Week 1-What's in the Bible

I am absolutely CRAZY about the What's in the Bible series created by Phil Vischer, but I couldn't find many homeschooling resources using them.

So, I decided to pair my love of interactive notebooks (I used standard composition notebooks) with the videos and make my own.  It is a work in progress, but I'm going to try and post pictures of what I'm doing each week in the hopes that someone else may find it helpful.  Almost none of the creative ideas are my own-just hours of scouring the internet for cute ideas.  My goal is to link back to the original site of any ideas I borrowed, but I didn't know I was going to post these when I started so I didn't save all the websites I used.  So, I'll do my best!

I did purchase the What's in the Bible coloring book, but I think you can get all the coloring pages for free on their website.

The first week we colored the What's in the Bible coloring page.  On my book, I reduced it and put it on the first page.  On the boys book, I made this the cover.  

1. We watched Volume 1, episode 1

2. Colored the cover page.

3. Copy work in the little Bible about what the Bible is. (see pictures)  Here is a link to how I made the small book.

I did all the cutting and folding for my boys because they are 1st grade (and not great with fine motor skills yet) but an older child could do all this part himself.  I also included one of our Bible doctrine verses (What is the theme of the Bible)

I ended up changing the first page a little for the boys' books because I wanted that coloring page to be on the cover.  Here is a picture of my cover, and Luke's cover (Levi's isn't finished yet).  I put packing tape on top to protect it and make it shiny.

 I also made the Bible book bigger for their books so that they could have a little more room to write in them.  Here is a sample of the pages.