We read the story using props: Day 1-I turned on the flashlight and waved it around the room! I realized keeping 4 1 year olds paying attention, I had to keep them interested. Day 2-I gave each of them a cotton ball to play with in their hands while they listened. Day 3-They each were given a leaf to hold and observe. Day 4-They each were given a star sticker on their shirt. Believe it or not, they enjoyed trying to figure out what that was on their shirts. Day 5-They each were given a ocean bath toy to play with along with watching stuffed animals they flew around them. Day 6-They played with bath toy animals and animal figurines from the zoo. This helped tremendously when telling the story because it kept them occupied as well as near me because they wanted to know what came next! At the end of the story, I took them outside to play and 'sort' animals that live on the land and those that live in the water. I put the animals in the water table. The bottom level of the table had water for the sea creatures, and the top level was dry with a 'mountain' for animals on the land.
Below are different ways we learned about the Creation Story: one day at a time!
We watched a Youtube video of the creation story daily as well as read different versions of the Creation Story from different children's Bibles to keep the whole story fresh for them.
Day 1: God created light. He separated light from darkness. We sung the song "This Little Light of Mine." We also played with a flashlight in our play tent. It was the perfect day for doing this because it was rainy and gloomy outside; therefore, made the light show up more! Then, we painted light onto darkness. (dark paper)
Day 2: God separated the waters. God created the sky. I allowed them to play in cotton balls for sensory play. They then patted down the construction paper water and glued clouds down on their paper. One simply placed their cotton balls and water after I put glue on it. The other enjoyed pulling the cotton balls apart and dipping them in glue himself.
Day 3: God created dry ground and plants. First, I let the boys play in the dirt. Great sensory play, and most boys love getting dirty! Then, I showed them how to scoop up dirt in their shovels. It was a little bit of a challenge, but great fine motor practice. After that, they took turns pouring the seeds into the pot. Again, not many seeds actually made it in the pot, but it was interesting watching them try. Last, I poured the water into the pot. I let the boys feel the water as I poured it in there for extra sensory play.
I also painted their hands and made a flower out of their handprints.
Day 4: God created the sun, moon, and stars. I put glue stick glue on the moon and sun and let them place anywhere on paper. Then, I let them stick silver stars all around. Then we had calendar time. We sung "Days of the Week" and "Months of the Year." I then let them have fun with calendar and Velcro pieces! Great for their fine motors!
Day 4: God created the sun, moon, and stars. I put glue stick glue on the moon and sun and let them place anywhere on paper. Then, I let them stick silver stars all around. Then we had calendar time. We sung "Days of the Week" and "Months of the Year." I then let them have fun with calendar and Velcro pieces! Great for their fine motors!
Day 5: God created the fish of the sea and the birds in the sky! I saw on Pinterest a Sunday school class that taught their toddlers using baskets of items for each lesson. I thought that was a great idea because it teaches the boys how to put their toys up. I try to only get out one bucket of toys at a time. For this day, I used his bath toys that were ducks, dolphins, fish, frogs, etc. The boys loved being able to play with these little guys! Then, I also got out my bird puppet. J loved sticking his hand in his mouth as I made him talk. I then allowed them to play with the bird puppet when it was time to play with the other 'creatures' of the sea and sky! Last, the boys enjoyed feather painting. My mom had a bag of white craft feathers that worked perfect for this. I had to do this activity one at a time because 1 year olds love to stick things in their mouth still. While I had one at the table working, the other was playing with the stuffed animals and box toys. Last, the boys enjoyed playing in blue whip cream! They were finding the fish in the sea!
Day 6: God created animals! The boys enjoyed playing with the animal puzzles and box of bath toy animals. Although they struggled putting the animals on correctly, it was great practice reviewing their animal names and sounds. One puzzle even made the sounds of the animals as we placed the puzzle piece on the board correctly! They also loved all the stuffed animals. J loves giving hugs to all the animals! The last thing they did was tried to paint an animal using foam stamps. They didn't turn out the best, but the boys had fun pushing down on the stamp after picking out the animal they wanted to paint. We also read stories about animals and visited the zoo!
Land animal sensory play
We ended the week by making the following book:
We also focused on the letter A and apples for the creation story. I wanted them to learn about fruit and the forbidden fruit as well. We discussed and tried several different types of fruits for snack, but focused on apples since they started with the letter Aa.
Painting with an apple...They had troubles gripping the apple so I decided to add a plastic baby's knife so they had something to grip on to as they painted. It worked much better. I love how J studied what he was painting with after the first stamp. (picture on left)
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