Noah

NOAH

Objectives:

  1. Children should be able to tell the story of Noah and the ark.
  2. Children should identify the Great Flood and its significance.
  3. Children should know God’s meaning for a rainbow.

Possible Lesson Plan:

  1. Open with prayer.
  2. Tell the story from the Beginner’s Bible, pp 26-33, First Bible, pp 14-21, or the Children’s Bible Reader, pages 24-27.

Add Noah to your timeline. 

  1. Instead of True/False, have several small stuffed animals, a rock, a pencil, and several other non-animal things. Have the children one by one choose something that Noah would have taken (i.e., an animal) and place it in a basket.

 

  1. Discuss storms; use pictures from the library if desired. Thunderstorms, hurricanes, tornadoes – all are scary. Ask the children what scares them: the wind? the rain? the thunder? the lightning? Imagine how Noah and his family might have felt during the 40 days of storm.

 

  1. Discuss rainbows: What did God say to Noah with the rainbow? Have they seen a rainbow? What colors are in a rainbow? Draw and color a big rainbow.
  2. Sing “Rise and Shine”:
    1. Lord said to Noah, “There’s gonna be a floody, floody,” (2x)

Get those children out of the muddy, muddy!” Children of the Lord.

                        Chorus: So rise and shine and give God the glory, glory, (3x)

                              Children of the Lord.

  1. So Noah he built him, he built him an arky, arky, (2x)

Made it out of gopher barky, barky, Children of the Lord.

  1. The animals they came on, they came on by twosies, twosies, (2x)

Elephants and kangaroosies, roosies, Children of the Lord.

  1. It rained and poured for forty long daysies, daysies, (2x)

Nearly drove those animals crazies, crazies, Children of the Lord.

  1. The sun came out and dried up the landy, landy, (2x)

Everything was fine and dandy, dandy, Children of the Lord.

6. Play animal Charades with pictures (since many are not yet reading well):

  1. Make a Noah Mobile: Take 2 hangers and cross them as illustrated, securing with duct tape. Have children draw an ark, Noah,and several animals (or color them in a coloring book) Cut out. Punch a hole in each, tie a string, and tie to the mobile. draw a rainbow, cut out, and glue to the hanger crosspieces overtop. Hangers hard to find? Use a paper plate, glue the rainbow on the top, and punch holes for the strings to come through. 

Alternate craft: Too time-consuming? Try this easier one. Print on cardstock and cut out ahead of time. Have children draw and color animals in the windows of the ark. Cut a sheet of blue construction paper with the waves or print on blue cardstock and cut out. Cut out the ark with its tabs. Cut the slits in the "ocean" and put the tabs through the blue construction paper and tape or glue on the back. Now the ark can move! Need an "icon ark"? Pick your favorite icon of the ark and add the tabs and cut out, or use the one here. Cut around the ark and people to remove the sky and sea. 

 

  1. Close with prayer.