Teo and I had so much fun making this Creation Story
book. All the things we used are easily available.
First, I had to make the paper bag book. We have so much
brown paper bags from the grocery that I decided to make books out of them. I
followed this tutorial but decided to bind the paper bags straight in the
middle instead of punching holes on the sides.
I used the wordings for our story from here.
I hope this inspires you to make your own. We did this in roughly about two months and continue to enjoy reading it together.
I showed Teo how to tear paper but since he still needs to practice his fine motor skills (finger muscles), I put little tears on the bigger pieces of paper so he can just use his hands and fingers altogether. He enjoys sticking the paper more. I am amazed on how he puts the pieces into place. Such focus! (for a toddler!)
He likes squeezing the glue onto the paper too! Another way to refine those finger muscles.
I do the cutting of course. These are all prepared beforehand. Usually, during Teo's 1 and a half hour nap.
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| putting glue onto a seaweed |
I wrote the words on pieces of paper the glued them on their corresponding page. We're still doing mini lessons on The Creation Story like collecting things from nature and sorting them so we read our book a few times a week. Teo loves pointing at the shapes and pictures and really works hard on saying the names.
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| Day 5 |
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| Day 6. We ran out of light blue paper so we used Teo's blue finger painting. |
Have you done a similar project? Please tell me about it. And if you have questions on how to make this, leave them in the comments.
