A Beautiful World

Developing Talents #3 ~ Write a poem, story, or short play that teaches a principle of the gospel or is about Heavenly Father’s creations.

For the past week, I was thinking to start work on the Developing Talents activities together.

And, from all the listed activities, I found that this activity 3 is quite a tough one for the kids - "Write a poem, story, or short play that teaches a principle of the gospel or is about Heavenly Father's creations."

Write a poem, story, or short play are not the things that they like or not their strengths. And, the second part of it is gospel principle or about Heavenly Father’s creation.

My mind quickly think about what they learn about the creation story in 7 days.

I prepared the lesson with the help from the Church website on the pictures of the creation story.

We started our lesson by reading a poem “The Creation by Lisa Phipps”.

Then followed with The Creation – Each Day a Gift. Explaining to them that the great plan of happiness included the creation of a beautiful world, where we would come to live our mortal lives.

The Creation took 6 days and was done by Jesus Christ under the direction of Heavenly Father.

Then, we study the related scriptures in the Book of Genesis, and have them to colour for pictures.

After that, we were starting to do the Creation Story Sequence Cards.

I found this idea from April’s Homemaking. It is really a great ideas in teaching or showing about the story of Heavenly Father’s creation.

Both Issac and Annabelle actually really got into this idea and pretty soon, they were bouncing ideas off of each other and working together.

Awhile back I started to get the art materials that we need to do this craft.

All those we managed to get it from Mr. DIY Store. We got out glitters, some collection of stickers.

We used only 1 cardstock circles for each day’s card, and using craft glue, glued a craft stick at the back of the cardstock.

We decorated each day’s card with a picture representing what God created on each day.

We can’t find pre-cut circles cardstock, we just trace out a circle onto cardstock and cut it out.

We used various stickers, lots of colour glitters, and we did a bit differently from the original to suit what the materials that we have.

Here are close ups of each day for both Issac and Annabelle:

Day 1 ~ God divided the light from the darkness, making day and night.

         

Day 2 ~ He organised the heaven and the earth.

         

Day 3 ~ He divided the land from the waters and created grass, flowers, trees, fruits, and herbs.

         

Day 4 ~ He created the sun, moon, and stars.

         

Day 5 ~ The fish and fowl were created.

         

Day 6 ~ He created the animals. Then Heavenly Father created man and woman.

         

Day 7 ~ He took a rest.

         

I told both Issac and Annabelle that, they could se them during story time, read the story right out of the Holy Bible, and help up each card as they read the day.

         

Or used the cards prompt the younger children to learn each day and the order of the creation story. It can be a “tool” for their Baby Sitter Kit which they are compiling, after their earlier lesson on the taking care of the young children.

         

Well, quite a fun activity for all of us!