Craftivity: Paper Dolls

As part of our week with Abraham (Traveling with a Tent - the letter 't'), I found it appropriate to introduce my girls to the wonderful world of cutout paper dolls. Our song for the week was 'Father Abraham' and yes, he did have a number of sons.

(For those who only read the more popular parts of the Bible, Ishmael and Isaac were not his only offspring... after Sarah died, Abraham remarried and had a number of children with his new wife Keturah; although she's sometimes referred to as his concubine. And so Abraham is not just the father of the Jews and the Arabs, but also a number of other ethnic groups, including the Midianites.  Read Genesis 25:1-6.)
This is such a simple craft, yet it can incorporate so many physical and mental skills, it's really a wonderful exercise to engage your children with.

- Paper Folding (Fine Motor)
- Fractions (Half, quarters etc)
- Scissor Skills
- Colouring, Drawing faces, clothes etc.
- Counting

God's Little Explorers: Traveling with a Tent

For week five of God's Little Explorers, we moved on to the story of God's Promise to Abraham, and the letter 't'.

Traveling with a Tent

An Exploration of the letter 't'

Letter: t

Theme/Focus: God's Promise to Abraham

God's Little Explorers: Noah's Zany Zoo

We continued our journey through the Bible with God's Little Explorers, to the letter ‘z’, and a study of Noah, and the enduring faithfulness of God.

Noah’s Zany Zoo

An Exploration of the Letter 'z'

Spring, Seed Catalogues and Rainbows Craftivity

Spring is Sprung
The grass is riz
I wonder where the birdies is!

(or in Daddy's case, I wonder where the mower is!)

God's Little Explorers: Adam and Eve and the Apple

As we continue our journey through the Bible with God's Little Explorers, we stop at what I believe is a critical moment of understanding for every little soul, and lies at the crux (literally) of our relationship with God.

The problem of sin.

This is a very deep knowledge for little ones to grasp, and needs to be approached in conjunction with the answer to sin, lest we leave them without hope.

I chose to spend more than a week with this topic, and simply followed the leading of the Spirit in determining when I felt Ada (3.5) particularly, had a good grasp of the problem and the promised solution.

Adam and Eve and the Apple

An Exploration of the Letter 'a'

Printable: The A-MAZE-ING Alphabet

In our exploration of the Alphabet, I have continually seen the need for constant exposure to letters, from pointing them out on the side of a truck, to pointing to the words as I read them in a book, even knowing that my little ones might not yet make much sense of them.

At this stage both Ada (3.5) and Ida (2) can recite the alphabet and name any letter they see, both lower and upper cases. Ada can also name the sounds letters make, and enjoys telling me what letter words begin with ("Mummy! Poo starts with p...p...P!")

I feel it's time to start giving her exposure to the SHAPE of letters as well as the SOUND of letters. She enjoys simple mazes, so I decided to use letter shapes in maze form. This is a complete alphabet set to go along with the Alphabet Roll'n'Graph set I made a few weeks ago. You van find that here.