This is Creation Day 1 of a vintage Creation Circles felt board set.
The set is intended to be used over several weeks of Bible Class lessons. Unfortunately I don't have the lessons that go with them, although I'm not even sure if they originally came with lessons. Felt pieces are glued into position on the felt circles (although there are no pieces which are glued onto Day 1). They are displayed for the class to see on a felt board.
The set comes with a set of numbers to match with the creation circles. I have a feeling that the numbers are not intended to be glued down like the other pieces because there is no outline indicating where to attach them like there is for everything else.
I'd say after the series of lessons are complete and the sets have been all put together, that they can be continued to be used and the activity can be matching the correct number to each circle from memory. Revision activities are very important to children's learning.
On Creation Day 1, God created light and separated light from darkness.
Notice that the sun does not appear until day 4... but a space for it to fill has been created.
I believe this set is a vintage version of these Creation Circles by Betty Lukens. I have written to them and received permission to share them with you.
You can get a cartoon type version, Beginner Bible Creation from Little Folk Visuals as well.
Once published, I will link the other Creation Circle posts below (and try to include different information in each post):
Vintage Felts - Creation Day 2
Vintage Felts - Creation Day 3
Vintage Felts - Creation Day 4
Vintage Felts - Creation Day 5
Vintage Felts - Creation Day 6
Vintage Felts - Creation Day 7
Sabbath School Productions - Creation Circles Instruction Sheet
The information sheet suggests singing "This is my Father's World" as part of the lessons. I'm pretty sure this song forms the backbone of the music score used in the hopeful scenes of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy movies directed by Peter Jackson. Let me know if you can recognise it next time you watch!
black curly shoelaces - I bought this (not an affiliate link)
wadding
one large decorative button for the dial centre
14 smaller decorative buttons for the dial numbers
10cm of buttonhole elastic
2 small buttons to fit the elastic
kam snap and tool and piercing rod (or darning needle etc)
hot glue and glue gun
scissors!
Firstly, cut out the pattern pieces. Cut out the back of the cradle (the larger cradle piece) from black hard felt and sew it onto your page (use the full phone pattern piece to position it where required).
Cut out two handset pieces and two layers of the slightly smaller wadding. Lay the wadding in between the two handset pieces and sew them together tucking in one end of a curly shoelace at the top left corner of the handset as you go.
Sew the smaller cradle piece to the top of your full phone piece leaving the bottom edge unsewn. Then sew the full phone piece onto your page along the top edge between the two pointy cradle pieces. Leave the two pointy cradle pieces as flaps to be used to house the handset. Sew from the bottom outside edge of one flap to around to the bottom outside edge of the other flap, tucking in the other end of your curly shoelace at the bottom right corner of your phone.
Use the full phone pattern piece to line up where to insert the piercing rod. Use the piercing rod to prepare a hole for your kam snap. Insert one half (male or female) of your kam snap.
Cut out one side of your dial from the white hard felt and sew your large decorative button to the middle. Use the piercing rod to prepare a hole for your kam snap in the middle of a piece of white hard felt which is slightly larger than the dial. Insert the opposite half (male or female) of your kam snap. Add a little hot glue to the smooth back of the kam snap and glue it to the center of the white felt at the back of the button. Sew down the dial and trim off the excess. Sew down your smaller decorative buttons around the edge of the dial as buttons. I followed a North, South, East, West, etc pattern to try to keep the spacing even.
Lastly, sew a small button to the phone base behind the dial south-east of the kam snap, and another to the back of the dial north east of the kam snap. Button each end of the buttonhole elastic to opposite buttons and you are finished! The dial should spring back when you turn and release the dial.
Tahlia says Romans 10:13 and explains how to play with the retro phone quiet book page - call on the name of the LORD and be saved!
Difficulty Level = Easy
The most difficult part is lining the large button up on the dial with the kam snap underneath.
Tahlia shows off the retro phone quiet book page
Key Learning Areas and Skills
Romans 10 - we can call on God anytime through prayer
Imaginative play - making pretend phone calls is always a fun thing to do for a child
Fine Motor Skills - all quiet books encourage fine motor skill development
Hand-eye Co-ordination - all quiet books encourage hand-eye co-ordination
The retro phone dial returns to the start like a real retro phone!
God doesn't have favourites, and He will save those who call on Him.
Paul asks a series of questions: How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent?
We have been given the privilege of telling people the Good News. If people understand the Good News, they will have faith to call on the name of the LORD.
