Lesson 11: Adam and Eve - The Very First Sin

Hi friends!  We're home from our trip and starting back up with our lessons!  Here is today's lesson...
*Note - For this lesson, I used one of our storybook Bibles, The Beginning Reader's Bible, learn more about it here.

1. Verse - no new verse for today, but read Genesis 3 beforehand to prepare for the lesson.

2.  Lesson-

• Pray with your child about the lesson.
• Review the last lesson (about the Garden of Eden and Adam and Eve.)
• Read the story to your child.  I used "The Very First Sin" from The Beginning Reader's Bible.  You can use whatever storybook Bible that you have or read straight from the Bible, Genesis 2:8-17, 3: 1-23  OR, just tell the story to your child by summarizing it yourself.  While I read the story, I stopped and pointed out the different parts of the picture that illustrate the story.  (I love the pictures in this book!)
• After you read, summarize the important parts of the story to reinforce it and highlight the main points:
• God told Adam and Eve that they couldn't eat fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden, but the snake tricked them and told them God was wrong!
• Adam and Eve decided to disobey God.  He told them not to do something, but they did it anyway.  When they disobeyed God, they sinned.
• Disobeying God is called sin.
• Because they disobeyed God, they had to leave the wonderful garden and work hard.
• But even though Adam and Eve sinned and had to leave the Garden, God still loved them very much!  He made them clothes and he took care of them.

3.  Craft -  pasta snake/coloring page.
So...I read this craft idea on a blog and created it myself (without directions!).   Admittedly, it was a bit of a flop!  Jenna did have fun stringing the noodles and was mildly excited about her snake, but it's a little sad-looking and as we were making it, I thought, "Why are we highlighting Satan's part in this story?!?"  That didn't occur to me until we were actually making it!  I was just trying to do something other than a coloring page!  So, I just reminded Jenna a few times that the snake was the "bad guy" and he tricked Adam and Eve.  Then we colored a coloring page to kind of make up for it!
But, here are directions for the snake...in case you want to try it!
This is the finished product...

(Kind of pitiful for a blog, I know!!)

Materials - pasta (I used rigatoni), rubbing alcohol, green food coloring, yarn, two googly eyes, two large beads, hot glue gun

 Directions -
1.  Dye the noodles the night before.  I found directions for this on this blog.  But I only made this much...

Basically, I just put some alcohol in a large ziploc bag, added about 6 drops of food coloring, then added about a half a cup of noodles, swished it around and let it sit for about an hour and a half.  Then I took the noodles out and let them dry overnight.
2.  Cut a piece of yarn (the length of your snake).
3.  Tie a bead to one end of the yarn.
4.  Let your child string the noodles to make the snake.
5.  Tie the second bead on the other end of the snake, as tightly as you can to the noodles.  Leave a little extra yarn to be the "tongue."
6.  Hot glue two googly eyes to the second bead.  And you have a snake!

Soooo, if you don't want to go through all of that, here is a nice coloring page to go with the story...

4.  Song - I decided to repeat a song we did recently to help her learn it well...
"My God is So Great."  #45 on Wee Sing Bible Songs

5.  End with reviewing the important parts of the story one more time!

Lesson 10: Intro to Garden of Eden and Adam and Eve

1.  Verse - No new verse today.  We've collected quite a few verses.  So, I felt like we could use a break to review them.  BUT, this story is based on Genesis chapter 2.  I recommend that you read the chapter beforehand to prepare for the lesson!

2.  Lesson -

• Pray with your child about the lesson.
• Review previous verses and the days of creation (from the last two lessons.)
• As I told the story of today's lesson, I used the pictures from the craft (see below) to illustrate the story.
•  When God was making the earth, he used the dust and the dirt on the ground to make a man. He named the man Adam.
• Then God made a beautiful garden and it was called Eden.  That's where Adam lived!  What kinds of things are in a garden?  (flowers, plants, etc.)  All of those things were in the Garden of Eden and also trees and rivers!  It was a very beautiful place! (show the garden picture)
• God also made animals and the Garden of Eden was filled with all kinds of animals. (show the animal pictures)
• It was Adam's job to take care of the garden and the animals.  He gave all the animals their names!  What are some animal names that you know?(name the animal pictures and add others)
• Now, God decided that Adam needed a helper to help him take care of the garden and the animals.  So, God made a woman and he named her Eve. (show picture of Adam and Eve)
• So, Adam and Eve were the first two people that God made!  They were husband and wife and they lived in the Garden of Eden.
• God loved Adam and Eve and they loved God.  

3.  Craft - Garden of Eden coloring page/craft.
So, as I come up with crafts, my goal is that everything is a free printable. For this craft, I pieced together a few printables to come up with one craft.  So, you'll need the following pages from this link:
http://www.easy-child-crafts.com/bible-coloring-pages.html

Then you'll need the the "Adam and Eve" page from this site: http://www.coloringpagespot.com/joomgallery/printable-crafts/fall-of-man-puppets-coloring-page-175

I cut blank part off the bottom of the garden and then cut out the Adam and Eve and the lion, fox, and giraffe.  So, here are the pieces:

Then write "The Garden of Eden" along the top of a piece of construction paper.

Then have your child color the pieces.  Trim the smaller pieces.  Glue the garden onto the construction paper first.  Then glue the people and animals onto the garden however your child wants to!

Finished product:

*Note about the craft - This craft requires a lot of coloring!  You may want to plan to help your child with some of the coloring.  You can see, I colored the giraffe and Jenna got a little tired of coloring by the time she got to Adam and Eve!  :)


4. Song -  "Praise the Lord Together"  #44 on Wee Sing Bible Songs
"Praise the Lord together singing Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!" (2x)

5.  End by reviewing the names in this story...Garden of Eden, Adam, Eve

Lesson 9: Creation, Days 4 - 7

1. Verse - No new verse this time, use the same verse as last time: "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." Genesis 1:1

2.  Lesson -

• Pray with your child about the lesson.
• Review previous verses.
• Review the last lesson, the verse and Days 1 -3 of creation.  We used the coloring pages to review the first three days of creation.
• So, that's what God made the first three days, today we'll talk about what God made during the next three days!
• On the fourth day, God made the sun, moon, and the stars.  Have your child look at the coloring page for the fourth day while you read Genesis 1:16 out loud.
• On the fifth day, God made the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea.  Have your child look at the coloring page for the fifth day while you read Genesis 1:20-21 out loud.
• On the sixth day,God made animals and people.  Have your child look at the coloring page for the sixth day while you read Genesis 1:24, 26.
• When God was finished making all that he made, he said that it was all good!
• Now, making all these things was a lot of work.  So, on the seventh day, God rested! Have your child look at the coloring page for the seventh day while you read Genesis 2:2 out loud.
• Talk about what he made...What kinds of animals live in the ocean? the sky? on land?
• Pray - Thank God for all of the good things that you have made.

3. Craft - Creation coloring pages
Have your child finish coloring the pages from the set of creation pages that you chose last time (from this link  http://www.coloring.ws/creation.htm)

We had a bit of a rough morning, so the coloring got finished later in the day (after naps!).  We also (later in the day when we needed something to do) stapled the pages into a book.  For the cover, I took some construction paper and wrote "Jenna's Book About Creation" at the top.  Then I asked Jenna to draw things that God made.  It was a great processing, summary activity.  Jenna's just barely starting to draw recognizable things, so it was fun to see what she came up with!

Madeline walked over and showed some interest..."Look, Madeline, this is you and this is Jenna!"

It was a fun activity!

4.  Song - "My God is so Great."
"My God is so great, so strong and so mighty.  There's nothing my God cannot do. (2x)
The mountains are his.  The rivers are his.  The stars are his handiwork, too.
My God is so great, so strong and so mighty.  There's nothing my God cannot do.  For you!"

5.  End by reviewing the verse one more time!

Lesson 8: The Creation Story, Days 1 - 3

This is my first Old Testament lesson.  I plan to spend a few days on Creation because there's a lot to it!  
With this lesson, I'll start doing Bible stories, but along the way I'll work in lessons about things God wants us to do (love Him, Obey, Share, etc.).  Just a reminder, I'll be using two different Bible story books to illustrate some of the stories...you can see them here.  And now to the lesson...
 
1. Verse - "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." Genesis 1:1 

 2. Lesson - 

• Pray with your child about the lesson.
• Review past Bible verses.
• Read today's verse and explain that "created" means "made."
• Before God made the earth and people, there was nothing.  Everything was just dark, really dark.  What does it look like when it's dark?  (night time, really black, etc.)
• Then God made the earth and he did it in 6 days.
• Use the coloring pages from the craft to explain the story of the first three days:
• On the first day, God made day and night.  Have your child look at the coloring page for the first day while you read Genesis 1:3-5 out loud.
• On the second day he made the sky and the water.  Have your child look at the coloring page for the second day while you read Genesis 1:6 out loud.
• On the third day, God made dry land, seas, and plants and trees.  Have your child look at the coloring page for the third day while you read Genesis 1:9, 11 out loud.
• Talk about what we know about these things:  What do we do during the daytime/nighttime? What kinds of things are in the sky?  What kinds of things grow outside in our yard?
• God made all these things and God says the things that he's made are really good.
• Pray:  Thank God for night, day, the beautiful sky, the land, oceans, beautiful plants in our yard.
• Extension of the lesson - The next time you are outside with your child, point out the plants, trees, skies, etc. and talk about how God made these things!

3. Craft - Creation Coloring page booklet
Go to this website, http://www.coloring.ws/creation.htm, and choose one of the Creation coloring page sets to use.  Have your child color the first three pages.  In future lessons, they'll color the rest of them and staple them into a booklet!

Here are Jenna's!  She got a little bored of coloring today and asked for some help from mommy...
  

4.  Song:  "The B-I-B-L-E"  (#20 on Wee Sing Bible Songs)
"The B-I-B-L-E. Yes, that's the book for me!  I stand alone on the word of God.  The B-I-B-L-E!"

5.  End with reviewing the new verse one more time!


Hope you all have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend, spending extra time with family and friends!