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Year 1, Term 1, Week 1: Ideas for Senior Group
Week 1: Creation: Our Special Purpose!
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Lesson Objective:
God created everything in the universe and it was good! He created humans with the special purpose of having a relationship with Him!
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Bible Passage:
Genesis 1:1-31
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Memory Verse:
Genesis 1:27- God looked at what he had done. All of it was very good! Evening came and then morning, that was the sixth day!
Story Idea: Creation Scene
- Set up a creation scene using bed sheets for water/land, stuffed animals, painted sun/moon, fairy lights for stars etc.
- Download and print the creation day numbers and cut out
- Shut curtains, turn off lights and make the room as dark as possible
- Have the kids enter and sit in front of the scene
- Narrate the story of creation or read it from the Bible and as God says 'let there be light' - switch the lights on
- You may turn them back off again when you talk about night and put the fairy lights on as stars
- As each day is mentioned, have one of the kids bring the creation day number and stick it to the thing that was created on that day
Quiz Questions:
1. What was the earth like before God created everything? Barren/no form of life/empty
2. What was the very first thing God created? Light
3. On what day did God create plants? Day three
4. What was something God created on day four? Sun/moon/stars
5. What was something God created on day five? Birds/fish/sea creatures
6. What did God think of the things he created on days 1-? It was good
7. What did God think of the humans he made? They were very good
8. Who were the humans made to be like? God
9. What do you think that means? We share characteristics with God
10. What did God want the humans to do on earth? Rule the fish, birds and creatures
11. Why do you think God made humans? To have a relationship/friendship with him
Note: John 6:40- My Father wants everyone who sees the Son to have faith in him and to have eternal life.
Game: Picture Musical Chairs
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- Before the lesson, download and print the creation number set
- Set up a game of musical chairs with the chairs in a circle and attach one picture to each chair
- Children walk around the chairs to music, when the music stops, call out something that was created... the children have to find the picture and go and line up at that chair (the first child touches the chair, the second forms a chain with the first and the third with the second etc.)
- Any children who pick the wrong chair are out, if everyone is correct, the last child in the line is out and sits off to the side
- The last child in the game wins!
Craft Idea: Shoe Box Planet Diorama
- Before the lesson, collect a series of shoe boxes or small cardboard boxes and spray paint them black
- Gather paints, brushes, cardboard, string, thumb-tacks, tape and a variety of different sized foam balls
- Print the planet picture examples and the lesson reminder template
- Have the kids paint each of their foam balls like the planets in the pictures and splatter white paint across the inside of the box like stars
- They may like to cut out cardboard rings (a circle with a hole in the middle) and
- Help the kids tack a string into the top of each planet and fold the lesson reminder and stick it to the top as shown
Whole Group Display Craft: Planets
- Gather a series of different sized balls (basketballs, tennis balls, foam craft balls etc.)
- Use the solar system size picture below to assign the different sized balls to which planets they should be
- Before the lesson, coat each ball in a layer or two of paper mache (strips of paper dipped in some pva glue which has been mixed with water, then laid all over the ball to dry)
- Split the kids into groups and have each group decorate a planet using either paint and brushes/sponges or by sticking coloured tissue paper to the planet
- Rings can be made using large circles of cardboard with a hole cut in the middle to suit the size of the planet
- Hang the planets from the roof using fishing line tacked into the planet, along with the stars made by the youngest children and the banner made by the middle group
