It's been four years now since I did a unit on creation with my kiddos, and it's fourth child's turn to do some preschool crafting! You can see Levi's day-of-creation crafts from four years ago here. His are definitely more involved than Toby's -- such is life with four kids instead of two -- but we did change things up a bit this time around.
DAYS ONE and TWO
DAYS ONE and TWO
Day one: Toby's first experience with a glue stick (black paper to white). Not terribly successful (think, half a glue stick smashed onto the paper . . . ).
Day two: The picture doesn't look like much, but he colored the clouds and water with chalk. I was hoping it would have a more dramatic effect on paper, but it didn't. Truth be told, I had intended to use cotton balls for clouds, but we didn't have any, and I didn't make it to the store before week's end. Keepin' it real. Day two is Toby's favorite to say out loud: "God separated the clouds and the water!"
DAY THREE
Oh, Mommy's getting brave now. Out came the paint! Toby dipped the bottom of a pop bottle into a bowl of blue paint and pressed it onto the paper to make petals. He did really well at this, working slowly and methodically. After the paint dried, I added stems and leaves. It's chaotic artwork, but you get the idea. Here he is, working on it:
DAY FOUR
A conglomeration of art medium here. Glue stick again for the black paper, fine motor skills in placing star stickers, a moon cut out of sparkly sticky foam paper. For the sun, Toby used a Q-tip to pull rays out of a blog of yellow paint.
DAYS FIVE and SIX
We lost some steam on days five and six and resorted to stickers for both days. :) I must confess that my collection of animal stickers was sorely lacking -- most were from a sheet of motivational stickers that say clever things like, "bear-y good" and "gnu you could." But even still, picking stickers off a sheet is good fine motor practice, and on day five we did a bit of classification (sky and sea).
Over the last month, we've worked on memorizing Genesis 1:1 (which Toby knows but refuses to say, I think) and answering the first catechism question (Who made you? God), which he repeatedly answers with, "nobody." My fourth son is goofy and stubborn and manipulative and frustrating and unbelievably charming. :)
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