Daily Idea #361: What Time Is It?

It’s officially summer! We’ve been creating daily ideas for over 15 months, and we are finally in the last 5 days to round off a whole year full of activities.

For today’s daily idea we will be marking time by creating a sundial. Use the medium of your choice (legos, rocks and a stick, a paper plate and a pencil…) and mark the center of the space. At the top of the hour, any hour— 9am, 10am, 11am… and place the sundial outside in a sunny spot with no other shadows. Mark with a rock, another lego piece, a marker… where the shadow falls with the number of that hour. For example, if the start of the hour that you place the sundial outside is at 10am, the place where the shadow falls is marked as 10. Continue to do that every hour (or approximate where the hours would be from there) to create the rest of the 12 hour clock.