Church School Lesson: Creation

God, the Creator, knows everything and can do anything. He is powerful enough to create all things. No one is wiser or more powerful than God. The Bible tells us how God created the world. In Genesis 1:1 says, In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.

God created the world in six days. The Bible tells what God created on each day. When God first created the earth, it was dark and not in any shape. The Bible also says the earth was wet. I then ask the children to close their eyes... what do you sees? They answered me "NOTHING". Yes! Darkness is when you cannot see anything. Just like at night when there is no light! Then God says, "Let there be light and there was light." (Genesis 1:3) God just say and things will happened. Isn't God is so powerful? The light God called it day and darkness called it night. This was first day.

And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. God called the expanse "sky." This was second day.

And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good. Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. This was third day.

And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. This was fourth day.

And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." This was fifth day.

And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground. This was sixth day.

By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

Summary:
Day 1 - Light
Day 2 - Sky
Day 3 - Land, Seas & Plants
Day 4 - Sun, Moon, Stars
Day 5 - Sea Animals & Birds
Day 6 - Land Animals & Human beings

The lesson takes about 15mins. After the lesson, I thought them a simple verse from the Bible.
Hebrews 11:3 - the worlds were framed by the word of God (KJV)

I conclude the lesson with a simple craft and again, the idea I got it from my all time favourite site - Merryn's blog. I modified the craft to suit my children... very simple and the toddler enjoy doing it.

Get the children trace their hand print on a yellow colour paper, then cut it out (some with teacher's help). Then paste the hand print at the paper plate. It looks like a sun.

the Preschool Class with their craft,

the verse was written on top of the paper plate.

Father's Day Craft

I use Exodus 20:12 for the children memory verses "Honour your father and your mother". I help the toddler to understand what it means to honour our parents. Honour means respect and obey, it's an action, we need to listen to our parents to what they say. No one is always right, everyone make mistake along the way, but no matter what, we still need to respect our parents by listen to them.

In conjunction with Father's Day, I get them to think what can they do for their fathers. Some said make a card, some said give him a kiss, etc. I then challenge them to make the whole next week a special week for their father by giving them a book of coupon with a special treat written in it. E.g. This coupon entitle daddy to enjoy a bible story, big hug, big kiss, massage, etc. On top of that, they need obey their parents.

I end the lesson by getting them to make a card for their father. I get the idea from Merryn's blog.

Children doing their craft work

More practice

After completing the glass painting, Abigail keep asking for more art and craft so I let her do it on the paper. I guided her with four flowers and let her do what she likes on the paper. I can see she's trying to print a flower shape but I guess she did not know how to make the flower shape yet. She ended up keep printing the dot next to each other.

Instead of doing a flower shape, she did a line of dots...

the final product - the nice flowers are with guidance, those dot dot without shapes were Abigail's creativity :P I then hold her finger to draw stems and leaves...

Glass Painting for Toddler

I was thinking what to do for my mom as Mother's Day gift for this year. She's a very practical lady and do not like her children to waste money buying gift that she might not need... so, doing craft is a way to express ourselves.

I thought of having Abigail to do it with me. On one hand, I can get her involve and on the other hand, I also want her to pick up the value of doing something using our hand for another person to show our love.

When I told her we're going to do craft, she will shout out with joy. She just love doing art and craft. :) I get ready all the material on the table and she's jumping on the floor showing her excitement.

Then I get her seated on my lap and brief her what we were going to do. I hold her finger, dip into the colour and then print it on the glass to make a shape of a flower. These steps repeated until there are many flowers on the glass. Abigail enjoyed doing it. She wanted to do it on her own but she did not know how to make it a flower shape yet. She can just dip her finger into the colour and print it on the glass, then she need guidance to print a flower shape on the glass.

Hand & Footprint Eagle

1 Nov, 2009
Cloudy

This is a very simple and easy craft for a toddler. Abigail pick up very fast and she enjoy doing it.

Instruction:
1. Trace the toddler bare foot on a piece of paper.
2. Trace your hand with fingers spread slightly on each side of the foot.
3. Draw the head, eyes, nose and feet. Add in the feathers.

Abigail First Craft ~ Hand Print Crab

Sunday, 18 October, 2009
Sunny

This is the first craft that Abigail using her hands to print a crab. My initial idea was to have 3 different colour of crab in this art paper however, Abigail was afraid of this crab, so... just one crab on it.

This is a very simple craft to start with toddler.

How to do:

First, colour the palm then follow by the fingers. (you can have different colour on the palm and fingers... your choice)

Then stamp it onto a white paper. Repeat with the other hand.

Finally using your finger, put two black fingerprint as the eyes on the 'thumb'.

Here comes the crab!!