A novelty clock that has a thin skeleton visible may also make great children’s clocks and there are many different styles to choose from, like the Maple’s Sales Solid Brass Skeleton Mechanical Clock With Pendulum available from Sears for about $130 that features polished brass turning gears and natural wood skeleton, or the River City Clocks Burl Wood Skeleton Clock for just over $130 from Amazon, or the Hermle Table Clock, 14-day Skeleton Dome Anniversary Clock from Edmund Scientifics for just under $200, which is very unique because it is encased in a clear glass dome to showcase the full inner workings of the gears, pendulum and chimes.

There’s also a great piece for the mantle called the Mantel Skeleton Clock by Loricron that has a wrought Iron frame and an antique brass dial with Roman numerals and has a single bell strike movement for under $170.

For something really different there’s the River City Black Column Rosewood Silver Dial Skeleton, cuckoo clocks sold by Ambient Weather for about $120, or the brass Skeleton Mantle Clock with a swinging pendulum for $170 available from Shop of Clocks, or the mahogany Arch Skeleton Clock for just over $100.

These skeleton clocks take on many different forms like chiming clocks and even retro wall clocks or antique clocks with musical clock themes. Some are also clocks alarm styles and many are high-end designer clocks that use the inner workings as masterful pieces of art.

Most skeleton clocks will incorporate some part of a rhythm clock or use the internal beauty of chime clocks to be part of the skeleton’s details. Large wall clocks that take the form of a skeleton are very strange because many are long and thin or almost invisible because the mechanism may appear to blend into the wall like the Kassel Skeleton Wall Clock by Kassel which is available through Amazon for about $80.

These skeleton’s are really fun clocks with a lot more personality than ones that are all encased because the way clocks move and how the gears and chimes and pendulums operate is not only fascinating to watch but are made of beautiful and strange shaped pieces that are very decorative. If you’ve never seen one of these clocks I recommend taking a look and considering teaching your children how clocks operate by using them as childrens wall clocks.

I think they would be a good idea in schools instead of those ugly large wall clocks that look so industrial. But if you hope to find a kids wall clocks by typing in Kids skeleton wall clock into a search you will be sorely disappointed to find only clocks that have pictures of skeletons on them. The best clocks for kids are those that are novelty wall clocks for adults that you decide will be used for a child’s room.