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Creation lesson activity Mystery of History 1

April 19, 2018 Ticia 11 Comments

Future Ticia here, in the fall of 2018 we’re cycling back to Ancient History for the last time, and I wanted to see what we’ve done in the past in our history lessons. Since we’ll start off with this Creation lesson, I thought this would be a good place to start looking at, but my kids are a little bit older than this lesson is intended for.

This is a bit of an odd post since our homeschool history curriculum is written from a Christian point of view it includes things from the Bible, that you’d normally find in a homeschool Bible lesson.  So, I wasn’t quite sure whether to put this as history or Bible, so I’m going to do a bit of both.

We read the first few lessons in The Mystery of History (affiliate link) and learned about how God created the world and how God created man.  To reinforce this Creation lesson we did two things:

Creation story lesson for kindergarten using mystery of history 1

Creation lesson mini book

Creation story mini book drawn by kindergarten kid

We made a mini-booklet where the kids took turns illustrating the different days of creation.  This one was my favorite picture.  Batman drew God resting on His bed in heaven.  He was quite proud of himself.  Okay, so I was proud of him too. The idea was for the pages to each be rectangles, but… my kids had other ideas and cut out the pages themselves.

I’ll also say here are a couple of more Creation mini-books

  • Interactive preschool Creation mini-book
  • Creation minibook with jello stickers (I can’t find that one, so I’ll have to look for it later)

Creation lesson play dough activity

They tried to mold man out of play-dough like God molded Adam from the dirt.  We all agreed it was hard, and we’re very glad that we didn’t have to try and make a person out of the dirt.

Creation story challenge mold man from play dough (1)


My little creator had quite a lot of fun making his human.

Then just like God, we rested from all our hard work.

after the Creation story lesson they rested just like God

Well, the boys rested.  Princess……… well after a while I gave up on her resting, and she painted her fingernails.
And she’s quite proud of herself.

Breaking news angels amazed at all God has create

Are you teaching this lesson with multiple ages?

Creation story writing prompt for kids
Lazy Ticia hasn’t replaced this logo yet, I know I’m lazy

Then try: Creation story writing prompt for elementary kids. I’m debating about using this writing prompt with my middle schoolers as well, just requiring more from them. We’ll see.

Some more Ancient History Lesson Ideas for you

This isn’t your cup of tea, or maybe you want your history lessons to start off differently? Then check out these ideas:

  • Stonehenge lesson
  • Ancient Greece picture books
  • Battle of Marathon for preschool
  • Ancient Greece preschool lesson
  • Greek gods and goddesses notebooking page

I originally published this July, 2010! Look at how little my kids were.

Bible, history 4th grade, ancient history, Genesis, kindergarten, Old Testament

Comments

  1. Pathfinder Mom says

    July 27, 2010 at 12:32 pm

    Cute lesson. I'm impressed with Princess, I still can't paint my nails by myself even now! I am SO right-handed.

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  2. An Almost Unschooling Mom says

    July 27, 2010 at 1:01 pm

    Princess really does NOT look tired 🙂

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  3. MaryAnne says

    July 27, 2010 at 5:25 pm

    I'm also impressed that Princess can paint her own fingernails! And I agree, it's very hard to make a person out of playdough!

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  4. Raising a Happy Child says

    July 27, 2010 at 5:42 pm

    I just love the last picture – she is so full of energy.

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  5. littlewondersdays says

    July 27, 2010 at 6:31 pm

    Great lesson. They look like they really enjoyed it too.

    I also wanted to let you know that we went to see Toy Story 3 thanks to your summer bucket list! I'll be posting it later this week.

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  6. Christianne @ Little Page Turners says

    July 27, 2010 at 10:04 pm

    A girl after my own heart! Who needs a nap when there are nails to be done? 😉

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  7. Christy says

    July 28, 2010 at 2:33 am

    So cute!

    Imagine the responsibility of creating man and the world. The thought makes me tired.

    I'm impressed with the fingernails too. I don't even paint mine. Reagan would love to paint hers if Daddy would allow it (he's not budging on that).

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  8. Kylie says

    July 28, 2010 at 4:53 am

    Very cute, it so gorgeous when they really start participating in the lessons and you have stuff to show for it isn't it!

    LOL on the blog design…I spent quite awhile looking at clip art pictures. I saved about 10 of my favourites, then mulled over them, got rid of a few more, then asked the family to vote (yes I was that bad) and that weeded out a few more.

    In the end what I have is not even one of the graphics I picked. I did have monkey's but Jolanthe stumbled onto the one we used in the end.

    Probably no help at all but good luck. I think in the end it will always look good and I just reminded myself that whatever I ended up with had to be better than what I had!!

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  9. Elise says

    July 28, 2010 at 5:31 am

    Why would you nap when you can make your nails all pretty! I think if I ever let my little girl do this she would request it EVERY single time during rest time.

    I know what you mean about making people out of play doh – it is a real skill.

    This post made me smile.

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  10. Our Family says

    July 30, 2010 at 1:35 am

    Hi! I found you through Raising Rock Stars! What great ideas!! And what a precious family you have!!
    Jessica

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  11. Jackie H. says

    August 2, 2010 at 1:35 am

    Cute ideas. So much more creative than the typical creation lesson ideas that seem to be repeated over and over 😉

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