Journey to Bethlehem – week 1 – God made everything good

Journey To Bethlehem is a series of Bible Stories that take us from the very beginning of the Bible up to the first Christmas. There are six stories in the series with ideas for visual aids and crafts. We have used these stories several times in the half term leading up to Christmas in our Toddler Group.

The stories are

• Creation Genesis 1
• The Fall Genesis 3
• Noah Genesis 6 & 7
• Abraham Genesis 15
• Angel Gabriel visiting Mary Luke 1:26-38
• The birth of Jesus Luke 2:1-7
• Visit of the Shepherds Luke 2:8-20

We start with creation and everything being made good. Next week the fall and things no longer being good and then onwards to Jesus being born. God’s Saviour sent for us.

The Creation story is going to be told using an idea that I found here – It Happens in a Blink.

Creation paper plates

Here’s some of the paper plates in close up. I had a lot of fun making them. You need sturdy paper plates! I decided not to have a blank plate for day seven. I did see an idea that included lots of zzzz for resting but God didn’t go to sleep, he just stopped making because everything was complete and perfect. He doesn’t need to rest in the way that we do. He never slumbers or sleeps 🙂

Week 1 story

We are going on a journey – all the way to Bethlehem!

Let’s begin. Everything was very quiet and then God began to make things form nothing! He just spoke and things began to happen..

As I tell the story we will count the days together and name what we can see on the plates. After each day we will say ‘it was all very good’ and do a thumbs up. This will be our action for this weeks story.

We have started our journey to Bethlehem!

How to tell the series over 6 weeks

You can find all the stories in this series here on the blog with a different paper plate for each story. (You will see that the snake is not a paper plate – but if you don’t have a pre-cut spiral a paper plate would be fine. Just decorate and then cut into a spiral shape) The links to each story are with each picture.

As you go through the weeks display the paper plates until in week 6 they are all displayed 🙂

 

Everything you need to make the paper plates in the story series

• Sturdy paper plates
• Glue
• Tissue paper
• Pipe cleaners
• Beads
• Crepe paper
• Cardboard tubes
• Face shapes
• Yarn
• Cotton wool
• Googly eyes

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