We started with a trip to Home Depot. I forgot my credit card (it was in the diaper bag after a trip to duPont), but between the few bucks in my wallet, a couple dollars' worth of change in my pockets, and the three bucks in Luke's wallet, we managed to get the supplies we needed without another trip back. We got a 2x2 piece of plywood for the face, and some colored duct tape, nuts, washers, and a bolt to make the hands.
We put two coats of primer/sealer on the board for a base coat, and then started decorating. The blessing of deciding to homeschool Jude is that we had a lot of the arts and crafts supplies already in the house. We did need to make a Michael's run for a few things (like Tacky Glue because Elmer's wasn't adhering things right) but the bulk of the supplies we already had.
Starting our layout...
We didn't necessarily do things in the "correct" order -- it was pretty much an "easiest to hardest" progression. Here he's working on December - La Fiesta de Virgen de Guadalupe (Our Lady of Guadalupe).
Putting together January -- La Fiesta de los Tres Reyes Magos (Three Kings' Day).
He free-hand drew the silhouettes of the Magi on their dromedaries, and cut them out and painted them black.
He opted for white stars to be the night star, and a gold star for the guiding star.
Slowly we managed to make inroads on the project. By the end of Saturday, he had about half of the clock put together.
Sunday involved the trip to Michael's. He stayed home and did more work while Matthew and I went out. By Sunday night, we were about 2/3 done. We changed gears and got die-cut numbers because the pipe cleaner ones weren't sticking properly.
Today, we finished the project. He has a doctor appointment on Thursday - the day it's due - and won't get to school until lunch or so. The plan is to take it to school tomorrow, so that even if he isn't in the building, at least his project is.
You have to find the humor in a felt Salvador del Mundo (Savior of the World) sporting google eyes. He tried to make each section unique, and hadn't used those yet.
Almost done. The sections were finished, now we just had to build the clock hands. They're made out of doubled over duct tape, and anchored with a carriage bolt and nuts. We put a nut and washer between each of the hands and the board, to help the hands to easily clear all of the things glued to the clock face.
The finished clock:
¿Qué hora es? What time is it?
A la una: enero-
la fiesta de Los Tres Reyes Magos
(January - Epiphany, or Three Kings' Day)
A las dos: febrero/marzo - la fiesta de Carnival; una fiesta antes de miércoles de
ceniza.
(Februrary/March - Carnival - a fiesta before Ash Wednesday)
A las tres: marzo/abril - Semana Santa; la fiesta celebra el muerto de Jesús
(March/April - Holy Week, celebrating the death of Jesus)
A las quatro: abril - el Día de Los Niños/el Día de Los Libros
(April - Day of the Children; a festival dedicated to the honor and well-being of children. In Mexican heritage areas of the US, it is also celebrated as a day to read to your children -- "Day of the Books")
Los ninos del mundo
(Children of the World)
A las cinco: mayo - el Día de Las Madres
(May - Mother's Day)
A las seis: junio - el Día de San Juan Bautista
(June - Feast of St. John the Baptist. In Puerto Rico, statues of San Juan Bautista are carried to and immersed in rivers.)
A las siete: julio- Los Sanfermines y el corriendo
de los toros
(July - The Feast of San Fermin and the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain)
Our pipe-cleaner "torito."
A las ocho: agosto - la fiesta a El Salvador del Mundo. 
(August - the feast of the Savior of the World, patron of El Salvador. It's a week-long festival culminating in a re-enactment of the Transfiguration. A statue of the Risen Jesus is lowered into an opened globe, and raised back up again in gleaming white robes.)
Our googley-eyed Jesus ascending
A las nueve: septiembre
- la Independencia de México (el Grito de Dolores)
(September - Mexican Independence Day. This is a depiction of the church where the revolution began.)
A las diez: octubre - el Día de la Raza; Colón descubierto el mundo nuevo
(October: literally, "Day of the Race", Columbus discovers the new world.)
A las once: noviembre - el Día de los Muertos
(November: Day of the Dead, or All Soul's Day. Families remember their deceased loved ones, many visiting cemeteries and eating picnic-style meals there.)
Ornately decorated skulls are common motifs for this celebration.
A las doce: diciembre - el Día de la Virgen de Guadalupe
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