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DANIKA COOLEY
THINKING KIDS PRESS
Seven Days of Creation Craft
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Seven Days of Creation Craft
When my boys were in first and second grade, we studied the seven days of Creation from the first chapter of
Genesis. I wanted to help them remember the days of Creation in a fun way, so I came up with this craft. Their
original paintings have been hanging on the wall in our library for years.
In recreating the craft for you, I added a Seven Days of Creation label set for you, so you will have easy to apply
labels rather than having to write on each day or use a label maker like we did. You’ll find that sheet at the very
back of this printable.
Creating can help children process and retain information. I’m a big fan of doing crafts with kids that are art proj-
ects rather than process art. This project will take several sessions and a little assistance, but it will also be some-
thing you can hang on your walls or that adds to retention and comprehension.
Your children will learn new skills and techniques and start to feel confident working with real art tools. As a
bonus, these art projects / crafts can be used with a variety of ages. Your young children can do simple work while
your teens can get as elaborate as they’d like.
Tips for Art Projects with Kids
Doing art projects with kids can be a challenge. For that reason, many parents forgo this valuable
time altogether. As an art major and a parent who has done frequent art projects with my four
children, I have a few suggestions for you.
• Cover your space. Use painting drop cloths and plastic to keep your furniture and
flooring protected.
• Cover your kids. Grab a couple of your old T-shirts and throw them over your kids,
buy them painting aprons, or designate clothes specifically for crafting.
• Do the prep work in advance. Do as much prep work for a project as you can before
you get the kids involved. Not everything on the page needs to be their work. It’s OK
to help.
• Schedule several short session for one project. Children need several days to be able to
create larger projects. Art is time-consuming and requires energy.
• Encourage your kids. Children are likely to be frustrated by the disconnect in the
artwork they envision and the art they actually create. Remind your kids that they
improve every time they create, and tell them how much you love their work (even if
you don’t know what it is!). Also, stick figures are fabulous.
Seven Days of Creation Craft
Instructions
Supplies Needed to Make Your Seven Days of Creation Craft
• Foam Sheet or Poster Board
• Paint
• Paintbrushes
• Permanent Marker
• T-Square
• Cardstock
• Scissors
• Glue Stick
1) Divide Your Foam Sheet into Seven Equal Strips
If you use the foam sheets I suggest above, you’ll want to make a mark on each side of your foam vertically every
2 3/4 inches. The T-Square will help you keep your measurements straight. This is something older students
should do themselves. For younger kids, you’ll want to prep the painting surface before getting them involved.
The seven strips are actually going to cover the time before the creation of the earth, and days 1-6. You can
explain God rested on the seventh day, but that’s pretty hard to convey in art.
Seven Days of Creation Craft
Instructions
2) Make Dividing Lines for the 7 Days of Creation
Using the T-square and a black permanent marker, locate your pencil marks and draw lines across the page every
2 3/4 inches. These strips will be your days.
3) Paint the Time Before the World Began
We don’t actually know what the universe was like before God created it. We just know that God existed. We
don’t want to paint God, and we know that He created light on the first day, so have your child paint the first strip
on the page black.
Seven Days of Creation Craft
Instructions
4) Paint Day 1 of Creation
God creates light, along with day and night, the first day of Creation. Have your child paint the strip bright yellow.
5) Paint Day 2 of Creation
The second day of Creation, God separates the waters into the seas and the sky (or heavens). Have your child
paint his own interpretation of the sky and the oceans. This can look however she envisions it. It’s fine if your
child leaves lots of white space.
If your child wants a background for each strip, now would be a good time to paint the rest of the strips blue like
the sky to give the background color time to dry before going over it. Acrylics can be painted in layers (which is
awesome), but they need to dry in between.
If your child hasn’t taken a break from painting yet, now would be a great time to do so!
Seven Days of Creation Craft
Instructions
6) Paint Day 3 of Creation
On the third day of Creation, God gathered the oceans and created dry land. He made all of the plants, along with
fruits and vegetables. Have your child paint his artistic interpretation of day three.
Again, if your child wants a background for the remaining pictures, you’ll want to be sure it’s painted and has
dried before moving forward. My boys were young when we did this project, and we just painted their images
directly onto the white background. Either way looks great.
Seven Days of Creation Craft
Instructions
7) Paint Day 4 of Creation
On the fourth day of Creation, God created the sun, moon, and stars--all of the lights in the sky. Your child can
be as detailed or as simple in her depiction as she likes. If she wants to paint all of the planets in order, pull out an
astronomy book or a picture on a website for her.
8) Paint Day 5 of Creation
On the fifth day of creation, God created the sea creatures and all of the winged birds. I wanted a background for
my artwork, so I took the time to paint an ocean on Day 5 and dry land on Day 6, then allowed both to dry. This
is not necessary--kids can just paint their figures directly onto the foam sheet if they’d like.
Seven Days of Creation Craft
Instructions
For Day 6, have your child paint sea creatures and flying animals. Again, if she wants to paint more accurate
animals, it’s helpful to pull out a few picture books. Remind her that her paintings don’t need to look like the
pictures. This is art, and many times art doesn’t look realistic on purpose. Whatever your child produces to depict
sea creatures and flying animals is fabulous.
9) Paint Day 6 of Creation
On the sixth day of Creation, God created all of the beasts of the earth, and man and woman in His own image.
Your child can use pictures for reference here as well, or just paint his favorite animals.
For the people, talk about how God just created one man and one woman on Day 6--Adam and Eve. Adam
and Eve didn’t wear clothing until after they sinned against God. Hiding them behind animals or bushes may be
cliché, but it’s actually a pretty good solution to the clothing issue.
Seven Days of Creation Craft
Instructions
10) Cut Out Your 7 Days of Creation Printable Labels
Print your labels and cut around each one.
11) Glue Your 7 Days of Creation Printable Labels to Your Craft
Arrange your labels on the craft anywhere they fit best and glue them down. This is an activity even very young
children can do.
7 Days of Creation Craft
Day Three
These printable banners are for use with God created
the 7 Days of Creation Craft. dry land
You can find the whole post, with instructions and video, and the seas.
here: https://wp.me/p4hCiL-49P God
The banners are free to Thinking Kids subscribers! created plants
Be sure to read the account of creation with your kids with fruits
in the Bible. You’ll find it in Genesis chapter 1. and
vegetables.
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Before the
World Began Day Four
There was God. God created the sun,
God created
moon, and stars.
the heavens
and the earth.
Day Five
Day One
God created every
God created the light. living creature
He made in the waters,
day and night. and every winged bird.
Day Six
Day Two God created the
God created the waters beasts of the earth.
on earth He created
and the sky above. man and woman
in His own image.
Puzzle-based Bible Study
for 8-12 year olds
GOD’S WORD AND SOUND DOCTRINE MATTER FOR OUR KIDS.
We want our children to be able to process, understand, apply, and explain the biblical truths God has laid out
in his Word to us.
Not only that, we want our kids to become Bible investigators. We want them to be people of the Book who
seek out and learn Scripture, so their minds are renewed and they are transformed, able to discern God’s will.
Good Bible Investigators:
* Observe: They pay attention to what they’re reading.
* Interpret: They figure out what the Bible means in that section.
* Apply: They decide how the truth of God’s Word impacts their life today.
There are a great many truths in life to be found—some interesting, some boring, and some that really
matter. You can be the kind of investigator who spends time puzzling out important truth so that you can
know all the knowable knowledge that God has given us. That’s right. God, the Creator of the Universe,
gave you a great big letter from him to explore and study so that you can discover the truths that really
matter to your life!” - Bible Investigators: Creation, (The Good Book Company, 2023), page 7
Bible Investigators is a joint project from Danika Cooley and The Good Book Company. The
Bible study is 272-pages of learning, puzzles, and fun activities designed to help your kids
become amazing independent Bible investigators–observing, interpreting, and applying
God’s Word as they learn what the Bible teaches on a particular subject.
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Elementary-aged kids need hands-on middle grade resources that engage them and equip them to process important truths.
Bible Investigators is the perfect resource to teach your kids about an important biblical doctrine,
while helping them apply God’s Word to their lives today.
“DO NOT BE CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD,
BUT BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWAL OF YOUR MIND,
THAT BY TESTING YOU MAY DISCERN WHAT IS THE WILL OF GOD,
WHAT IS GOOD AND ACCEPTABLE AND PERFECT.”
– ROMANS 12:2, ESV
BIBLE PUZZLES FOR KIDS
Middle grade kids, aged 8-12, love puzzles. After all, their brains are just built for figuring things
out and memorizing facts. Puzzles are a wonderful way to help kids develop logic skills and retain
important information. And, the book is written in a fun, conversational tone your children are
sure to love!
What types of puzzles and activities will you find in Bible Investigators?
Word Searches Word Sudoku
Crosswords Mazes
Rebus Puzzles How-to-Draw Pages
Dot-to-Dots Matching Pairs
Logic Puzzles Word Scrambles
Missing Letter Puzzles Journal Pages
Cryptograms
Every child is sure to find activities they’ll love!
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CREATION
Bible Investigators: Creation is an activity book bursting with brain-teasing puzzles,
which helps kids investigate the Bible for themselves.
“The Bible author wants to remind you that nothing just magically appears. Everything has a creator.
For instance, have you ever been walking along, picking up acorns and leaves when—BOOM—a house
just appears right in front of you? First of all, you’d probably be really glad you didn’t get squished by
the mysteriously appearing house. But next, you’d wonder where that house came from. Who made it?
How did it get there?
We all know that houses don’t appear out of nowhere. Houses are planned, designed, and built. In fact,
building a house takes a really long time. Right?”
Bible Investigators: Creation, (The Good Book Company, 2023), page 18
With 90 brain-teasing puzzles, 40 Bible passages, and 30 concepts regarding God’s creation, this 272-page lesson,
puzzle, and activity book gives kids aged 8-12 skills to investigate the Bible for themselves--just like a real investiga-
tor! As kids apply logic and solve challenging puzzles, they will dive deeply into Scripture and examine the Bible’s
account of creation, picking up lots of skills for reading and interpreting the Bible. Your kids will also find lots of
journaling boxes which allow them to reflect on, interpret, and apply what they have learned about God’s Word.
Creation is perfect as a six-week unit study for your homeschool, and it’s a great tool for churches to use with kids.
It’s fun for road trips and rainy days too!
BIBLE INVESTIGATORS: CREATION CONTAINS SIX SECTIONS:
Introduction: You Are a Bible Investigator!
Section One: God Created Everything in the Beginning Section Four: Our Creator God
God Created All Things Out of Nothing God Is Eternal Psalm 90:2
Genesis 1:1-2a; Jeremiah 4:23 God Is All-Powerful Psalm 33:8-9
Every House Has a Builder Hebrews 3:4 God Is Uncreated Psalm 102:25-27; Revelation 1:8
God Created the World for His Creatures Isaiah 45:18 God the Father Created Genesis 1:26a; Jeremiah 32:17
It Was All Good Genesis 1:31a; 1 Timothy 4:4 God the Son Created John 1:1-3
God’s Works are Wondrous Psalm 145:1-13 God the Holy Spirit Created Psalm 104:24, 30; Genesis 1:2
Section Two: The Story of Creation Section Five: God’s Good Creation Gifts
Let There Be Light! (Day 1) Genesis 1:3-5; 2 Corinthians 4:6 Every Good Gift Is from God James 1:17; John 3:27b
The Sky Above (Day 2) Genesis 1:6-8; Jeremiah 10:12 God Blesses Us Genesis 1:28-29
Soil and Potatoes (Day 3) Genesis 1:9-13; Psalm 104:14 God Gives Us the Sabbath Genesis 2:1-13; Exodus 20:8-20a, 11
Time for the Universe (Day 4) Genesis 1:14-19; Psalm 104:19-23 God Gives Us Work
Creatures That Swim and Fly (Day 5) Genesis 2:15; Proverbs 28:19; Colossians 3:23-24
Genesis 1:20-23; Psalm 104:16-17, 24-25 God Gives Us Marriage Genesis 2:18-24
Beasts of the Earth and People (Day 6) Genesis 1:24-27
Section Six: God’s Great Salvation Plan
Section Three: God Made Me To Disobey God Is to Sin Genesis 2:16-17; John 14:15
God Gave Me Life Job 33:4 Adam and Eve Sinned--And So Have I
God Formed Me Wonderfully Psalm 139:13-16 Genesis 3:1-7; Romans 3:23
God Gives Everyone Life and Breath Acts 17:24-28 Jesus Paid for Our Sin Ephesians 2:4-9
God Created Me for His Glory Isaiah 43:6b-7 Believe in Jesus and Confess Belief Romans 10:9-10
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