Bible Notebook - Any creative ideas??

[Charlotte]

Hello:)

I found some really great ideas for the 1st grade bible notebook posted by Dawn in the "MFW 1st- Share your Experiences" section. [ viewtopic.php?f=6&t=72#p4494 ]

I was just wondering if anyone else has any creative ideas for the bible notebook that they could share.

I really appreciate how informed and helpful you MFW ladies are. You all are definitely a blessing to me and I know to many others!

Thanks, Charlotte

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[mom2boys]

Hi! Not really an idea - more of a cute story. My 7yo son was illustrating the Tower of Babel story. He drew a tower and lots of stick figures around the tower with speech bubbles one said "Ohio" the rest had "?". He was combining what he was learning about Japan with his older brother in ECC with his Bible Notebook. Ohio means good morning in Japanese. So his drawings are not polished but he is certainly demonstrating understanding and I think that is the whole point.

I look forward to using some of the ideas others have posted. He did like using stickers for his Noah's Ark animals instead of having to draw them. So it will be nice to have some creative ideas when he feels like doing something different.

Blessings,
~from another Charlotte

[Tina]

some ideas might include (sorry if these are duplicates)

--using foil for King Nebuchadnezzar's image/statue
--stickers of animals, people, etc.
--My dd used a picture of my ds (when he was a baby sitting in a laundry basket) as her "moses" picture
--construction paper cut into shapes, etc. for different things
--cut outs from different magazines
--stencils of animals, angels, people, etc
--we used little pieces of paper from the three whole puncher (you know, the little white circles) for manna and quail.

One thing that we very much enjoyed after both children went thru MFW 1st grade (they are two years apart) was to look back and see what both of them did. That was fun. Some pictures were so similar, yet others were so different. This is a great keepsake! Thanks for posting.

[JoyfulDancer]

Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 11:27 am

I've come up with some ideas that solve two problems for us at once for the last 1/3 of MFW1. My dd has been getting quick and sloppy with her Bible Notebook pictures, and we have been wishing for more hands-on activities. I was thinking of ways to liven up Notebook time, and my dd said she wanted to do a puppet show. So I suggested she do the puppet show about her Bible story. I will take pictures with our digital camera and print them out on cardstock. She will then cut them out and paste them into her notebook. We can do this for anything we want to do hands-on with the Bible lesson. If she makes clay figures for the story, I will take pictures of those, and they will go into the notebook. I also liked someone's idea of paints, stickers, collages. These will make the notebook time more fun and interesting and fulfill her desire for hands-on projects. We are both excited about this idea.

I have another idea: Now that we have finished learning all the books of the Bible we are starting to make a Books of the Bible Lapbook. I expect this to take the rest of the year, a little at a time. I got the directions from Tobin's Lab, and will simplify for 1st grade level. We are already started on the Genesis booklet.

Well, I just wanted to share some of our new ideas. I hope this helps someone enjoy this great curriculum even more.

Laurie

[kellybell]

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:02 am

Since we're happily in the 21st century now, we can take advantage of that. Perhaps you can print pictures from the internet or use your copier (if you have one) to copy a neat picture and do some cutting and pasting.

I can even imagine your ds dressed up as King David (or Peter or Adam or ...) and you take a picture with the digital camera and print that picture out and put that in the notebook.

And, one thing my kids think is simply neat is to "copy" something sort of 3D. Yesterday it was a hair comb I think... So, if he makes a collage out of noodles, beans, ribbons, etc, he can make a flat (2D) color copy of it and put that in the notebook. Maybe he'd like to use the computer or scanner to make pictures one way or another...

[DS4home]

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:17 pm

I had ds who didn't really get into drawing much either, but he did enjoy using stickers! So we made sicker scenes, and sometimes we did some paper piecing type of scenes. I kept it pretty simple because he wasn't one to sit there forever working on a detailed picture.

Like for Jericho - I just cut several one inch (or so) squares. He glued about 5 in a stack on one side of the page and glued the others scattered across the rest of the page to look like they fell down.

Maybe ask him to just put one thing on the page to represent the story instead of recreating everything in his mind? Maybe this will give you some other ideas to work on for a change of pace!

Dawn

[lisa062797]

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:33 pm

I also purchased sheets of craft foam...you can also get peel-and-stick foam pre-cut foam shapes. Or, check out the scrapbooking section of a craft store...there can be many fun things for the finding that can work for the bible notebook.

[sarajoy]

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:48 pm

My dd actually likes to draw but sometimes gets off course in her drawings of the story. Abraham and Sarah has a swimming pool next to their tent and everyone was sitting on the roof.

We found these great animal stickers and used them for Noah's ark. She drew the outline of a boat and added as many animal stickers as the page would hold.

We've used glitter glue and glued down tissue paper.

The page she did most recently was the crossing of the Red Sea. She made a mistake at the very beginning and drew a line straight across the page for the sea instead of a path through it. So she drew a stick figure of pharaoh in the sea and then used our stickers of sea animals and had them all attacking him.

My suggestion is to relax on the drawing aspect and provide lots of cut-paste, stickers, construction paper, magazines and the like. The kiddos are so imaginative they'll take they stories in directions you never thought of...and I guess that's one of the main points of the exercise, to imagine and think on the Bible story.

Blessings and Joy,
SJ

[Ariasarias]

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 11:22 am

Just to let you know that stick figures are okay for 1st. We did do the drawing lessons and they helped my children immensely, but sometimes my dd just settled for stick figures in her notebook ;) and other times she did try harder to draw more realistically :).

[Cyndi (AZ)]

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 11:40 am

I agree that the DWC lessons really helped my dd be ready for the notebook, but she still does some silly stuff, too.

That's one of the things that make it special.

[homemommy83]

I just thought I would share what I do with my little ones. I have 2 little boys doing first together, one is mine and one my friends little boy. My friends little boy loves to draw, but my little boy does not, so I decided to print off pages for my son to color from calvary chapel. I let him color, cut, and paste them into his notebook, and now he loves doing his notebook! He is only 5 so the drawing was a bit much for him, but the rest of the program is a perfect fit so far! Hope this helps someone.
Brenda