Today's lesson is about Noah and the ark God told him to build. Noah did it, EXACTLY as God told him to... and it saved him! Today's project is a booklet that the kids will fill in the blanks as we talk about the Bible lesson. My kids have learned about Noah a lot already, so the fill-in-blanks should help them remember the little details from Genesis. I have included the scripture in case you want to have kids use their Bibles and find the answers themselves. But, I like having a Bible lesson straight from the Bible anyway. There's not a better place to get the answers!
This
is the table visual my husband made for me several years ago. There is a
train car on the top so the kids can understand the scale.
Bible
Verse: But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Genesis 6:8 (NKJV)
Lesson:
After
a long time, God saw that the people on the earth were evil all the
time, God was sorry that He created man. God said that He was going to
destroy man and the
animals because He was sorry that He made them.
Today's Bible
verse says: (GB 2.2) But Noah found grace in the
eyes of the Lord. Noah obeyed God. He had 3 sons named Shem, Ham and Japheth. God
told Noah that the people on the earth were so bad and that He is going to
destroy them. “Make yourself an ark of gopher wood.” God told Noah
exactly how to build it and exactly how big to build it, exactly what to use,
exactly how many floors, windows and doors. [Show diagram to further discuss.
It was 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high, 3 floors, 1 door
on the side & 1 window.]
Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded
him, so he did. (6:22) Noah didn't pick and choose what he wanted, or what he felt like doing.
He did all that God said to do.
It took Noah and his sons 120 years to
build the ark.
(GB
2.5) God said “I am
going to bring a flood and destroy everything, except for you, your wife, your
sons and their wives. I want you to bring a male and female of every animal and
keep them alive on the ark.
I want you to take enough food that will be
needed to eat for you, your family and the animals.” So Noah did what God
commanded him. No questions, no whining, he just did it. (vs. 22)
God told
Noah to go onto the ark. He was to take 7 each male/female of the clean
animals, 2 each male/female of the unclean. 7 each of the bird’s male/female.
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(GB
2.4) Noah was 600
years old when God flooded the earth. It took 7 days for the animals to
go onto the ark. (vs. 4) They went 2 by 2, male & female. (vs. 9) God
shut the door of the ark. (GB 2.6) It rained
for 40 days and 40 nights and covered everything. (GB
2.7) Everything that was not in the ark died. (GB2.8)
The water picked up the ark and it floated.
God made a
wind pass over the earth to help dry it faster, the waters settled in the earth
and it stopped raining. There was water on the earth for 150 days. The ark came
to a stop on Mount Ararat.
(GB 5.9) After 40
days, Noah sent out a (1) raven.
Then he sent out a (2) dove, but it came back since there wasn’t any place dry
for it to rest.
After another 7 days passed, he sent out another (3) dove and
it brought back an olive leaf. After another 7 days, he sent out the (4) dove
and it didn’t return. That meant there was someplace it could make a home.
(GB
2.10) Noah took off the
covering from the ark and looked to find the ground was dry. If you add up all
the days, they were on the ark for 1 year! God told Noah to leave the ark with
his family and all the animals.
(GB
2.11) Noah built an
alter and offered sacrifices to God.
God was pleased with Noah and put a rainbow
in the sky. He said it is His promise to man that He would never destroy the
earth with water again. Every time you see the rainbow in the cloud, it
will remind Him and the people of His promise.
Noah lived
350 more years after the flood. He was 950 years old when he died!
Here is the booklet that we used during the lesson. The kids filled in
the blanks as we did the lesson. You can print it in color or black
& white. Spanish is available in both. Also, to print back to back
and staple as a booklet, print these pages together:
Pages 8&1 print on opposite side of 2&7
Pages 4&5 print on opposite side of 6&3
B/W: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3uNEVAAKowpTDZhd2tKbGk5ZFk/edit?usp=sharing
Spanish:
Color: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3uNEVAAKowpbmtPNkp2TDVxeFE/edit?usp=sharing
B/W: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3uNEVAAKowpQ0pLUHpPT2xBbVE/edit?usp=sharing
Spanish translation @ http://translate.google.com/#en/es/
Spanish:
Color: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3uNEVAAKowpbmtPNkp2TDVxeFE/edit?usp=sharing
B/W: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3uNEVAAKowpQ0pLUHpPT2xBbVE/edit?usp=sharing
Spanish translation @ http://translate.google.com/#en/es/
You can print Noah's worksheet here:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3uNEVAAKowpaXlRTEdtT1hZTlU/edit?usp=sharing
All the Genesis Worksheets can be printed here: http://kidsbibledebjackson.blogspot.com/2013/05/genesis-worksheets.html
All the Genesis Worksheets can be printed here: http://kidsbibledebjackson.blogspot.com/2013/05/genesis-worksheets.html
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3uNEVAAKowpYTR0NjQtd29heGs/edit?usp=sharing
Here is a full page size Bible verse to print:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3uNEVAAKowpU0RxY2dsUTQ0YlE/edit?usp=sharing
You can find all the Genesis Bible verses here:
http://kidsbibledebjackson.blogspot.com/2013/06/genesis-bible-verse-printables.html
Here is the cut & glue worksheet
that can be used by itself, or with the lapbook printables:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3uNEVAAKowpTjRBQ2NEMXlveEE/edit?usp=sharing
There
are a lot of foamie sets and sticker sets for Noah that you could use
for this page. Or, if you have a diecuts for Noah, that would be great
also! I am using this sticker set for the workbook (instead of printing
page 2):
http://www.orientaltrading.com/noahs-ark-roll-stickers-a2-57_6671-12-1.fltr?Ntt=noah
See all the Genesis cut and paste worksheets and lapbook printables here:
http://kidsbibledebjackson.blogspot.com/2013/05/genesis-lapbook-cut-glue-student.html