Material Required:
- Two sheets of 18″ x 24″ newsprint or poster paper
- Scotch tape
- A pencil
- 12 picture frames for 2″ x 3″ photos
- 12 2″ x 3″ photos
- A clock-making kit
- A ruler
- 8.5 x 11 sheet of cardstock paper
- Scissors
- Blue painter’s tape
- Nails
- A hammer
STEP 1: Plan It Out:
Lay out your two sheets of newsprint or poster paper on a flat surface, and tape them together with some scotch tape.
On top of the taped paper, arrange your clock part and picture frames how you’d want them to look like on your wall.
When you’ve got all your frames laid out to your liking, use your pencil to trace around the frames.
Set aside the drawing after you’ve traced all the frames; you’re going to be using this drawing in Step 5.
We bought our frames at our local craft store. Our frames are for small pictures (2” x 3”), but feel free to experiment with larger frames and pictures if you’ve got the wall space for it!
STEP 2: Fill Yer Frames:
Now it’s time to put your photos in—make sure they’re sized to fit your frames.
Here’s some fun ideas for what kind of photos you could use for your clock:
- Pictures that represent the number of each hour—that’s what we did for our clock.
- Photos of 12 different places you’ve been to.
- Pics of 12 different foods you’d eat during each for the hour it represents. For example, we’d have pics of pizza for 12, cuz pizza’s good for lunch and late-nite munchies!
- Photos of the 12 gifts your true love gave to you during the 12 days of Christmas.
STEP 3: Cover It Up:
With your photos framed, it’s time to make the clock part look good, too.
With a pencil, a ruler and some scissors, draw and cut out a square or rectangle shape from your letter-sized cardstock paper that’s big enough to cover your clock part.
We cut our cover to match with the size of one of our frames: 3.25″ x 3.75″.
The paper clock cover you just crafted will take the place of the clock’s face when you assemble all the clock pieces, so make sure your cover has a hole in the middle of it so that it will fit through the hand shaft (the piece of metal that sticks out of the clock part).
STEP 4: Put the Tick to the Tock:
Time to assemble your clock piece!
Follow the instructions that come with your clock-making kit to put it all together. Put the cover you made in Step 3 where the instructions tell you to put in the “clock face.”
STEP 5: Time to Nail It:
Take tracing you did in Step 1 and use some blue tape to put it on the wall where you want your photo clock to be.
With the frame tracings as a guide, hammer in the nails for your frames on top of the tracings.
After you’re done hammering in the nails for all the frames and the clock piece, carefully tear off the paper guide. The nails you’ve put in the wall should still be intact.
STEP 6: Hang It Up!
Now with all your nails in place, you can hang up your frames as well as your clock piece.
Pop in an AA battery, set your clock, and stand back to admire the awesome personalized