Days of Creation Printables & Activities
Teaching God’s creation to your children is important in laying down a firm Biblical foundation. Too often we take for granted that our kids will learn about God’s creation through the church, VBS, or that they will pick it up through reading Bible stories. The story of Creation is far too imperative to leave to chance. Genesis 1:1 says, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth.” Your early learners will love to learn about the days of creation. Kids are always fascinated to hear about what God created and when. I encourage you to teach your child about God’s creation or else the world will teach them something else. God bless you on this venture! Take a look at our Days of Creation Printables and explore the amazing things He made! Be sure to check out our other Teaching Bible Truths resources.
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Creation Story Scripture Challenge
The first place to learn about God’s creation is in His word. Challenge yourself and your kids to read the creation story not just from a storybook, but from The Book. Download your own copy of THE CREATION STORY SCRIPTURE CHALLENGE by clicking on the image to your left.
Days of Creation Scripture Reading
Even though I usually like to read straight from the Bible, this printable Creation Scripture Reading makes completing the Creation Story Scripture Challenge that much easier. The scripture is divided into days for convenience.
Bible Tracing Sheet
When teaching any Bible story, make sure to reiterate with your kids that the story comes from God’s word, the Bible. This simple Bible tracing sheet may be something you might want to add to the beginning of this lesson.
God Created Everything Reader
This emergent reader is one of my favorites amongst the Days of Creation printables. This reader is simple and repetitive. We used it at the beginning of the unit. I love that the kids can color it, making it their own. This is one reader we read multiple times. The kids love that they can “read” it too. Since the sentence structure repeats itself, kids are able to memorize the words. For students just starting to read, this book is a great confidence builder! Download your own copy here!
Day 1 of Creation Activities
Start each day of creation off with ready to go activities! Our Day 1 of Creation activities include a craft, light demonstration, coloring pages or activity sheet. To read more about how we teach the first day of creation, click here!
Day 2 of Creation Activities
Activity Sheet
The Day 2 Creation activity sheet is easy to implement in a class setting and with your own children. There are a few different ways you can use this. Of course, it could simply be a coloring sheet, but I personally like to use it with cotton balls in the clouds and blue paint or marker in the waves. A number of years ago I used this same concept but cut out waves from blue construction paper, used cotton balls for clouds and pasted it all to a sheet of white construction paper. So, whatever works better for you!
Hands-on Demonstration
This hands-on demonstration is fun for the kids and doesn’t take too much prep or time. It’s entertaining to see your kids face too when you let them spray the shaving cream into the blue water. Obviously, the blue water represents the water on the Earth and the shaving cream represents the water in the air- clouds.
Day 3 of Creation Activities
On day 3 of creation, God created land and all the plants that inhabit it including trees, grass, and flowers. There are many different ways to approach a craft to represent this day. The ideas are mind blowing! Just do a quick search on the web and you will understand my meaning! The first craft is the one we chose to do this year, but in a class setting where the outdoors is unavailable, try the second option.
Nature Collage
It is time to get outside and collect nature items such as leaves, flowers, grass, and dirt. Give your kids a bucket, bag, or shoe box to collect their discoveries in. Once your kiddo has a nice size collection, go through it with them or as a group. In the past, we have used shoe boxes so that once we got our items collected we could add construction paper to the outside with the words, “On the 3rd day, God created land, trees, grass, plants, and flowers.” This year we don’t have enough shoe boxes, so I plan on giving them a small poster board. Most kids will love the idea of gluing dirt, leaves, and flowers to create their own one of a kind collage.
Activity Sheet
This option is an easy go-to printable activity sheet. There are a couple of ways to approach this craft. One, you can cut out the clipart on page 3 and let your students glue the flowers, bushes, and additional trees to the scene. Another option is to let your your children draw around the tree. Thirdly, a fun approach to this activity sheet is to supply your student with green paper for bushes and stickers for the flowers.
Day 4 of Creation Activities
Activity Sheet
Day 4 of Creation Activity Sheet is perfect for early learners. Start by reminding your child that God separated light from darkness on the 1st day and made day and night. In that, your child may want to color the day side yellow and the night side gray or black. After coloring, students will cut out the great lights that God created on the 4th day. Next, students can paste the sun, moon, and stars to the correct side… day or night.
Science Lab Investigation
This science lab is inexpensive and effective for teaching light and shadows. Shadows are created with a light and an opaque object. If a light shines on an opaque object (solid object that light can not transmit), then a shadow will be made. Darkness is the absence of light. This lab uses the light from the Sun, opaque objects, and something to color with. In this lab, you are reminding your students that God created the sun to rule the day.
We decided to use toy dinosaur figurines as our opaque objects. My kids took paper, pencils, and their dinosaurs out to a sunny area. We taped the dinosaur feet to the paper so that the dinosaurs were more stable while we shaded in where the shadow was. It didn’t take us long before we started talking about how God calls us to be light in a dark world.
For older students, you can increase the complexity of this simple lab by leaving your materials out in the sun and then waiting for an hour or more to pass. When you and your student come back to where you left your paper and opaque object, you will find that the shadow moved. This is a good time to ask your student questions: Did the sun move? Did the Earth move? Did the opaque object move? You might want to bust out the globe and talk about how God made the Earth rotate on an axis causing day and night. Truthfully, this is a hard concept for younger kids to grasp, but you can at least expose them to the idea.
Day 5 of Creation Activities
Activity Sheet 1
On the 5th day of Creation, God created fowl and sea creatures. I have used these for a young preschooler class at church. If possible, let the students feel feathers and see pictures of different types of birds. Students can color the birds while you talk about the sound an owl makes. Take this time to discuss the sound a chicken makes and what hens lay (eggs). Eagles are pirds of prey and a sign of strength. Eagles wings are mentioned in the Bible in Isaiah 30:41. Most birds have a certain song or sound they make.
Activity Sheet 2
You may want to print the “God made fish” sheet onto the back of the first sheet. I usually give my students or kids a blue crayon and fish stickers to use with their ocean scene. They are encouraged to decorate their ocean scene with all kinds of sea creatures.
Day 6 of Creation Activities
Cut & Paste Activity Sheet
In this activity set, you will find both colored and black and white images. I do this to accommodate the needs of a home setting as opposed to a larger class where you may want to save your ink! After giving each student page 2 of the pack, I then give them the written words, “God created animals. God created creeping things. God created man and woman.” While they are gluing it on, I read it to them.
Next, I pass out the animal clipart for them to glue to their papers. Then comes the creeping things. Finally, Adam and Eve are added to their papers. During this time, I talk to them about their favorite animals and what they think Adam and Eve looked like. Happy learning!
God Made Me Cut & Paste Activity Sheet & Printables
This cut & paste God Made Me Worksheet set and printables are super cute! For the cut & paste activity sheet, choose from the 6 options as to which one best suits your kiddo. Cut along the dotted line to separate the word bank from the main portion. Allow your student to cut out the words. Next, work with your student to figure out where the parts of the body are. Perfect activity to reiterate that God made each of us! Check out our set of God Made Me coloring sheets too! Go to our GOD MADE ME PRINTABLES to DOWNLOAD!
Days of Creation Coloring Pages
The Days of Creation Coloring Sheets are the perfect refresher to review the days of creation. Use a sheet daily as you read through the days of creation scripture or print this set out as a booklet to read on the closing day of your lessons. I always loved using these to teach toddlers and preschoolers when in a large setting. It is fun for the kids to pick out all of the different pictures they see within the numbers themselves. Visually, the creation numbers are appealing and memorable. GO TO DAYS OF CREATION COLORING PAGES TO DOWNLOAD.
Days of Creation Draw & Write Sheets
This Days of Creation Draw & Write Sheets focus on what God created and on what day. Each Draw & Write Sheet asks the student to write about a particular day of Creation. There are 2 levels of Draw & Write Sheets allowing for more-or-less writing space. To download them for your homeschool, visit Days of Creation Journal. If you would like to see all of our Draw & Write Sheets, check out our DRAW & WRITE SHEET PAGE 🙂
Creation Words Vowel Search
Simple and sweet. This worksheet is a quick practice sheet that allows you to review the vowels with your early learner. It was meant to be used with a dot marker, but after we had an accident recently with our set of dot markers, we opted to put stickers on the vowels.
Creation Ordinal Number Match-Up
This is a quick and easy introduction to ordinal numbers. Have the student match the words with the ordinal numbers. To guide your child, read the first ordinal number (3rd) in the right column to them. Next, ask your child what word starts with the sound, “th.” Use your finger to point to the first word at the top of the left-hand column. Does “First” begin with the sound, “th?” Walk them through each word until they find the one that starts with the “th” sound. Have fun 🙂
Creation Ordinal Number Match-Up
The 2 page addition set has a total of 6 addition problems. I used these worksheets while focusing on a creation unit. It only features 3 addition problems per page. Creation related pictures make it easy for the child to count the objects one by one. This is intended for a young learner just starting with addition and writing.
The Creation - The Beginner's Bible
The Beginner’s Bible presents this animated version of the The Creation Story. At less than 30 minutes long, it is just the right length. Out of all of the free options on YouTube, this one was our favorite. Well worth the watching.
Another Free Creation Resource
Answers in Genesis offers a wealth of Biblical information for adults and kids. The link provided with take you to their kids page about Creation. If you are interested in learning more about what the Bible says in regards to Creation, dinosaurs, and other controversial topics, take a look at Answers in Genesis homepage.
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