The Second and Third Days

Yesterday was Day Two of the Creation and to celebrate the creation of the sky we went over to Grandma Nancy's. 

Her house ended up being the perfect location to enjoy the sky because Kate spotted the most interesting rainbow from Grandma's backyard.

We read Genesis 1:6-8 and then we read Sector 7 by David Wiesner.

It is a story about a boy who befriends a cloud and gets taken to Sector 7, the place where the clouds in that area receive their assignments. He decides to liven up specifications for their shapes and the outcome is a wonder for the whole city.

 

Next we made our own cloud art. I was particularly impressed with Mason. He did his all by himself (and used half the glue bottle) to make a "cheetah that is running."

For dessert that evening Adam had concocted this representation of water and clouds. Unfortunately, the store didn't have any blue jell-o so we went with green and a little extra imagination.

Today we invited some friends over for Day Three.  We read Genesis 1:9-13 and we wanted to replicate the division of water and dry land so we decided to cook up some worlds.

  With our ingredients assembled we set to work.

We added a little green for the land and a little blue for the water, then everyone pressed the two together and enjoyed their creation.

 

Caution: If you are going to attempt to create a world

Do NOT burn yourself with the pan trying to get every last bit of marshmallow out. This will result in a painful reminder of the day's activities.

Do NOT allow your three-year-old to pull the chair out from under your five-year-old who is trying to add blue food coloring. This will result in the five-year-old falling and plunging his hand into the bowl of very hot marshmallow goo and the three-year-old crying hysterically at your rash reaction.

Do NOT get so worn out by the whole experience that you think your three-year-old is taking a nap and decided to take one yourself only to wake up and find that he wasn't really asleep but instead had pooped in his diaper, taken it off, then proceed to come down the stairs on his bare bum, thus wiping himself on each step of his descent.