Learning about God

Some of my friends asked me to share the "Bible-based" activities we've been doing at home, so I thought I'll just record them down on a separate page.  Feel free to borrow these "lessons", but do link back should you blog about them, and I would really love to hear how they went, or any suggestions you have! :)

Oct 2011

Jonah and the great fish: Craftwork cum re-enactment of the story of Jonah.
Details are over in this post!

Aug 2011

We're mainly relying on Bible stories these days, rather than craft activities... but do stayed tuned as some activities have been planned for the months to come!  Hop over to this post to see recommendations for good Bible storybooks, from readers themselves... 

The Tower of Babel (14th-18th Feb 2011)

We "built" a "Tower of Babel" using building blocks:

And did another craft!

Junior J stamped the bricks of the tower using a rectangular shape cut from an old bath sponge,
and stamped the men using another shape from the same sponge.
Then he stamped the question marks using one of my rubber stamps as well as normal black ink.

More details at this post. :)

Noah's Ark (7th-11th Feb 2011)

We role-played the account of Noah using Lego:

And did one craftwork:

Crayola's Slick Stix for the mountain and sky, paint for the grass.  I guided the boy in painting the rainbow, and we also spent time mixing the paints to get the secondary colours.  Animal stickers from Daiso/Popular.

We also read Peter Spier's "Noah's Ark".  More details at this post.

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7 Days of Creation (17th-28th Jan 2011)

We read the stories on creation from his Chinese-English Bible storybook from Junior J's Godpa, and then did one craftwork for each day that God created something:

Day 1: This took 2 sessions, one session for little boy to have free reign with black paint and paintbrush, another to write the words in gold glitter.

Day 2: I separated the drawing block by pasting down several strips of double-sided tape across the middle section, and had the boy paint the sea and sky on his own.  Then we peeled off the backing of the tape (to symbolize "separation" of the waters), and then pasted bits of construction paper for the sky.

Day 3: Sandpaper for land, oil pastels for the sea, and then poster paints to fill in the sky and sea.
Then we had another session to draw the trees using oil pastels, and I stuck on double-sided tape and let the boy paste on bits of corn husks to represent grass... and he glued on apples that were punched from construction paper.

Day 4: Again, one session for painting the background, then another to paste all the pre-cut shapes for the sun, moon and stars, and glitter glue for the words.

Day 5: Again, free reign with the brush and poster paints (I folded the paper into half and he painted the sky half, added some green paint and then painted the sea half)... Then another session where he pasted on stickers, fish cut from aluminium foil and birds that I folded.  We tried out Crayola's Twistables Slick Stixs when writing the words, and these are really great! :)

Day 6: We used the Slick Stixs to draw the land and trees, and then little boy used a sponge to dab blue and green paint to fill in the colours.  The next session was spent pasting down animal stickers (from Daiso and Popular).  Can you spot the caterpillar climbing up the tree? :)

Now little boy confidently exclaims "GOD!" everytime you ask him "Who made ______ (fill in any animal or plant)".  So I think its mission accomplished for this first round of lessons! :)

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