Abraham and Sarah

9/30/12 - Update
I added an additional part to our Abraham and Sarah lesson this time around by doing a week of baby Isaac.  We read Gen 18:9-14 and 21:1-6 and made a couple of baby Isaac crafts.  The first was a 3D baby using a tp roll.  Here the girls are cuddling their baby Isaac like Sarah would have done :)

Here they are laughing at him since his name means son of laughter :)

Next we made a simple coloring craft to help facilitate talking about how God always keeps his promises.

9/23/12 - Update
We read Abraham again, Gen 12:1-7, 15: 1-6, and repeated the same crafts as our last Abraham lesson but with a slight twist.  We sang the first verse of the Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob song as well as Father Abraham.  I was so impressed at how much both of the girls remembered about the story and I know the songs help a ton!
For the family stars this time we painted them, pink and purple :)

The Magic Stars went better this time but still not great.  I diluted the tempera to a 1:1 but I think it was still too thick.  Also, my crayon might not be the best so perhaps next time I need to get better wax for this craft.  The girls still had fun and we talked about Abraham and how big his family was so it was a success :)

Daddy provided some science lessons to go along with this story this time around.  One night while looking at the stars, Faith asked why she couldn't see them during the day so he gave them a great and 3 year old understandable lesson the next day.

We've been reading the story of Abraham and Sarah (Gen 15:1-6, 17:1-8, 15-17, 19).  I took advantage of the days getting shorter and one night after church we laid down on the driveway and looked up at the stars.  Faith really enjoyed that.  Unfortunately in the city there weren't that many for her to see but it was a great introduction to the story of Abraham for her.

I cut out 4 stars (one for each member of our family) out of white card stock and Faith covered them with aluminum foil.  Then we wrote every ones name on them.  These hung on the fridge until we sent them to Daddy and every time we read about God telling Abram to look toward heaven and tell the stars if thou be able to number them, Faith reminded me that we had our own stars and that we saw other stars when we laid down in the driveway!

Another craft I was really excited about was Magic Stars, but for us they weren't so magic.  I drew stars with white crayons on white card stock and the theory on the website was that if you painted the paper in black then the white stars would show through.  http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/space/mmagic-stars.htm  Well, I didn't dilute the paint with water so we ended up with a black piece of card stock.  I will certainly try this craft again when stars are called for and will follow the directions this time.  Faith had a good time, after all, paint was involved!