Paper Plate Birthday Cake Clock

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1 Get Read! Suggested for parent & chld teams, or ndvduals 2nd grade and up Supples: 1 Chnette large paper dnner plate each 1 small ellow cake plate each 1 endale colored plastc straw each 1 gold or ellow ppe cleaner each 1 rad wth long tas, each Downloads: Download followng from (Clck on Brthda Is No Ordnar, scroll to projects) Clock Face: prnt one each on 8 1/2 x 11 n. whte paper Center Name Crcle: prnts 4 per sheet, each person needs 1 crcle, cop onto red paper Clock Hand wth Earth: prnts 6 per sheet, each person needs 1, cop onto whte CRDSTOCK Tools: scssors for each or to share markers or craons 1 or 2 hole punches glue stcks to share 1 or 2 lack marker for names 1 or 2 rolls clear packng tape surface to color on (tale, cardoard, old catalogs) for each partcpant Optonal extras: star wre, (cut to dameter of plate), stapler, alternatve clock hands (drlled plastc spoons or tongue depressors are great), plastc flowers, wre utterfles, stck on stars, artfcal flowers, leaves or petals, anthng decoratve for outsde rm, though nothng addtonal s necessar. Prep: Punch center hole n large and small paper plates (How to fnd center? Trace ottom of plate onto tssue paper. Cut. Fold n quarters. Crossng pont s center. Overla on plate, mark.) n awl or scssor pont works ncel. Cop Clock Face, Center Name, and Clock Hand Cut out aove f ounger chldren present Cut straws to three nches elow plastc end

2 Drectons 1. Fll out name and rthda on small red round clock face. 2. Cut pzza slces off edge of ellow plate to make Sun. 3. Color whte clock faces. Start wth four gloes and markers for Solstce and Equnoxes. Explan meanng of se seasonal markers. (See elow.) Color candles. 4. Glue clock faces to ack of large Chnette Dnner Plate 5. Draw a lne across plate edge at each Solstce and Equnox, dvdng plate lp nto four seasonal sectons. 6. Color each seasonal secton a dfferent color, or strpe n dfferent colors. 7. Cut out clock hand. Color Earth. 8. Stack all parts on top of clock face wth clock hand on ottom, n Yellow Sun plate, Red small clock face wth name. 9. Stck rad through all laers and attach to plate snugl. 10. Fnd YOUR rthda on whte clock face. 11. Punch a hole n plate rm at our rthda. 12. Cut plastc straw three nches elow end. 13. Make straw candle: doule gold ppe cleaner and slde folded end through straw untl flame peeks out top. 14. Thread nto punched hole and end so shorter end candle leans out of wa of turnng clock hand. 15. Tape candle to ack of plate. 16. dd wre star trm? (Staple n place.) Or ron? Or artfcal flowers? Or star stckers? Slk petals? Tr drllng a plastc spoon for clock hand, or a Popscle stck, or a tongue depressor.

3 Drectons, contnued Now! Set clock hand on toda. Rotate Earth from toda to YOUR rthda, marked at candle. That s how far Earth needs to travel to our next rthda cake! Tr anone s rthda. dd candles for whole faml, add our cat, our dog, our teachers! Ths smple project teaches ver complex concept of Earth s crcle around Sun n one ear s tme. It s helpful, efore startng ths project, to use a gloe to phscall act out Earth s dal turnng, spnnng da nto nght, ever 24 hours. Next, add wde crcle Earth s makng around Sun ever 365 das. (Menton Leap Year onl f group s older.) Emphasze that turnng and crclng never stops, and crcle s not a perfect crcle. It s squshed (or ellptcal) just a lttle. Explan that solstces, Decemer 21st, n wnter, and June 21st, n summer, mark place where Earth s mperfect crcle swngs farst from Sun. The equnoxes mark das when Earth s closest to Sun, Septemer 21st, egnnng of fall, and March 21st, frst da of sprng.

4 Clock Face

5 Clock Face Brthda Brthda How man tmes have ou r t h d a crcled How man tmes have ou r t h d a crcled Brthda Brthda How man tmes have r ou t h d a crcled How man tmes have ou r t h d a crcled

6 Clock Hand wth Earth