If you are a very brave Sunday School teacher you can complete this Days of Creation Boook with your preschoolers. I’ll admit I wouldn’t be that brave. Instead this was part of our Kindergarten curriculum, though it would make a great homeschool preschool lesson.
Getting started on Days of Creation book
As we covered Creation, I told my kids on the first day of Creation God created light and dark and separated them. Then I gave them yellow and black paint and let them paint their own masterpiece. They could use any of our painting materials, so they got out brayers, paint brushes, used their fingers. We got some interesting ideas from it. After they finished their first piece I let them have as many colors as they wanted. The other artworks will be saved to use for wrapping paper.
Princess experimenting with a brayer.
Batman used mostly black for his first painting with this small little spot of yellow. He explained it was the dollar store. They’re obsessed with it right now because that’s where they get to go for being dry all night.
Superman’s second piece was this super cool multi-colored masterpiece that was completely covered. His also was the Dollar Store.
Superman showing off his dry diaper. You have to celebrate the small moments.
Why make this Creation book?
Little kids are concrete and tactile, and putting together a Days of Creation book like this helps them figure out what God did each day. It also gives them a physical book to help them tell the story.
Continue the art project with PART 2 of creation book.
Learn more about the Days of Creation
- Genesis– all the Genesis lessons in one place
- Days of Creation Rummy Printable card game
- What did the angels think of Creation
- Creation story bean bags
- God created the world lesson
And of course, don’t forget to check out my Genesis Pinterest Board.
This is fantastic! I liked your approach of tying this open-ended activity with something they are learning about. The picture of Batman with his tongue sticking out cracked me up. And I am pretty impressed with the results – very striking. I am learning every day from you and other moms participating in an Open-Ended festival.
What a great idea! And another great one to use it for wrapping paper!
great paint contrast! I love it and your righ tit flows wonderful with the first day of creation!
That is a brilliant idea. Batman did a great job of covering his whole page, we're still working on that with Froglet (not for Open-ended Art, just in general).