Days of Creation Paper Chain Craft

3.03.2017

Markers, pens, and paper fill one of our kitchen drawers; I like having those materials easily accessible to my kiddos as they will often have periods of "needing to draw."  I don't even want to know how many pieces of paper are used during these phases-- they come and go quite frequently!

I do enjoy their creative spirits as I have one, too!  I try to add in some sort of craft or art project into our learning.  My right-sided brain needs that! 

After reading a short snippet of the Creation Story, Little Sis and I created a simple Days of Creation Paper Chain craft. 

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Little Sis is quite the artist.  Nevermind our craft supplies, she is often raiding my kitchen cupboards to use for her art creations.  Just the other day she comes waving a jellyfish made of aluminum foil!   Another creation was using plastic wrap for hair.... I gotta say, I love her creativity--- most of the time!

I do love that she is so creative, but I enjoy giving her guidance in her art so that she isn't using up all of my supplies!  

I pulled out Bede's History of US that I had purchased a while back but never used; the book is a very gentle introduction to history.  It begins with Creation and then gives a page to some person, or time in history.  

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She's heard the Creation story from our bible readings and at Church, so this activity was simply a chance to let her creativity flow and allow her to create her own images of the days of creation.

Supplies:


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I took two pieces of paper and folded them into fourths-- the long way.  I cut each strip along the fold.

On each strip I wrote a day of creation- Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, etc.

I read through the short Creation story that was included in Bede's History of Us and then had Little Sis create pictures describing what was created each day.

Day 4 of the creation story

Day 1: Light and Dark
Day 2: God created the sky to separate the waters.
Day 3: God created dry land and plants.
Day 4: God Created the sun, moon, and stars.
Day 5: God created the ocean animals and birds of the air.
Day 6: God created land animals, and Adam and Eve.
Day 7: He declared it was good; he rested.

After creating our paper chain, I noticed quite a large error!  The book mentions that the 'land beasts' were created on Day 5, but they in fact were created on Day 6 along with man.  Totally didn't catch that one!

Loved watching Little Sis create her pictures for each day of creation!

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After completing the Days of Creation paper chain, you can use this activity to re-tell the creation story to someone else.

This activity is a great way to reinforce comprehension, and add a little creative arts to learning about the bible.  

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