When Dinosaurs Roamed....Our Living Room!

We've been having a lot of fun with our study of creation. We found a great book called "Dinosaurs by Design", which is written for children, but explains how the evidence supports creationism, not evolutionism. Here are some of the activities we've done:

• The kids had their own dinosaur dig, except we used rice instead of dirt, and lego guy pieces for bones, which they then assembled.
• They saw the powerful effect of water on the rice, illustrating how a catastrophic flood could have created geological phenomena, such as the Grand Canyon.
• I placed "dinosaur bones" (K'nex pieces) in a bag and shook it up, and asked if they thought it had formed into a dinosaur, showing how unlikely it is that a complex creation could happen by chance.
• The kids designed and built their own dinosaurs out of K'nex peices, and we talked about how God had created us in His image, including a desire to be creative.
• We learned about several kinds of dinosaurs, including Iguanadon.  On the globe, we located some of the places in which their fossils were discovered, and we used tape measures outside to show how long and tall they were.

Brennan also got to try his hand at hat design, for crazy hat day at Kindergarten.