New Testament Activity Pack – Review

Homeschool In The Woods  offers History Timelines and History-based Activity Studies as a companion for any History curriculum.  Our homeschool received The New Testament Activity Pack, one of the “Hands-on History Activity Packs”, which also include “The Old Testament” and “Artists”.  This is suggested for Grades 3-8, but we completed it as a family – my 5 year old and 10 year old, with much cutting, pasting, and assembly help from Mom.

There are 15 cut and paste activities in this pack, plus 2 larger products, so 17 activities in all.  From a teaching point of view, having things like parables in a mini-book to read over, and the side-by-side collection of prophecies in the Old Testament and their fulfillments in the New Testament is just terrific.  The entire set of 15 activities assembles and folds all up into a single file folder, very ingenious.  This is considered a “lap book” and was my first foray into lap books.  There was a bit of a learning curve on my part, as far as putting the whole thing together, but now that I have the hang of it I’m sure the next lap book will be easier.  I look forward to bringing this out again and reading over it with my children in the future as we continue to do bible readings.  If I had had more than 6 weeks to review this, I would have chosen to complete one per week with my children, as I found they became less than enthusiastic about all the cutting, pasting, and colouring.  One a week would allow more study and discussion on the topics and scriptures presented.  However, when it came time to do “The Armour of God” – my children were absolutely delighted.  They eagerly completed it in one sitting, and were excited to pin it up their creations on the wall.  Here they are…

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