Noah
NOAH
Objectives:
- Children should be able to tell the story of Noah and the ark.
- Children should identify the Great Flood and its significance.
- Children should know God’s meaning for a rainbow.
Possible Lesson Plan:
- Open with prayer.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sing “Rise and Shine”:
- 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.
- So Noah he built him, he built him an arky, arky, (2x)
Made it out of gopher barky, barky, Children of the Lord.
- The animals they came on, they came on by twosies, twosies, (2x)
Elephants and kangaroosies, roosies, Children of the Lord.
- It rained and poured for forty long daysies, daysies, (2x)
Nearly drove those animals crazies, crazies, Children of the Lord.
- The sun came out and dried up the landy, landy, (2x)
Everything was fine and dandy, dandy, Children of the Lord.
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.
- Close with prayer.