I had a couple of hours with just Dan and Jemima this afternoon and so we did a craft I’d been wanting to do for ages.
Basically, as we talked through our Bible story we created a giant picture. It was so much fun and great to have another way of chatting about what we’ve been learning.
Dan is now at the stage where he will happily do something like this for a good while – although it certainly helps that there are lots of different tasks involved so it doesn’t involve too much solid concentration. Jemima hangs out in her play-gym while we’re doing this – it’s tough being 12 weeks old!
Perfect world, I would do this bit by bit. I’d do the light and dark and sky one day, another day we’d do the water, another day we’d make animals. But Mikey can’t bear anything like this so getting it done has depended on Mikey being somewhere else.
Dan really enjoyed it. We got messy and chatted about the things God made. It was fab!
In terms of preparation, I guess this is a more time-consuming task. I bought things like cheap blue wrapping paper and flower and star stickers a while ago and had chopped up a bread bag for the water a couple of evenings ago. To be honest, in order to make the most of unexpectedly having some time with Dan, he watched Zingzillas while I got the rest ready!
Oh and that green thing is a tree, OK? I know it looks like a giant leek!
Watch out for new posts on great books to read with your kids and some CUTE videos of Mikey telling our Bible story.
