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Sun, Moon, and Stars Hands-On Activities

March 17, 2015 by Heather Greutman Leave a Comment

We are continuing our Exploring Creation with Hands-On Learning for Kids series today with a look at the sun moon and stars. I have come up with a couple sun, moon, and stars hands-on activities that kids of any age will love to explore.

Sun, moon, and stars hands-on activity ideas, party of the Exploring Creation series. ChristianMontessoriNetwork.com

Today’s Bible Verse:

14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so.16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day. – Genesis 1:14-19, NIV 

Sun, Moon and Stars Sensory Tray

sun, moon, and stars sensory tray

I made a mini version of this sensory tray for my daughter. I used a small bin that we had around the house and used cotton balls for the base to represent the clouds.

For the Sun, I used felt and cut it out using scissors. For older children, you could have them do this part themselves.

For the Moon, I used tin foil to make a small ball shape.

For the stars I also used felt ones that I had left over from our Star Shape tot school week we did last year.

You could also use these glow in the dark stars and then use some to hang on the ceiling in a dark room and watch them glow.

Daytime vs. Nighttime

daytime and nighttime printable activity

For this activity, I made a simple printable with columns for night and day. I used the felt sun, stars, and tin foil circles to represent the moon so that Ellie could choose which column to put each in. We are also learning sign language, so we used the signs for day and sun as she placed items into each column (since those are the ones we have learned so far).

There are 3 pages in this printable, the first page has both the words and pictures in each appropriate column. This would be ideal for younger children so then place the appropriate item into each column matching the pictures.

>> Download the Daytime and Nighttime Printable HERE <<

The next page has just the words at the top. And the third page has just the pictures for matching the words to.

You can also check out these daytime and nighttime cards from Montessori services.

Also here are some Moon cards from Montessori Mom that would be a great addition to this unit. A Moment In Our World also has this fun Moon Phases activity with Oreos and cards to go with it.

For more Bible themed activity ideas, check out our hands-on Bible activities board on Pinterest.

 

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An 8 day series on exploring creation through hands-on learning for kids. ChristianMontessoriNetwork.com

Filed Under: Bible Lessons, Creation Tagged With: bible lessons, bible school, bible stories, Creation Series, Sensorial, Sunday school

About Heather Greutman

Heather Greutman is a Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant turned therapy/homeschool mom blogger. She also blogs at GrowingHandsOnKids.com where she encourages independence, one activity at a time. GHOK includes activities for child development, Occupational Therapy tips, special needs information, parenting helps, Montessori inspired and homeschool activities for toddlers and preschoolers.

Heather has two children, ages 1 and 4 and has been married 10 years to her husband David.

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