10 Best Toddler Alarm Clocks of 2024

The Mella Ready To Rise alarm clock for kids uses a combination of colors and facial expressions to show your child when it’s time for bed and time to rise. Plus it has a feature that plays white noise in the background.

The digital face display is both cute and easy to understand.

The two-part circles for eyes and a single mouth line indicate it’s time to sleep. When it’s almost time to get up, the larger eye circular pieces light up and an additional mouth line gives a partial smile. Then, when it’s time to get up, the face has full circle eyes and a smile.

There is also a digital time display. Also on the display is a sun to indicate wake time and a moon to indicate sleep time.

The ring around the clock face is also a night light that can shine in six colors. The baby night light is optional and comes with different brightness levels.

This toddler alarm clock from Claessen’s Kids has a clear, bright analog clock face with an additional round display attached to one side.

This second face is split in two. The upper half displays a picture of a child playing outside with a dog. The lower half displays a child asleep in bed.

When your child should be asleep the bottom picture will glow gently, and when it is time for your little one to get up, the upper picture lights up.

You can set the alarm to go off with either a train sound, a cuckoo, or a gentle bird song. When it’s time for the alarm to go off, the sound starts off quietly and builds in volume until it is turned off.

A large mushroom-shaped button at the top of the clock provides a snooze function and also turns on the night light. This light goes out again after ten minutes, so it works well for middle-of-the-night bathroom trips or other brief wakings.

Measuring about 3.8 inches high, this alarm clock displays date, day, room temperature, aside from time.

It features 8 alarm tones including folk rhymes. What’s more is that it has seven colorful night lights for your little one to choose. This can become handy when your child is afraid of the dark while they sleep.

Two alarms allow you to set either weekday and weekend wake-up times or main sleep and nap time. In addition, there is a snooze timer function.

Its minimalistic design is perfect to suit any bed room.

For the youngest of early risers, the Dream and Shine Cloud provides simple colored light cues to tell your child when it’s time to go to sleep, almost time to get up, and time to rise and shine.

If the cloud is glowing red, it means it’s time to sleep. In the morning, the cloud turns on and glows yellow to indicate it’s almost time for everyone to be awake. Finally, the cloud glows green to let your little one know it’s okay to get up.

The light in the cloud glows at one of three brightness levels and after 20 minutes the light turns off, allowing your child to sleep in their darkened room.

There is a “soothing mode” in which you can set the cloud to play a lullaby or some gentle white noise or rain sounds. This works well as a wind-down period before sleep.

Establishing the same time-for-bed and time-to-wake routine is important not just for kids but for adults too. However, the reality of modern family life means that we may have to get up and go to bed when it fits in with our ever-changing routines.

If this is true for your family, the Hatch Baby Rest has your back.

You can set the alarm to work automatically or by using either your kid’s tablet or your smartphone and setting it remotely. There is also the capability to turn it on manually by tapping the top of the light. That means the Hatch works as a night light as well as an okay-to-wake alarm.

The app has a Toddler Lock option that prevents your child from turning the alarm on or off, or from changing the settings manually. There is also the ability to control multiple units from one app so each child can have a personalized alarm in their room.

The Little Teddi from Windflyer has both a digital clock display and a separate face display. This clock works well for toddlers who can’t tell the time, as well as older kids who can.

When it’s time to sleep, the face on the digital display closes its eyes and the mouth shrinks to a short line. In the morning, the eyes open up and the smile grows broader so your child knows it’s time to get up.

Between sleep and wake, there is a buffer zone. You can set this to last for between five and 90 minutes. You can choose to allow your child to stay awake but stay in bed, get up and play quietly, or anything else you like during this period.

There are also four background sounds from this device, a separate nap timer,  and a child lock to prevent your little one from changing the clock’s settings.

The Jall clock has all the basic features you find on the majority of toddler alarm clocks and some unique ones. As well as the usual bed-time and wake-time light-up functions, it also has an extra nine-minute snooze function for an added sleep which can be snoozed for up to five times.

The clock can play seven tunes from birdsong, ocean wave, streams, beep, wind bells, soft lullaby, and a piano.

There is a digital clock display but lacks the analog option. Moreover, an accessible FM radio can be played by pressing the FM button for two seconds which automatically scans all channels available.

Despite what the name suggests, this clock doesn’t take the form of a big red rooster. Instead, it is a cute cartoon-style dog sitting on its back legs and holding a ball between its front paws.

The ball lights up green when it is time to wake and red when it is time to sleep. This makes it simple for kids to understand, even before they can tell the time on the digital clock face.

You can set two different alarm times and change the amount of time the green light stays on.

If it’s not critical that your child gets up at a specific time, there is also a function to use the alarm with just the light rather than the light and buzzer together. This way the alarm won’t necessarily wake up your sleeping child if, by some luck, they are sleeping a little later than usual.

Although not designed specifically for toddlers, this star soother projector night light can do everything a toddler alarm clock does. It has the additional advantage of being a clock that will appeal to older children too.

Set the light to glow in one of ten colors for sleep time and another of the ten for the wake-up alarm. There is a digital clock display so your child can use the standard clock when they are older.

You can also remove the standard lamp cover and replace it with one of the six projector shades included with the lamp. These shades project a soothing 360-degree scene across the walls and ceiling.

Finally, you can use the lamp without a shade for a single color projection, as well as streaming music or bedtime stories of your choosing via the built-in Bluetooth speaker.

This is another item that isn’t made specifically as a toddler alarm clock, but it does have the features you will need. There’s also the added advantage of it being an item that, if your child doesn’t get on well with a toddler alarm, you can still use it elsewhere in the house.

You begin by pairing the lamp with your smart home device. You can then set the lamp to come on and go off at any time with the colors of your choice. And with 16 million colors and shades, you are going to find something that works for you and your toddler.

After set-up, you can use your smart device to override your alarms at any time, change the color of the lamp, or set the brightness. This works either via the app or through voice control. If you have a child who will instruct Google or Alexa, you’ll have to lock them out of the lamp.