9/11/11 Summer Unit 1: God Made Everything Lesson 2

Bible SummaryGenesis 1–2

God created every-thing in six days,including light anddark, the water andthe sky, the land andplants, birds and fish,animals, and His mostwonderful creation:people. On the sev-enth day, God rested.

Bible Verse“In the beginningGod created the heavens and theearth.” Genesis 1:1

In the Beginning . . . Growing into a Life of Faith

ObjectivesKNOW WHAT:Children will hear the whole Creationstory. The focus will be on Days Four andFive, when God made the sun, moon,stars, seasons, fish to fill the water, andbirds to fill the sky.

SO WHAT:Children will learn that God made every-thing, including the sun, moon, stars, sea-sons, fish and birds.

NOW WHAT:Children will participate in activities toidentify things they do during the differentseasons, and to identify a variety of largeand small fish and birds. They will cele-brate these things God has made.

Spiritual FormationCelebration

People NeededTeacher, Helper

Supplies(Labeled items below can be found in theLesson 2 Visual folder on the SummerQuarter CD.)

� CD player�Music for singing� The Beginner’s Bible� Creation picture (drawn with crayons)� Large paper pad or easel-size white

board� Easel� Play Doh® (yellow, red, and blue)� Crayons� Beret and smock (or bright, artsy cloth-

ing) for Teacher and Helper (optional)� Flashlight or lamp (optional)� Application pictures (Lesson 2 LG 1 –

Lesson 2 LG 4):• Kids making a snowman• Flowers• Kid swimming• Girl raking leaves

� Fish paper (Lesson 2 SG 10a, 10b)� Bird paper (Lesson 2 SG 11a, 11b)� For each child

• Key Concept sticker (Lesson 2 SG 12)• Two-sided take-home coloring sheet

(Lesson 2 SG 13 and Lesson 2 SG 14)• Snack

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KEY CONCEPT MOTIONS:

Every time you say the key concept during the lesson, use these motions: God [point up] made everything [reach arms

forward and move them out to the sides].

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Notes:

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In Advance� Recruit a Helper to operate the music CDs. The Helper has a number of lines during this

lesson. Make sure your Helper is comfortable with this.

� Determine which songs you will use and be prepared to lead the children in singing.Song suggestions:

• Upbeat song for transition from Activity Stations to the Creative Bible Teaching • “God Made Me” (Reach Up High CD)• “Seven” (Touch the Sky CD)• “God is Number One” (Touch the Sky CD)

� Gather the supplies listed above and arrange your classroom as follows:

• Designate one area or corner of the room as your teaching area. Set up props that willbe used during the lesson and consider covering them with a sheet or a large piece offabric to keep them from curious kids during Activity Stations. Also consider placing aline of tape on the floor to help keep kids out of the teaching area.

• For the lessons in Unit 1, the teaching area is “Creation Station.” Decorate the space asan artist’s studio. Place art supplies of all kinds on a small table or desk and paint, fin-ger paint, or draw a splashy, bright-colored backdrop on butcher paper to hang at theback of the teaching area. Consider hanging some of the kids’ artwork from ActivityStations on the wall, as well.

� Color a creation scene on a piece of white paper for the Helper to show.

� Draw a creation scene on the paper pad or white board including sky, ocean, and landwith plants, flowers, and trees. This will be a background for the Play Doh® pieces.

� Prepare the Play Doh® pieces in advance. You can shape them freehand or use cookie cut-ters. Place them in a bowl or container where you can easily pull them out, but make sureit is covered or sealed so the Play Doh® doesn’t dry out. Hide the Play Doh® in or undersomething in the room.

� Prepare the materials that will be given to each of the children. To prepare the stickers,print or copy the pages onto Avery label sheets #5294. Consider cutting the stickers apartfor easier distribution.

� Print out the lesson and practice the teaching time.

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Teacher’s PrepREVIEW GENESIS 1–2. Can you remember drawing a picture of a house with a yardaround it when you were a kid? If you were like most of us, you drew that same house andyard on many occasions. You might have drawn flowers in front of the house. And if youweren’t the best artist, you might have only drawn a single kind of flower. Aren’t you gladGod is a better artist than we are? That His ability to create is perfect? The next time you arein your yard, stop and take a close look at a flower. Compare the one God created to theones you used to draw. Both are precious to Him: one because it was drawn by His child,and one because it is an expression of His creativity. God’s ability to design different types offlowers and every other created thing is endless. Thank You, God, for the amazing world yougave us to live in and for being such a creative Creator!

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Creative Bible Teaching

(15 MINUTES) [Play upbeat music as children transition to the teaching area. Encourage kids to clap theirhands along with you. Clap in a variety of styles like overhead, on your knees, on your belly, etc.]

TEACHER: Hello, everyone! My name is _________________, and I am so excited you’re here today. Weare going to learn more about creation here at Creation Station! The word creation means tomake something. We’ll be learning about everything that God made. Creation Station is avery fun place where we can come and make all kinds of neat things, like paintings anddrawings. We also get to play games and sing songs. Let’s all stand up and sing a song to Godright now.

� MUSICSong suggestion: “God Made Me”

[Invite kids to sit down on the count of three. The Helper takes the colored creation picture up tothe Teacher. The Teacher shows it to the kids.]

TEACHER: Hi, everyone. Look what _______________ [Helper] colored for me! It’s a beautiful picture.It’s got all the things that God made. Let’s all tell _________________ [Helper] “thank you”![Kids respond.] This is a great way to remember the story of creation! Today we’re going tobe learning more about it. God made everything in seven days. Let’s count [hold up fingers asyou count]: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven days! How many days? [Kids respond.] Today,we’ll be using something special to help us tell the creation story from the Bible. But first, Ineed to find it! Let me see, where did I put it? Oh, I think I put it in here. [Look in or undersomething in the room.]

Nope, not here. Let me try over there. [Look in a second place.] Oh, wow, there’s the yo-yo Ilost. But that’s not what I’m looking for, either. I think I know where it might be. [Look in athird place]. Ah, I found it. [Take out Play Doh®]. Okay, I think we’re ready to get started.[Place Play Doh® on the table]. I’ll put my Play Doh® here. _______________ [Helper], willyou please stand here and hand me my supplies? Now I just need to bring out my CreationStation drawing pad.

[Bring out paper pad or white board with pre-drawn creation scene and set it on the easel.] Andwe are ready to go! Here’s my Bible for the Bible story. [Show Bible.] Click on your listening

Activity Stations(20 MINUTES) Choose which Activity Stations you will use from the list included in the Activity Stationsfolder.

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ears, friends. Click! Click! [Tug on each earlobe.] Now let’s put on our special eyes. Shookum!Shookum! [Hold hands to eyes, one at a time, shaping glasses.]

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In the beginning, there was nothing on the earth. The earth was empty and very, very dark.But, God had a plan! On Day One [hold up one finger] . . . friends, can you hold up one fin-ger? _______________ [Helper], get ready. On Day One, God said, “Let there be light.”

[Helper takes out flashlight and shines it on the teacher.]

And there was light! God called the light day, and He called the darkness night. After Godmade the light, He said [pause and give a thumbs up], “It is good.” Say that with me: “It isgood.”

HELPER: On Day One, God made the bright light and dark night! [Turn off the flashlight.]

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TEACHER: On Day Two [hold up two fingers] . . . friends, hold up two fingers. On Day Two, God madethe beautiful blue sky. [Point to the sky.]

He also made the water [point to the water] that comes from the sky and the water in the bigocean and the smaller seas. When God saw the beautiful blue sky and the oceans and seas,He said, [pause and give a thumbs up], “It is good.” Say that with me: “It is good.”

HELPER: On Day Two, God made the sky of blue and water, too.

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TEACHER: On Day Three [hold up three fingers] . . . friends, hold up three fingers. On Day Three, Godmade the land. [Point to the land.] God made all the plants, flowers, and trees that grow onthe dry land. When God saw dry land with all the plants, flowers, and trees, He said [pauseand give a thumbs up], “It is good.”

HELPER: On Day Three, God made the land, plants, flowers, and trees.

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TEACHER: On Day Four [hold up four fingers] . . . friends, hold up four fingers. On Day Four, Godmade a big, big light called the sun.

[Helper hands yellow Play Doh® sun to Teacher.]


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TEACHER: God made the big light of the sun to shine up in the sky during the day. He made the sun tokeep us warm. [Stick the Play Doh® sun on the pre-drawn picture.] And He made the sun tohelp plants, flowers, and trees grow. Friends, hold your arms up over your head and make apretend sun. [Model for kids.] God also made the smaller light, called the moon, to shine upin the sky at night. And God made the smallest lights in the nighttime sky that twinkle,twinkle, twinkle. He called them stars. Friends, twinkle your fingers like stars. [Model for kids.]

God also made the four seasons. Like winter, when it’s cold and we have lots of snow andmake a snowman! And spring, when all the beautiful flowers start to bloom. Summer, whenit’s hot, and we get to go swimming. And the fall, when all the leaves turn colors and falldown, down, down on to the ground, ground, ground. When God saw the sun, the moon,and the stars, He said [pause and give a thumbs up], “It is good.” Let’s say that together:” It isgood.”

HELPER: On Day Four, God made the sun so bright and moon and stars at night.

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TEACHER: On Day Five [hold up five fingers] . . . friends, hold up five fingers. On Day Five, God filledthe water in the ocean with lots of fish. He made big fish and small fish.

[Helper hands Play Doh® fish to Teacher.]

TEACHER: God made all kinds of different fish to swim in the ocean. He made turtles, starfish, seahors-es, dolphins, whales, and octopuses. [Stick the fish on the picture.]

HELPER: Look, I can make a fish face! [Suck in cheeks and wiggle lips.] Let’s all give it a try!

[Kids and Teacher make fish faces. Helper hands Play Doh® birds to Teacher as Teacher mentions them.]

TEACHER: On Day Five, God also made lots of birds. There were blue birds. [Stick on blue bird.] Therewere yellow birds. [Stick on yellow bird.] And there were red birds. [Stick on red bird.] All thebirds were made to fly up in the sky. Let’s all flap our wings like a bird. [Kids respond.]

God made all kinds of birds to fly in the sky. When God saw the fish and the birds, He said[pause and give a thumbs up], “It is good.”

HELPER: On Day Five, God made fish, big and small, and birds, one and all.

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TEACHER: On Day Six [hold up six fingers] . . . friends, hold up six fingers. On Day Six, God made allthe animals that live on the land. And God made something else on Day Six. He made


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something very, very special. He made people! He made a man and a woman. When Godsaw the animals and the people, instead of saying, “It is good,” God said [pause and give athumbs up], “It is very good.” It is very good.

HELPER: On Day Six, God made the animals on land and a woman and man.

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TEACHER: On Day Seven [hold up seven fingers] . . . friends, hold up seven fingers. On Day Seven, Godstopped making things, and He rested. On Day Seven, God took a rest! Friends, let’s take arest. Let’s stretch [stretch] those arms way up and out! Now, let’s relax and rest. [Release a bigsigh.] Good job!

HELPER: That was fun! [Go to the CD player.]

TEACHER: It sure was! The creation story is a great story! We learned that God [point up] made every-thing [reach arms forward and move them out to the sides]! Friends, say that with me. God[point up] made everything [reach arms forward and move them out to the sides]. Let’s saythat together in our squeaky voices. God [point up] made everything [reach arms forwardand move them out to the sides]. Now, let’s try that in our low voices. God [point up] madeeverything [reach arms forward and move them out to the sides]. Let’s stand up and sing to God!

� MUSICSong suggestion: “Seven”

[Invite kids to sit down on count of three. The Helper returns to the teaching area.]

TEACHER: Friends, let’s say our special words. God [point up] made everything [reach arms forwardand move them out to the sides]. Let’s go back over our fun creation poem and rememberall the things God made. Ready? [Point to each section as you mention it. Hold up the appro-priate number of fingers, and encourage the kids to do it with you.]

TEACHER AND HELPER: On Day One, God made the bright light and the dark night.On Day Two, God made the sky [reach up high] of blue and ocean [make waves with yourhands], too.On Day Three, God made the land, plants, flowers, and trees [pretend to grow like a tree].On Day Four, God made the sun [make a sun with your hands] so bright and the moon andstars [twinkle fingers] at night.On Day Five, God made the fish [pretend to swim], big and small, and the birds [flap armslike birds], one and all.On Day Six, God made the animals on land and a woman and man.On Day Seven, God took a rest!


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Life Application Activity(10 MINUTES)

TEACHER: Great job, friends! Let’s play a game that will help us learn more about the things God madeon Day Four and Day Five. We’re going to need some pictures to help us.

[Helper shows four Application pictures and sets them up on the easel or tapes them on the wallwhere the kids can easily see them.]

TEACHER: Okay, everybody. Take a look at our four pictures. I’m going to give you some clues. Whenyou know the picture I’m taking about, I want you to shout it out real loud! Here’s the firstone. Ready? You do this in the winter when there is snow on the ground. What is it? [Make asnowman.] That’s right! Good job. [Point to picture.] We make snowmen in the winter. Let’spretend to make a snowman. First the body. [Roll a big ball.] Then the head. [Set another ballon top.] And the eyes and the mouth. [Stick them in.] Good job. God made the snow in winter.God [point up] made everything [reach arms forward and move them out to the sides].

Let’s try another one. In spring, you plant these in the ground, and they grow and grow intosomething very pretty. What are they? [Flowers]. Good job! [Point to picture.] These aresome flowers. Flowers grow in the spring. Let’s pretend to grow like a flower. [Start low andgrow up high.] Good job. God made the flowers that grow in the spring. God [point up]made everything [reach arms forward and move them out to the sides].

All right, that was great! Let’s do another one. You get to do this when it’s hot outside, andyou want to cool off, and you need your bathing suit! What is it? [Swimming.] Good job![Point to picture.] We get to go swimming in the summer. Let’s pretend to swim. First, we’lldog paddle. [Model.] And now we’ll do the backstroke. [Model.] And now let’s splash every-one! [Model.] Good job! God made the water we can swim in during summer. God [pointup] made everything [reach arms forward and move them out to the sides].

Let’s try one more. What picture am I talking about now? You do this in the fall when theleaves fall down, down, down to the ground. What is it? [Rake leaves.] Good job. [Point topicture.] We rake leaves in the fall. Let’s pretend to rake. Pull those leaves in with the rake.[Model.] Now let’s heap them in a pile. [Heap up an armload.] And now let’s jump in them![Jump.] Good job, everyone! God made the leaves in fall. God [point up] made everything[reach arms forward and move them out to the sides]. Let’s sing a song to God!

� MUSICSong suggestion: “God is Number One”

[Invite kids to sit in a circle and do the following activity, if time allows.]

TEACHER: Good singing, everyone! We are going to do a counting activity now. You will all get to helpme count.

[Show the children the Fish picture. Read the text on the back and help the children respond.]

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FISH PICTURE1. God made fish. Let’s count the big fish. [Point and count the fish with the children.] How

many big fish do we see? [Three.]2. God made fish. Let’s count the baby fish. [Point and count the fish with the children.] How

many baby fish do we see? [Five.]3. God made everything in the water. Do you see the octopuses? Let’s count the octopuses.

[Point and count the octopuses with the children.] How many octopuses do we see? [Two.]

Show the children the Bird picture. Read the text on the back and help the children respond.

BIRD PICTURE1. God made birds. Let’s count all the birds in the picture. [Point and count the birds with the

children.] How many birds do we see? [Seven.]2. God made birds. Let’s count the birds in the nest. [Point and count the bird with the chil-

dren.] How many birds in the nest do we see? [One.]3. God made birds. Let’s count the birds that are flying. [Point and count the birds with the

children.] How many birds flying do we see? [Two.]

[Make sure that every child has a chance to help count.]

TEACHER: Good job! God made the fish and birds. God [point up] made everything [reach arms for-ward and move them out to the sides]. Let’s pray and thank God for everything He maderight now. [Do “Open them, close them.” Children will say the finger play with you and repeateach line of the prayer after you.]

Open them. [Open hands.] Close them. [Close hands.]Open them. [Open hands.] Close them. [Close hands.]Give a little clap. [Clap hands.]Open them. [Open hands.] Close them. [Close hands.]Open them. [Open hands.] Close them. [Close hands.]Fold them in your lap. [Fold hands in lap.]

Dear God,Thank You for making the sun,moon and stars.Thank You for making fish and birds.Thank You for our snack.In Jesus’ Name,Amen.

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Snack and Coloring Activity(15 MINUTES) This is the time for you and the children to build community. A great way to let the kids knowyou care about them as individuals is to ask them questions about themselves.

GIVE each child a snack to eat.GIVE each child a Key Concept sticker to put on their shirt while they are eating their snack.GIVE each child a coloring sheet to color while they are waiting to be picked up.ASK each child a question or two:

• Do you have a fish or a bird at home?• What was your favorite part of the Bible story?

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God made everything.

The Beginning (Genesis 1)

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