 3; the long hand points to 12.

Most problems on this sheet sit beside a picture, model or diagram, so this is the worked example the sheet itself prints. The answer key on page two prints the answer under every problem.

Every print pulls a fresh set of problems at this level, so a make-up test or a second sibling never gets the same sheet.

What's on each sheet

Drawing clock hands. Draw a short hour hand and a long minute hand for each time. 6 problems per page.

Every version prints on US Letter or A4, with its answer key after the problems.

This sheet is one of the versions on the 1st grade telling time page, with its own difficulty choices and its own answer key.

How to teach this

Keep the sheet's rule in front of you: the short hand shows the hour, the long hand shows the minutes. Have your child draw the long hand first for these times, since it only ever points to the 12 or the 6, then say the hour before drawing the short hand. Hand length is the trap. Kids draw two hands the same size and then cannot read their own clock. Agree on a rule, like the short hand stops halfway to the numbers, and check it on each of the six clocks. At 4:30, the hour hand should sit between the 4 and the 5, not on the 4. Ask, has it gotten to 5 yet? A quick check: cover the printed time and ask your child to read the clock they just drew. If it reads back as 4:30, it is right.

Watch for: Kids draw both hands the same length, so their own clock cannot be read. The rule box says short hand for the hour and long hand for the minutes. Check the lengths before checking where the hands point. Kids read the minute number as a numeral and put the long hand on the 4 for 6:40. Every numeral is five minutes, so 40 minutes means the 8. Skip counting by fives around the face before drawing fixes it.

Common questions about 1st grade drawing clock hands

What times are on the 1st grade sheet?: Hours and half hours only, like 5:00, 4:30, and 12:30. The long hand goes on the 12 or the 6 every time, so the drawing practice is mostly about hand length and where the short hand sits at half past. Six clocks per page, with an answer key.
Why draw hands instead of just reading clocks?: Reading lets a child guess from the picture. Drawing makes them decide where each hand belongs, and a wrong idea about the hour hand shows up right away on the page. The 1.MD.B.3 standard covers telling and writing time, and drawing is the surest way to check that both hands are understood.
Are there easier and harder versions?: Yes. The sheet offers easier, default, and more difficult prints, so you can pick the one that fits the day. Each print is a fresh set of six times, which is useful when a second child needs the same sheet.

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Aligned to Common Core 1.MD.B.3. Reviewed by the One more sheet team. Content version 241, updated October 2026.

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