It Floods, Then Dries Up

Introduction:

For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper,

covering the ground and lifting the boat high above the earth.

Genesis 7:17

Snack:

These little snacks are made out of Jello and have a fun little plastic fish sitting on top.

Craft:

You can check out this website to see directions:

This particular dove was made out of a blown egg. I’d suggest blowing the egg beforehand. Another alternative for the egg is a small Styrofoam ball that you can find at craft stores.

Tell the Story:

You can find the story at Genesis 7-8:19. Focus on the part about the dove trying to find land.

Learn about Doves:

You can learn about White-Winged Doves here:

Memory Verse:

For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper,

covering the ground and lifting the boat high above the earth.

Genesis 7:17

Memory Verse Game Ideas:

·         Act it out.

o   Brainstorm motions with the students to match their memory verse. When children learn movements they are less likely to “lose it” from their memory.

·         Post It Cover Up

o   For this activity write the memory verse on the front board of the classroom. Practice reading it once together and then use post-it notes to cover up one of the words. Then, practice reading the verse again followed by covering up a second word with post-it notes. Continue this pattern until the entire verse is covered and the children are saying the verse from memory. This is an interesting spin on traditional drilling of a verse by repetition. You could also reverse the game beginning with some words covered and have children guess the missing words.

·         Find, Assemble, and Read

o   Put each word from the verse onto separate sheets of paper. Hide them around and have the kids find the words. Once the kids have found the words, congregate at a meeting spot and assemble the sentence and read them.

·         Use Your Fingers

o   Write the key words to the verse in pudding or finger paint to help with memorization.

·         Rainbow Words

o   Write the verse in the colors of the rainbow. Make sure each words is a DIFFERENT color!

Homemade Cheese Crackers

Need an cheap and super easy snack idea?

Take a look at these yummy cheese crackers!

Don't these look tasty? Well, I'll tell you right now, they taste INCREDIBLE! And they were beyond easy to make. You put all the ingredients in a food processor and let it do all the work. The hardest part is cutting them up either with a cookie cutter or into squares like I did. It's not even hard. It's just a bit time consuming.

So go make some! Treat yourself!

The recipe is here!

Loading the Ark

Introduction:

Read Genesis 6:19-22

            Bring a pair of every kind of animal—a male and a female—into the boat with you to keep them alive during the flood. Pairs of every kind of bird, and every kind of animal, and every kind of small animal that scurries along the ground, will come to you to be kept alive. And be sure to take on board enough food for your family and for all the animals. So Noah did everything exactly as God had commanded him.

Owl Cupcake Snack:

Supplies:

·         Chocolate or Vanilla Cake with Chocolate Frosting

·         One Oreo for the eyes

·         M & M’s for the beak and the eye balls.

Elephant Craft:

Supplies:

·         Three Paper Plates

·         Paint

·         Construction Paper

Memory Verse:

Genesis 7:9- They entered the boat in pairs, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah.

Memory Verse Game Ideas:

·         Act it out.

o   Brainstorm motions with the students to match their memory verse. When children learn movements they are less likely to “lose it” from their memory.

·         Post It Cover Up

o   For this activity write the memory verse on the front board of the classroom. Practice reading it once together and then use post-it notes to cover up one of the words. Then, practice reading the verse again followed by covering up a second word with post-it notes. Continue this pattern until the entire verse is covered and the children are saying the verse from memory. This is an interesting spin on traditional drilling of a verse by repetition. You could also reverse the game beginning with some words covered and have children guess the missing words.

·         Find, Assemble, and Read

o   Put each word from the verse onto separate sheets of paper. Hide them around and have the kids find the words. Once the kids have found the words, congregate at a meeting spot and assemble the sentence and read them.

Additional Game Ideas:

·         Memory- Matching animal pairs.

·         Create Animals out of Playdoh.

·         Create More Paper Plate Animals

We Can Make God Sad

Introduction:

Read Genesis 6:5-8

            The Lord observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth, and he saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil. So the Lord was sorry he had ever made them and put them on the earth. IT BROKE HIS HEART. And the Lord said, “I will wipe this human race I have created from the face of the earth. Yes, and I will destroy every living thing—all the people, the large animals, the small animals that scurry along the ground, and even the birds of the sky. I am sorry I ever made them.” BUT NOAH FOUND FAVOR WITH GOD.

Butterfly Snack:

Butterfly Baggy Supplies:

·         Baggies

·         Filling for the wings

·         Pipe cleaners

Take the baggy, fill it with the snack of your choosing. In the middle of the bag wrap a pipe cleaner around the bag and twist it at the top to create the antennae. Enjoy the cute treats:

 

The Story about Sin:

            Adam and Eve were the first humans ever created. They lived in a beautiful garden that had everything they could have ever wanted. They could eat as much of the fruit as possible. Their “work” consisted of taking care of the garden and all the animals… Adam even named all the animals! When God put Adam and Eve in the garden He told them that they could eat from any tree they wanted, except for ONE! It was called the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

            Everything started off really good at first. They stayed away from that ONE tree and enjoyed the fruit from all the other trees. Then one day, a snake came around and convinced Eve that the reason that God told them to not eat of that one tree, was because God didn’t want Eve to know everything like God does. This was a lie. God wasn’t holding anything back from Eve, he was trying to protect her. Eve was convinced that the snake was right. So one day she ate from the Tree that God told her not to, and Adam ate with her. Suddenly their eyes were opened and they knew that they had made a terrible mistake!

            God found out (because God knows everything) and forgave them. They still had to be punished for what they had done, but Adam and Eve’s sin would forever change their once perfect relationship with God. Since God was afraid that they might eat from a Tree that could make them live forever, he kicked them out of the garden and put angels at the entrance to the garden to protect the tree.

            A long ways down the road from this, there were a lot of humans on Earth. (Remember the earth started with two humans, not millions or billions of them). These people sinned all the time and they didn’t care what God thought about it. They made God so sad that he decided that he would wipe humans off the face of the earth. There was one man that God liked though. So God chose this one man named Noah to build a boat, called an Ark. 

Games:

·         Memory Game- Matching Animals (Because they would march 2x2 into the ark)

Paper Bag Puppet Craft:

Supplies:

·         Paper Bag

·         Construction Paper

·         Scissors

·         Googley Eyes (Optional)

·         Glue

Tip: To go easy and fast, have the parts of the animals cut out ahead of time.

Memory Verse:

Genesis 6:6- So the Lord was sorry he had ever made them and put them on the earth. It broke his heart.

Memory Verse Game Ideas:

·         Act it out.

o   Brainstorm motions with the students to match their memory verse. When children learn movements they are less likely to “lose it” from their memory.

·         Post It Cover Up

o   For this activity write the memory verse on the front board of the classroom. Practice reading it once together and then use post-it notes to cover up one of the words. Then, practice reading the verse again followed by covering up a second word with post-it notes. Continue this pattern until the entire verse is covered and the children are saying the verse from memory. This is an interesting spin on traditional drilling of a verse by repetition. You could also reverse the game beginning with some words covered and have children guess the missing words.

·         Find, Assemble, and Read

o   Put each word from the verse onto separate sheets of paper. Hide them around and have the kids find the words. Once the kids have found the words, congregate at a meeting spot and assemble the sentence and read them.

Our Decorating Results:

I'm such a huge fan of this ark. I drew the outline on a cheap white flat sheet from Walmart. Then I painted the outline with dark brown fabric paint. I decided to add lines so that the ark looked like it was made out of wood, as well as some color to the planks. I used acrylic paint (because it was what I had on hand) and followed the creases on the sheet to make the wood planks. Then in each wood plank, to get my sort-of-wood affect, I "scribbled" the paint in each plank. Hopefully this image will help my description to make sense.

I LOVED how the ark turned out and my kid LOVED being able to go "inside it." We turned it into a fort and put our craft from this lesson inside the ark (Taped it to the wall).

Yay for creative thinking!!

God Made Humans and Put Them in a Special Garden

Introduction:

Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person. Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made.

Genesis 2:7-8

Snack:

Caterpillar Kabobs- Grapes, frosting, chocolate chips

Butterfly Baggies- Baggie, clothespin, pipe cleaners, beads, a snack for inside the bag.

Craft: Plant a Person!

You’ll need:

·         A Popsicle Stick

·         A Cut out of a Person, (preferably the size of the popsicle stick)

·         A small clay pot

·         Flower Seeds

·         Potting Soil

Directions:

Have the kids decorate the little person. Glue the little person to the popsicle stick. Plant the and the little person in the clay pot. Instruct the kids to water their flowers and watch them grow!

Activity: Self-Portraits

Have the kids trace their hands and feet, then fill in the rest to make a self-portrait!

Lesson:

Read Genesis 2:4-25-

·         When sharing this with the students, summarize in your own words. I suggest acting out as much of it as you can.

·         Talk about how when God created the first humans, they had a job to do. Describe their job.

·         Discuss ways that we can take care of the plants and animals.

Memory Verse:

Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person. Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made.

Genesis 2:7-8

Memory Verse Game Ideas:

·         Act it out.

o   Brainstorm motions with the students to match their memory verse. When children learn movements they are less likely to “lose it” from their memory.

·         Post It Cover Up

o   For this activity write the memory verse on the front board of the classroom. Practice reading it once together and then use post-it notes to cover up one of the words. Then, practice reading the verse again followed by covering up a second word with post-it notes. Continue this pattern until the entire verse is covered and the children are saying the verse from memory. This is an interesting spin on traditional drilling of a verse by repetition. You could also reverse the game beginning with some words covered and have children guess the missing words.

·         Find, Assemble, and Read

o   Put each word from the verse onto separate sheets of paper. Hide them around and have the kids find the words. Once the kids have found the words, congregate at a meeting spot and assemble the sentence and read them.

·         Use Your Fingers

o   Write the key words to the verse in pudding or finger paint to help with memorization.

·         Rainbow Words

o   Write the verse in the colors of the rainbow. Make sure each word is a DIFFERENT color!

Our Room Decorating Results:

God Made the Animals in the Water and in the Sky

Introduction:

Read Genesis 1:20-22

            Then God said, “Let the waters swarm with fish and other life. Let the skies be filled with birds of every kind.” So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that scurries and swarms in the water, and every sort of bird—each producing offspring of the same kind. And God saw that it was good. Then God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply. Let the fish fill the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”

Games:

·         Memory

o   Match animals

o   Match adult animals with their offspring (“Be fruitful and multiply.”)

·         Pin the tail on the donkey

o   Or any other fun animal.

Craft:

Jellyfish  Directions.

·         Paper Plates

·         Googley eyes Or Construction Paper

·         Ribbon/ streamers

·         Water Colors (for the paper plates

·         Glue

·         Scissors

Directions

1.       Paint the bottoms of the Paper Plates with water colors.

2.       Glue on eyes and the streamers/ribbons to the tops of the paper plates (like shown in the picture)

3.       Hang around the classroom.

Snack

Fish Baggies filled with Goldfish Crackers.

Memory Verse:

Then God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply.

Let the fish fill the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”

Genesis 1:22 (NLT)

Memory Verse Game Ideas:

·         Act it out.

o   Brainstorm motions with the students to match their memory verse. When children learn movements they are less likely to “lose it” from their memory.

·         Post It Cover Up

o   For this activity write the memory verse on the front board of the classroom. Practice reading it once together and then use post-it notes to cover up one of the words. Then, practice reading the verse again followed by covering up a second word with post-it notes. Continue this pattern until the entire verse is covered and the children are saying the verse from memory. This is an interesting spin on traditional drilling of a verse by repetition. You could also reverse the game beginning with some words covered and have children guess the missing words.

·         Find, Assemble, and Read

o   Put each word from the verse onto separate sheets of paper. Hide them around and have the kids find the words. Once the kids have found the words, congregate at a meeting spot and assemble the sentence and read them.

Our Room Decorating Results:

God Made the Land and the Sea

“And God called the dry ground “land” and the water “seas.” And God saw that it was good.”                                  Genesis 1:10

Introduction:

Introduce the lesson by reading Genesis 1:9-10 (I think NLT is the best translation for this).

From reading these verses we learn that God made the Land and Sea!

Lesson: The Leatherback Sea Turtle

Check out THIS LINK!  It takes you to a pdf that tells you all about the Leatherback Sea Turtle, the largest turtle.

Quick Facts:

·         They eat jelly fish, sea squirts, and other soft bodied animals.

·         They’re an endangered species.

·         They lay their eggs on land, specifically beaches.

·         These baby sea turtles are 2-3 inches when they’re just hatched, they can grow to be 4-8 feet long.

·         They don’t really know how long these sea turtles live, it’s assumed they live a really long time.

The link has a lot of other really cool things to know about these sea turtles. 

Craft: Turtles

Check out this LINK.

Supplies:

·         Construction paper or craft foam

·         Egg Carton

·         Googly Eyes

·         Paint

·         Glue

Memory Verse Games

·         Act it out.

o   Brainstorm motions with the students to match their memory verse. When children learn movements they are less likely to “lose it” from their memory.

·         Post It Cover Up

o   For this activity write the memory verse on the front board of the classroom. Practice reading it once together and then use post-it notes to cover up one of the words. Then, practice reading the verse again followed by covering up a second word with post-it notes. Continue this pattern until the entire verse is covered and the children are saying the verse from memory. This is an interesting spin on traditional drilling of a verse by repetition. You could also reverse the game beginning with some words covered and have children guess the missing words.

Our Room Decorating Results:

God Made the Clouds

Ahead of Time:

·         Make a real looking cloud

o   Need balloons, newspaper, flour/water, pillow filling

Snack- Snowball Cookies

Read Genesis 1:6-8

Learn about the clouds:

http://scienceforkids.kidipede.com/physics/weather/clouds.htm

Follow the links to learn about the different clouds.

Activities:

·         Go outside and name the cloud/clouds you see.

·         Take silly pictures with the fake cloud you made before hand.

o   This would be really fun to do outside.

·         Be sure to hang the cloud as decoration in the room.

·         Weather: Fill the cup with water. Put shaving cream on top for a cloud. Explain that when clouds get really heavy with water, it rains! Then put blue food coloring on top of the cloud, and watch it rain. (Test this out before hand)

Craft:

·         Construction Paper/Cotton Balls

o   Create a picture of the sky, including the clouds!

o   Have kids recreate the different kinds of clouds on the construction paper.

Memory Verse:

            Genesis 1:8- God called the space “sky.” And evening passed and morning came, marking the second day.

Memory Verse Games

·         Act it out!

o   Create silly actions with the kids’ help.

·         Hide each word around the room. Have kids find them and help put the verse together.

Our Room Decorating Result: