I will be using the King James Version and The Creation correlates with Genesis 1 (Also similar is Moses 2 from the Pearl of Great Price- a book of scripture recognized by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But in the following I used the Genesis account).
Day 1: Light and Darkness; Day and Night
Activity Suggestion: Take a bath with glow water. Shows something being light without a sun or stars or the moon.
Day 2: separated waters from the firmament. Firmament is called Heaven.(I don't know if I can accurately explain this one. I don't remember watching the Creation, so I believe in it, but I'm not afraid to admit that because of that, I'm not an expert the way God is.)
Day 3: Dry land (Earth and Seas), grass, herbs, fruits
Activity Suggestion: Make Sand
Day 4: Sun, Moon, stars and seasons
Activity Suggestion: look at a star chart and star gaze
Day 5: fowls, whales (birds and things in the sea)
Activity: Draw your favorite bird or sea creature
Day 6: cattle and beasts and creeping things and mankind
Activity: I would say draw your favorite animal but it was also the day mankind was created. I would read the following scripture without simplifying it and allow your kids to ask questions if they don't understand something.
Genesis 1:27-28, "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."
I feel this is a very important scripture. Maybe sing "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" and help them understand that since we are made in the image of God, God also has eyes, ears, mouth and nose and what-not.
Day 7: Day of Rest
The End! Bedtime! Or you can relate this to the Sabbath Day.
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