Watch: Day One: Check out the story of “Let there be light’ creation from Genesis . Genesis Chapter 1, verses 1 to 5 Welcome to Day One! Choose from any of the 1In the beginning, when created below (or enjoy watching the universe,2 the earth was formless We’re so pleased you could join us them all!). Clicking the link and desolate. on our Wildlife Wanderers journey will open our YouTube this week. We have lots of fun and playlist for today. The raging ocean that covered everything games planned for today. was engulfed in total darkness, and the Story from Spirit of God was moving over the water. Our theme this week is God’s world and each day we Saddleback Kids 3Then God commanded, “Let there be will be hearing about a different thing that God created, 4 Popsicle Stick Theatre from light” — and light appeared. God was as we follow the bible story from Genesis, chapter one. What’s in the Bible: pleased with what he saw. https://youtube.com/ Then he separated the light from the In today’s part of the story we discover that after God 5 created the universe and planets, he made light appear, playlist?list=PLyWuejC4eiGw darkness, and he named the light “Day” ka-vdAjJF7pw2Bq3xPxO5 and the darkness “Night”. Evening so today we are thinking about light (in lots of different passed and morning came — that was ways). the first day. Good News Bible © American Bible Society 1992. Used Without light, nothing could live - so if God had not Memory Verse: with permission created light then we would have no wildlife to discover in our holiday club. So let’s give thanks for that today! See if you can memorise this verse from today’s story. ‘Then God commanded, “Let Read: Listen: there be light” — and light appeared’ If you would like a storybook version of the We have some wonderful tunes for you on our Genesis story to read to yourself or aloud, then check out this one from lamb songs. YouTube & Spotify playlists which celebrate God’s as Genesis 1 v3. creator and creation. https://www.lambsongs.co.nz/ Let All Creation Sing, Resound Worship Bible%20Story%20Books/ Creation%20From%20Genesis%201%20Big%20 Creator God, Nick & Becky Drake

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Let’s go on a scavenger hunt to identify light sources that all are around us. What you need:

This scavenger sheet to record your findings (or use a piece of blank paper) and something to write and draw with

Use the back of this page if you run out of space! What to do:

Search inside and outside for different types of light. Draw or write down what you discover. Think about:

Think about the differences among the light sources—are some bright and some dim? Are they white or yellow? Are some part of nature?

What is the type of light you found for? What is its purpose?

This activity is wet weather friendly. If it’s wet just stick to seeking indoors! Can you imagine what it would be like if we had no light at all? I think it GameTime! would be pretty tricky to do anything. Our games today let us have lots of fun with light and darkness.

Play: Flashlight Hide & Seek

What you need: Play: Blind Mans Bluff

A torch (or phone / device which can act as a torch) A blindfold or something to use for each person hiding. as one

Someone to play with. Someone to play with.

What to do: What to do: 1) Choose someone to be ‘it’. Unlike Flashlight Hide and Seek, this game is normally 2) Agree any boundaries or no-go played in one large room, or a safe outdoor space. areas for the game (for instance, no going in certain rooms or 1) Make sure that the room is safe to play in and that there is outside) nothing that could be knocked over or any items that may hurt you if you bump into the 3) Decide on how long everyone has to hide and also how often they have to ‘flash’ their torch, and how 2) Blindfold the seeker and spin them around five times slowly. many flashes they should make. Have them count to ten. Meanwhile everyone should find a place in the room to hide. Once hidden they must not move from their 4) Once hidden, and the ‘seeker’ starts looking, hiding place. everyone must stay quiet but they should count to the number agreed. Then they turn their torch on 3) The seeker searches around with their hands and off for the number of flashes they decided on at trying to find others.. The first person ‘tagged’ the start. becomes the seeker and the game starts again.

This is repeated until the seeker finds everyone or the seeker gives up! Activity: Make a Sun Dial Shadow Clock Activity: Make Your Own Play-dough & Get Creative You can change this activity depending on what materials you have, so feel free let your imagination go wild! This recipe makes one coloured ball of play-dough. What you need: Increase the quantities to make more. Make sure you store your play-dough in a sealable bag or container to make A stick, 12 markers that you can write on (i.e. stones, bits of card or sure it stays soft. wood), a watch or something else to tell the time. What you need: What to do: 8 tbsp plain flour, 2 tbsp table salt, 60ml warm Start this activity ‘on the hour’ (for instance at one o’clock water, food colouring (just a few drops, but use / three o’clock / seven o’clock etc.) more for a deeper colour), 1 tbsp vegetable oil

Find a sunny spot outside. Push your stick, upright, into What to do: the ground (or use some stones or objects to prop the stick upright if you are on concrete or tarmac). Mix up the flour and salt in a large bowl. In another bowl mix together the water, a little bit of food Write the numbers 1 to 12 on the markers. colouring and the oil.

Look at where the shadow from the stick falls on the ground and Pour the coloured water & oil into the flour mix and use a place the marker which matches the time (so the ‘1’ marker if it was spoon to mix it together. one o’clock) so that the shadow lands on it. Repeat the process each hour until you have created your shadow clock. Put some flour on a clean surface and tip out the dough. Knead it together to make your play dough. Think about: Now use your dough to create something else! Before God started creating, there was no such thing as time! No minutes, hours, days, months or even years. It must have made it very Think about: tricky to know what time to go to bed or get up for school! God made us to be creative and imaginative beings, but Is it wet?: we still need to start with ‘something’ to enable us to create other things. However God was able to create Why not make your shadow clock indoors, ready to take it outdoors everything from nothing! How amazing is that?! when it turns sunny again? Use a piece of corrugated cardboard and This activity is wet weather friendly. a pencil. Stick the pencil into the cardboard and decorate your clock. When the sun returns, take it outside and mark the hours onto it.