Week 3: Abraham (2)

He took him outside and said, "Look up at the heavens and count the stars—if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be." (Genesis 15:5)

You can find this picture here. I let Gabriel put the star stickers on it. I'm amazed at how well he can handle these little-bitty stickers now, compared to just a few weeks ago!

You can find this coloring page here.

Week 3: Abraham (1)

The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you.

"I will make you into a great nation
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.

I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."
(Genesis 12)

This coloring page can be found here.

Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom. Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.

The LORD said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, "Lift up your eyes from where you are and look north and south, east and west. All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you."
(Genesis 13:12-17)

This coloring page can be found here.

And here's a silly video for this week that any toddler will love!

Week 2b: Noah's Ark (3)

Here is the last part of our lessons about Noah. You can find the coloring page here and the rainbow here. I helped Gabriel with the rainbow to get the colors right.

A little break...

A quick update: because we were gone for 2 days last week, I got a little behind on Gabriel's lessons. So I decided to take this week off (we still have 1 Noah lesson to finish though) and prepare the lessons for the next few weeks. Next week we'll be learning about Abraham!

Week 2b: Noah's Ark (2)

In our second lesson about Noah, we learned about how God made it rain for 40 days and 40 nights. Gabriel put an ark, clouds, and raindrop stickers on this card.

And then he learned about the dove that Noah sent from the ark. You can find this coloring page here.

Week 2b: Noah's Ark (1)

Our next story is about Noah's Ark. First Gabriel colored this coloring page. He got a little excited with some dark colors which made it hard to see the picture! So I let him do another one and put that one on the card.

Then I printed some animals, cut them out and he pasted them on the card.


Here are some pictures you can print and use.


And here's a fun song to sing with your child.

Week 2a: Adam and Eve (2)

We learned about the saddest moment in history today, the first sin and God sending Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden. The coloring pages can be found here and here.

Gabriel got a little distracted...

Week 2a: Adam and Eve (1)

Today we started week 2 of Gabriel's Bible study. I am loving it so far and he is too! This week we're going to learn about Adam and Eve (lesson 1 & 2) and about Noah (Lesson 3, 4 & 5). Obviously we are skipping a few stories, but I'm sticking to the most well-known Bible stories while he is so young.

This coloring page can be found here. Gabriel was in a 'yellow mood' today and probably would have colored the whole page yellow if I had not given him some different colors!

Gabriel pasted the apples on the tree.

Week 1: Creation (5)

And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.

God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.

God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
(Genesis 1:24-32)

Gabriel colored this coloring page, which can be found here. He really went all out on this one!

Then he had lots of fun putting these stickers on the card.

Week 1: Creation (4)

And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day. (Genesis 1:20-23)

First, we read our Bible story.

I printed out 2 coloring pages at 50% (fish and birds) and had Gabriel color them. Then I cut them out and Gabriel pasted them on the card.

Week 1: Creation (3)

And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.

Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day. (Genesis 1:9-13)

Gabriel colored this coloring page I found here.

Then he pasted these flowers I cut from magazines.

Week 1: Creation (2)

And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day. (Genesis 1:6-8)

Gabriel loved putting these stickers on the paper.

And the cotton was even more fun!

Week 1: Creation (1)

Week 1 is about how God created the world in 6 days. On Day 1, He created light, and day and night. I decided to combine this with Day 4, when He created the sun, moon and stars.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. (Genesis 1:1-8)

And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day. (Genesis 1:14-19)

Today we made a postcard, with on one side Day and the other side Night. I cut out the sun, clouds, moon and stars because Gabriel doesn't know how to use scissors yet. I let Gabriel glue and paste them on the card (with a little help). Then I let him color, with orange and pink markers to create a sunset, and with yellow chalk to make more stars. Gabriel was very proud of his work!

And here is a song that you can sing with your toddler this week: