Crafts
1. Make a Spiral Snake With Bible Verse - Have your children cut out spirals from typing paper and color them to look like snakes. (A pattern for this craft is available on The Resource Room - spiral
snake pattern.) Add a Bible verse to the back of the snake.
1. Garden of Eden Color and Activity Sheet - Children color the picture and insert a snake through a slot in the picture so that they can make the snake move and talk to Eve. (This activity sheet is available to members only.)
2. Work on a Bulletin Board Display - Have children make trees, a river, and flowers from construction paper. Help them find pictures of animals in magazines, and tape them to a bulletin board to make a picture of what they think the Garden of Eden might have looked like. Use the Bible References in the story to read about the Garden of Eden.
3. Use a felt board and pictures of trees, flowers, and animals to tell the story of Adam and Eve. Betty Luken's Bible Story Felts work great. The Adam and Eve lesson on The Resource Room also has picture you can print out and use on a felt board or bulletin board. Glue felt on the back of the pictures or use pieces of sticky-backed Velcro (Use the hook part, not the fuzzy part.) Make a felt board by stapling or gluing pieces of blue and green felt onto a corkboard. If you don't want to take the time to make a felt board, you can just have your children tape the pictures on to a bulletin board.
The following Activity Ideas come from the Adam and Eve Lesson. You can find a complete lesson on The Resource Room
Activities:
Play a Bible Verse Review Game - Before class cut out apple shapes from red construction paper or card stock. Write the word "Christ" on the back of one of the apples. Tape the apples to a large tree display. S&S Worldwide has a nice bulletin board display tree that comes with 50 green leaves. I have used a bulletin board tree for several lessons including: Amos Wasn't Famous, Zacchaeus, 
and Jesus Never Changes. You can also decorate it in the fall with colorful leaves and write, "We're Falling For Jesus". Click on the link below to find this display.
If you don't have a bulletin board tree, you can just lay the apples on the floor and have your children sit in a circle around the apples.
Write the Bible verse on the board and go over it several times leaving out the word "Christ". "For as in Adam all die, even so in ____ shall all be made alive." 1 Corinthians 15:22
Tell your children that because of Adam's sin we all die, but because of someone else, we shall all be made alive. Let's see if we can find the missing word that belongs in this Bible verse.
Have your children take turns picking an apple that they think might have the missing word written on it. Turn over the apples for them to see if there is something written on it. Keep playing until a child has found the word. You can make the game easier by removing the apples that have already been picked or harder by leaving all the apples on the tree.
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