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Year 1, Term 1, Week 2: Ideas for Middle Group
Week 2: Creation... We disobeyed God
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Lesson Objective:
God gave Adam and Eve freedom but asked them not to eat from one tree... Adam and Eve disobeyed God and were separated from Him.
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Bible Passage:
Genesis 2:15-17, Genesis 3:1-24
Memory Verse:
Genesis 3: 23 - So the Lord God sent them out of the Garden of Eden, where they would have to work the ground from which man had been made.
Story Idea: Watch It!
Ask children if they remember what last week’s lesson was about, prompt them to remember that:
- God created everything, and it was good!
- God created people to know and love Him!
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Have the kids watch the following youtube video:
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Quiz Questions:
1. What was God's plan for people? To live in relationship/friendship with God in a perfect world
2. Does God allow us to make our own choices? Yes
3. What was the one rule God gave Adam and Eve? Don't eat from the tree in the middle of the garden
4. Did they do the wrong thing? Yes
5. How do you think that affected their friendship with God? Badly, they ruined the relationship with God - God sent them out of the Garden
6. Have we done wrong things too? Yes
7. What are some things we might've done wrong? Lying, stealing, hurting others etc.
8. Do you think God knew we would make bad decisions and do the wrong thing? Yes
9. Did God have a plan to fix our relationship with him? Yes
10. Who was He going to send to fix this? Jesus
Game Idea: Stop... Go... Slow...
- Download, print and cut out the stop/go/slow signs
- Set up a circle of markers
- Have the kids walk around the markers and hold up a sign while saying the direction (stop = stop, go = go, slow = slow motion)
- The last kid to obey the direction is out
- To make it interesting, give them different ways of moving around (eg. walking, jumping, walking backwards, crawling etc.)
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​Remind the kids that God gave us directions to help us live the right way. The wrong things we do affect our relationship with God, but thankfully God had planned from the beginning to fix the problem He knew we would create!
Whole Group Craft Display: Snake
Have the kids create a large snake to go on the tree display made by the older group!
Three options to create a snake could be:
- Have them stuff a long stocking with newspaper, then stick on googley eyes, a tongue and decorate with pieces of cut out paper/fabric or paint
- Create a long paper chain snake and allow the kids to decorate their chain pieces with paper cut outs or drawings before they staple them together, then attach googley eyes and a tongue to the face (NB: wider strips give more defined segments)
- Have each child decorate a few toilet rolls and string them together in a long string with a face on one end (googley eyes and tongue)
Drape the snake over the tree made by the older group
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