Elijah

ELIJAH

Objectives:

  1. Children should be able to tell the story of Elijah – his feeding by the ravens, his meeting with the prophets of Baal, the “still, small voice”, and the fiery chariot.
  2. Children should identify Ahab and Jezebel as an evil king and queen.
  3. Children should identify Elijah’s student and disciple, Elisha.

Possible Lesson Plan:

  1. Open with prayer.
  2. Read the story of Elijah from the Beginner’s Bible, pages 201-221, the Children’s Bible Reader, pages 141-144, First Bible, pages 112-117, or the Read with Me Bible pages 194-209 plus the Golden Children’s Bible 276-277.  Be sure to identify Jezebel as the queen of King Ahab, since she is left out of the Children’s Bible Reader. This would be the time to discuss with the children the split among the Jewish people that occurred around 900 BC, dividing the land into Israel in the north with its capital of Samaria and Judah in the south with Jerusalem its capital. Elijah lived in the north and Ahab and Jezebel were king and queen of Israel.

Add Elijah to your timeline.

  1. True/False questions:

                                        True                                                     False

                  Elijah was fed by ravens.                          Elijah was fed by a dove.

                  God sent fire from heaven.                       Baal sent fire from heaven.

                  Elisha was the disciple of Elijah.              Noah was the disciple of Elijah.

                  Jezebel was a wicked queen.                    Ruth was a wicked queen.

                  Elijah was taken by a fiery chariot.           Elijah died and was buried.

 

  1. Talk about prayer: How does God speak to us? How did He speak to Elijah? In a voice of thunder (as He did at Jesus’s baptism)? In an earthquake? In a wind (as He did at Pentecost)? Or does He speak when we are quiet in a still, small voice? Have the children practice being quiet before God.

  1. Make a “Fire from Heaven”

Stained glass window: Give each child

a piece of wax paper 18 inches long.

Cut out an altar from black construction

paper and place in the center of the

waxed paper. Cut out flames from          

yellow, orange, and red tissue paper

(in the cabinet) and lay all around and

over the altar. They can overlap a little.

Take to the teacher. Place another

piece of waxed paper over the

whole picture, and iron on low

to melt the wax. Hang in your window.

 

  1. Alternate craft: Irons not a great option? Try this one instead, remembering that Elijah was taken up to heaven in a flaming chariot. Print the icon on cardstock. Cut out Elijah in his chariot, the two angels, and little Elisha in the corner. Take a piece of blue construction paper and glue the two angels in the sky and Elisha at the bottom. Add cotton ball clouds if desired. Now cut a slit near the top of the paper. Tape or staple Elijah to one end of a long strip of matching paper and fit the other end through the slit. You can make Elijah rise into heaven by pulling on the strip in the back!