Our new history curriculum is turning out to be a family favorite! The Mystery of History (MOH) is written by a homeschool mom in a storylike tone. Two things I love about it so far…There are fun reinforcement activities listed for younger, middle, and older students. That makes this curriculum very versatile. And it’s your “typical” world history interlaced with Biblical history, which makes the Bible come alive! (For example, did you know that Jesus lived just after Cleopatra? I didn’t! That is SO interesting to me! I never put those two together.) I’m hoping this curriculum will help our kiddos to grow up with a better “big picture” view of history, instead of a disjointed “secular vs. Christian” view.

Anywho…

We’re having a lot of fun with the reinforcement activities so far, so I thought I’d share some of our adventures this year.

The second lesson of the year was about Adam and Eve – their creation, their life in the garden, their work there, and their choice to sin. When we were done reading the text, we got out the PlayDoh. Each child “created” a creature that they’d never seen before, and then they had to name it an original name (just like Adam named the animals in the Garden of Eden).

Gracie with her creature, a “renaiscu”…

Caleb’s “bone-headed guy”…

Jaden and Ava also made some creatures, but apparently I only took videos of them, and I’m currently too lazy to upload them. You can imagine – Ava made a “guy” and Jaden made a “wom.”

As an aside, part of the reason the kids were SO excited about this activity is that they know mommy is not a fan of PlayDoh. (So much potential for messiness!) So we broke out the cookie sheets and kept a little more of the mess contained. Fun was had by all. 🙂