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As I gear up to release the Creation Through The Flood unit this Wednesday {FREE for all email and RSS subscribers! No longer available},  I wanted to show you a couple of ways we teach our children the days of Creation.

Every child in our household over the age of 2 has made a Creation Book.   These are very simple to put together because the only skills you need are the ability to tear paper and slap on glue!

Supplies needed:

4 pieces of card stock
assorted colors of construction paper
(I buy mine from Discount School Supply)
glue
some sort of writing utensil
(I used colored pencils because that is what I had on hand)
yarn or ribbon
3-hole punch
(not shown)

Starting with the front cover:

Tear a blue globe, add green land, and write the title of your book along with your child’s name.

On the backside of the front cover will be Day 1:

Tear a black piece of construction paper and glue it onto the white card stock.  You can write Day 1 somewhere on the page as well.

Take your second piece of card stock and make Day 2:

This is made from 2 pieces of blue construction paper, torn with a little bit of white peeking out in between.

On the backside of this page is Day 3:

Day 3 is brown paper land and green plants.

Next page – Day 4:

Black construction paper background with bits of yellow for the stars, a yellow crescent moon, and a torn circle sun.

Turn the page over for Day 5:

Torn bits of fish on a blue background and blackbirds in the sky.  {I was making fish alongside my children and my 6 year old said, “Mommy, what is that?”  Yeah, it was that bad!}

Get your last page of card stock out and make Day 5:

My daughter’s rendition of Eve and my gingerbread-looking Adam along with a smattering of animals courtesy of the 5 year old.

And lastly, Day 7:

Yellow rays of Holiness to represent God resting.

We 3-hold punched all the pages and tied them up with string and read them all day long!

I used to type up the Scripture references that went with each day, but that took a tremendous amount of room and usually the child making the book wasn’t literate.  Then, we learned this wonderful little fingerplay for the Days of Creation and they can now “read” their book with ease!  Here are my children demonstrating how we teach the Days of Creation.

Enjoy!

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This past year our method of assigning school lessons changed a bit.  For one thing, we couldn’t find the assignment folders we used to use in stores anymore and secondly, we have less worksheets which made these folders less of a necessity. {In my opinion, less worksheets are a good thing!}

So, we took the index card method I was using right after our 7th child was born {and while we were dealing with his colic} and made it more of a permanent thing that could be used over and over.

Making these markable assignment cards are very simple.  All you need is:

index cards
clear contact paper
sharpie marker
wet erase marker
hole punch
metal book rings

1.  Use your sharpie to write one subject at the top of each index card.

2.  Cover each index card with clear contact paper (I love this stuff, but you can get them laminated if you like).

{See the scissors?  These are my non-stick scissors from Discount School Supply.  I use them for any project that requires me to cut through something that might end up stuck on my scissors.}

3.  Cut out each card and hole punch one corner.  Thread each child’s set of cards onto one metal book ring. {I used the largest size I could find at WalMart)

4.  Use a Vis-A-Vis wet erase marker to write out each child’s assignments for the week.

{Not every assignment card has lessons written on it for the week and not every card is separated out M-F.  Some have a weekly goal written on them like: Finish chapter 6 by Friday and some are blank so that the child can set his or her own goals or just to serve as a reminder that that subject needs to be done – ie. our Piano card.}

5.  Decide where you will put the assignment cards.  Ours are attached to each child’s crate where they can easily be seen by both the child and the mommy.

Every weekend during my planning time, I simply redo these cards and hang them back up for the next week.  I like that there is less paper being thrown away and less stuff lying around.

I’d love to hear how you handle assigning lessons and if you’ve found something that works for your family’s particular needs!

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