Creation/Earth Day Preschool Theme

Today is Earth Day so I decided to talk about the creation of our earth and ways we can take care of the earth with my son for preschool.

 I used some visuals I have from my mother from when I was growing up to tell of the Creation of the Earth.  These are also some really cute visuals to use when telling about the Creation.

To reinforce the idea that God created the earth we used this activity where my son cut out the letters and glued "God" where it was supposed to go in the story.

 I also used printables from this Earth Day Pack.

 I also used this printable book to color and talk about taking care of our earth.

 Here are some more Earth Day Printables.  We also got onto Starfall and did their Earth Day activity.

We watched the Scholastic Book DVD that has the story Trashy Town on it. You could also watch Planet Earth videos or Wall-E.

My son painted his own earth with a paper plate and blue and green paint.

I was going to have us go outside and pick up some trash and enjoy the beauty outside, but it is a stormy day so we'll have to enjoy our earth indoors.

Noah's Ark Preschool Theme

Today we talked about Noah's Ark.

We have the Noah's Ark Little People Play set that is a lot of fun to use for this theme.  To tell the story I used the set.  I hid the animals around the living room.  When it came time for Noah to gather all the animals I had my son find the animals and put them in the ark.  After all the animals were gathered we put Noah and his wife in the ark.  Then we swayed the ark back and forth and used our hands to pretend it was raining.  Then when it was time we let all the animals out and my son found them new "homes".  Of course, he wanted a turn hiding the animals and telling the story too.

I also read Jan Brett's "On Noah's Ark" board book.  It has great illustrations and is not very wordy so it easily keeps small children engaged in the story.

Our main source for the day was from Living Intentionally.  She has a huge Noah's Ark pack that we enjoyed several activities from.

Here my son is drawing a picture of a penguin.

This link has several coloring pages like the one below.

You can find this printable book and more Noah's Ark activities here.

You can find more Noah's Ark ideas here and here.