Thursday, May 26, 2011

Godly Play - Creation

Here are some good resources for using Godly Play to present the story of Creation from the Bible.  Godly Play is a Montessori approach that lets children experience the stories and parables from the Bible through beautiful (and expensive) wooden sets.
  • Working at Play has pictures of the Creation story cards.
  • This YouTube video shows the presentation.  The link is for the first part; there are three or four videos to see the whole presentation.
  • I found the script through a Google search, but it originates from here.
I finally bought the book Young Children and Worship and am hoping to incorporate it into our Bible time.  I hope to use two shelves in our living room for Godly Play where I can rotate in and out the different play sets for the Bible stories.  Considering how Bear likes to act out stories, this should be a hit.

Here are the story cards I made.  I just used construction paper and will laminate them once my new laminating pouches arrive. Day 7 is just a plain white card.

How many of you use Godly Play at home?
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7 comments:

  1. JillybeanMay 27, 2011 at 12:41 AM

    I love these story cards! I downloaded pictures representing the items on each day of creation but these are lovely! Just wondering about the blank day for the seventh day...it was a day of rest, a day for God to admire all he had made...for us it is a day to worship Him that made it....I'm not sure what that would like like in card form? I used a picture of a torah scroll to remind Lamb that we learn about God by searching our scriptures.

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  2. UnknownMay 27, 2011 at 7:04 AM

    We incorporate Bible time already, but I really want to start a more Montessori approach in the fall. I've been planning and gathering ideas... just thought up a way to do the Garden of Eden yesterday, if I can ever sew a felt tree together! I'm also planning on making some Bible dolls similar to the alljoinin blog website. AND I just got notice this morning that Godly play vol. 1 just arrived at my library yesterday via ILL!

    I'm really excited to hear your ideas. Would love to collaborate!

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  3. JoyfulmamaMay 27, 2011 at 7:26 AM

    Lovely story cards! I bought my copy of Young children and Worship only a few months ago and it is already looking quite tattered from all the use - what a great resource! We made creation bean bags with similar pictures and used it while singing a song about Creation. You can see what we did at http://joyfulmamasplace.blogspot.com/2010/10/creation-bean-bags.html

    and some more ideas at

    http://joyfulmamasplace.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-we-use-our-creation-bean-bags.html.

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  4. TiciaMay 27, 2011 at 8:02 AM

    I don't use it, but I'm really intrigued by it. Have you see these posts by Our Country Road: http://ourcountryroad.blogspot.com/2010/09/adam-and-eve-story-telling-box.html

    I love the idea of story telling boxes for Bible stories.

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  5. Kim B.May 27, 2011 at 10:35 AM

    I hope you post regularly about Bear's Godly play. I'd love to get some ideas to incorporate into our home.

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  6. Counting CoconutsMay 31, 2011 at 6:29 AM

    These are great! We have a separate time (outside of school) for bible studies and I think these will be a big hit - thanks for sharing!

    I'm featuring this on my CC Facebook page. :)

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  7. Lisa @ Our Country RoadMay 31, 2011 at 9:39 PM

    We use a DIY form of Godly Play in our classroom. I have made little sets for Adam and Eve, the Tower of Babel and Isaac and Rebekah. I'll be honest that I havent read the Godly Play book, I just based my things on examples around the web. These cards are so cute!

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