Vintage Felt - Creation Circles Day 5

This is Creation Day 5 of a vintage Creation Circles felt board set.

These are meant to be used to tell the creation story over several weeks in a children's Bible class. The interactive nature of the story is achieved by gluing each piece in place. On creation circle 5, the pieces include:

• white bird
• whale
• 2 red fish
• 2 yellow fish

You can match the set of numbers to each creation circle studied to date as a revision activity, which helps with learning.

The spaces created on Day 2 have now been filled.

I let Tahlia glue the whale down on this circle, and didn't supervise well enough cause he ended up half in the sky. At least we can say he is breaching. One of the fish was missing from this circle as well, so I asked my mum to draw me a replacement. I bet you can't even tell which one it was. I'll tell you at the end of the post.

And then someone else gave me two circles from another set (I guess the other circles had been lost), but it "happened" to be Day 5 so now we have a correct circle featured at the top of the post as well as a breaching whale circle!

There also appears to be another red bird in the second version (see below).

New versions of this idea are available in small and large options of Creation Circles from Betty Lukens as well as this cartoon style Beginner Bible Creation set from Little Folk Visuals.

Once published, I will link to the other Creation Circle posts below:

• Vintage Felts - Creation Day 1 - includes a photo of the information sheet
• Vintage Felts - Creation Day 2
• Vintage Felts - Creation Day 3
• Vintage Felts - Creation Day 4
• Vintage Felts - Creation Day 6
• Vintage Felts - Creation Day 7

My mum made me a replacement version of the large red fish on the right on the version I didn't supervise properly. She used Korean hard felt and a Posca fabric marker. Mum's are awesome (at least mine is).

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Isaiah 40 - Grass Withers and Flowers Fall Quiet Book Page

In Isaiah chapter 40, God contrasts the faithfulness of His Word with that of all people.

 

Memory Verse: “All people are like grass,
and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field.
The grass withers and the flowers fall,
because the breath of the Lord blows on them.
Surely the people are grass.

The grass withers and the flowers fall,
but the word of our God endures forever.” Isaiah 40:6-8 (NIV).

 

Materials needed to create the Grass Withers and Flowers Fall quiet book page:

• A4 felt background sheet - I used white
• the free template from Jocelyn and Jason at The Quiet Book Blog
• felt scraps in gray, blue, orange, yellow, red and purple
• metal jean buttons
• green ribbon scraps
• sewing thread to best match the page

Cut out your flower pieces from coloured felt (one large and one small from each colour). Sew them onto the same colour felt and cut out again. Use your jeans button to measure the size buttonhole needed and make a buttonhole in the centre of each flower.

Cut five strips of ribbon for flower stems, melt the edges (How to Stop Ribbons Fraying). Sew them down onto your page, lining them up with where you want your flower heads to go, and ensuring the bottom ends will be covered by your planter box pocket.

Cut out your flower planter box from gray felt and sew it onto the same colour felt and cut out again. Sew it onto your page along the side and bottom edges to form a pocket.

Insert your jeans buttons at the top of each ribbon stem, adding extra felt behind for reinforcement. Button on your flower heads.

Finished! Now you can play with your page.

Difficulty Level = Easy, Difficulty level = No Sew

Jean button installation can be scary - but the following YouTube tutorial by OnlineFabricStore should help.

How to Attach a Jeans Button - OnlineFabricStore

Key Learning Areas and Skills

• Isaiah 40 - God's Word endures forever, unlike the faithfulness of people, who are like the grass and flowers that wither and fall so quickly and easily
• Buttoning - clasp and unclasp the hands as if they are "meeting together" or shaking hands greeting each other
• Pocket Play - young children love pulling things out and placing items and putting them back (not always lol) into pockets - the flower pieces can be stored in the planter box pocket
• Colour Matching - match the large and small flower petals together (or mis-match as desired)
• Fine Motor Skills - all quiet books encourage fine motor skill development
• Hand-eye Co-ordination - all quiet books encourage hand-eye co-ordination

Read the Chapter

Isaiah 40

Devotional

The only thing we can trust is God and His Word. Everything else withers and falls as quickly and easily as the grass and flowers. He only is faithful.

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Which colour flower is your favourite? Does it remind you of someone amongst your family or friends?