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Let’s say hello to Eve! – women in the Bible 1

Let’s say hello to Eve! is our first bible story in a new series all about women in the Bible . Eve was the first woman in the Bible so we are beginning with her. It’s a good place to start!

In this story we focus on a few things

God made Adam

God made Eve

The Bible Story is based on Genesis 2: 4 -24

Let’s say hello to Eve Bible Story

In the storybag have puppets or dolls to represent Adam and Eve (don’t worry too much about whether or not they are wearing clothes)

Say hello to Adam! Now Adam was a real person who lived a long, long, long time ago. He was very special because he was the very first person ever! He wasn’t ever a baby! He wasn’t ever a toddler! So how did he get to be the first person ever?

The Bible tells us that God made Adam. God had already made the birds and the fish, the sun, moon and stars. God had already made all the trees, plants and flowers. He had already made the elephants, tigers, lions and all the other animals. Everything in God’s new world was beautiful. It was all very good! God had made all these things by just speaking.

But then God did something different. He made Adam out of the dust. And God breathed life into him.

Now Adam needed somewhere to live so God made a beautiful garden for Adam. He gave Adam a job to do, ‘Look after the garden,’ God said. He gave Adam one rule to keep,’ Don’t eat the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden,’ God said.

But when God looked at Adam in the garden there was something that wasn’t good! ‘It isn’t good for Adam to be alone’, God said. There were lots of beautiful plants and amazing animals but they weren’t enough.

So God made Eve, the very first woman to be Adam’s best friend. Are you ready to say hello to Eve? Hello Eve!

Adam and Eve weren’t just the very first man and the very first woman, they were the very first family. God loved them and gave them the very best place to live. And they were happy!

If you want to tell the next part of the story then there is an idea in this post that covers Genesis 3.

Craft idea – make a family

All you need for making a family craft

People shapes – either buy or cut out your own
Tissue paper
Fabric scraps if you have any
Crayons
Yarn for hair – try to have a variety of colours
Glue
Backing paper

To make have a selection of the above collage materials. Let the children select the people shapes and glue them to the backing paper. Then decorate the people shapes with the collage materials. Let children choose what they like and don’t worry if they glue tissue paper on the hair and yarn for clothes. let them choose how they want their picture to look.

In the beginning God made – days 4-6 – craft ideas

In the beginning God made – days 4-6 – craft ideas suitable for using at toddler groups and with young children in church or at home. Genesis 1 tells us how God made the world. Everything was made in a precise order and all of creation was good!

These crafts are easy to make. You need a variety of craft supplies and some preparation is needed. Below is a list of everything you need but be creative and use what you have. Magazines are great for finding pictures for crafts so have a look at what you have at home and ask people to be on the lookout for pictures on calendars and greetings card. It’s much easier than printing pictures from the web! The star shapes I have used were from a box of craft items that I found in a charity shop.

If you are running a toddler group or church group ask for donations of wool, fabric, greetings cards and used calendars. It’s like collecting treasure in the form of craft materials!

In the beginning God made – days 4-6 – craft ideas – everything you need

Tissue paper (various colours)
Paper plates – cut into moon and sun (see photo)
Small cup cake cases (I used metallic – brightly coloured would be fine too)
Small pasta stars
Star shapes
Pictures of birds cut from magazines
Pictures of animals cut from magazines
People shapes
Wool and fabric
Crayons
Glue (if using the pasta stars you will need PVA glue and glue spreaders. Glue sticks are fine for everything else)
Fish shape printed out
‘In the beginning God made…’ labels printed out
Animal stickers
A3 paper
Black A4 paper or card

I really like the large people shapes but if you would rather use pictures of people you can.

In the beginning God made – days 4-6 – craft ideas collage using pictures of people

Enjoy making! have a look at this post for craft ideas for Creation Days 1-3.

In the beginning God made – days 1-3 – craft ideas

In the beginning God…crafts days 1-3 for toddler groups and young children to enjoy making. In Genesis 1 we learn all about days of creation. These crafts cover the first 3 Days of Creation from Genesis 1:1-13.

All you need

Patterned muffin cases and cup cake cases – trim these to look like flowers
Blue paper
Large lollipop sticks
Shiny paper
Black paper – A4
Cotton wool shapes (make up remover pads are great!)
Blue and green tissue paper
Red dot stickers
Tree shapes
Cardboard rolls (toilet rolls or you can buy cardboard rolls if you prefer)
Blue paper – A4
Blue paper, different shades cut into waves
Brown paper cut into hill shapes
Glue sticks
Crayons

In the beginning God made light

To make ‘In the beginning God made light’ use the black A4 paper and put the label in the centre. The children then add the shiny paper shapes and can use white crayons to decorate.

Label (3×8) ‘In the begining God made light Genesis chapter1’Download

In the beginning God made sky and sea

To make ‘In the beginning God made sky and sea’ use the blue paper and tissue paper to make the sky and sea (different shades work well) and then add the label.

Label (3×8) ‘In the begining God made sky and sea Genesis chapter1’Download

In the beginning God moved the water and there was land

To make ‘In the beginning God moved the water and there was land’ you need some blue paper for the sky and sea plus some brown for the land. You can add some clouds too.

Label (3×8) ‘In the begining God moved the water and there was land Genesis chapter1’ (1)Download

God made the land on Day Three, when he also made the trees and plants. You could add cut outs of plants and trees to the above picture or make some extra crafts.

In the beginning God made trees and flowers

Label (3×8) ‘In the begining God made flowers Genesis chapter1’Download

Label (3×8) ‘In the begining God made trees Genesis chapter1’Download

Here’s a download for the tree shape. It’s best to print it onto card. Ahead of time make two slits opposite each other in the cardboard roll. After the tree shape has been decorated it can be slotted into the tree trunk.

Tree-Roll Download

The next three days of creation include the sun, moon and stars, birds and fish and animals and people! When God saw everything he had made it was very good. 🙂

There are lots more ideas on this pinterest board

In the beginning God made light!

In the beginning God made light Bible Story and craft idea to use with young children.

How everything began is recorded for us in Genesis 1. Telling the story of Creation to young children is a great opportunity to help children understand that they are special and important because God made them.

In the beginning God made light story idea

You will need some dark blue or black fabric and some white fabric (sheets or blankets are fine)

Black and white fabric to represent day and night

Before the world began there was God. God had no beginning; he has always been.

Then God began to make the world.

It was dark! (show the dark fabric). And then God said, ‘Let there be light.’ And there was light! (show white fabric). God was making the world from nothing. We can’t do that! If we make something we need something to make it with. If we want to build a tower we need bricks. If we want to make a sandwich we need bread. But God is so powerful he made things from nothing!

Now God had made darkness and light. But they were mixed up. So God separated the light and the darkness. God called the light day and God called the darkness night. That was the very first day ever!

In the beginning God made light craft idea

You will need

Black paper
Gold paper – cut in to strips
Silver paper – cut in to strips
White crayons
Labels – ‘In the beginning God made light’ Genesis 1.
Glue

Craft for In the beginning God made light using black paper and gold and silver paper.

Label-3×8-In-the-begining-God-made-light-Genesis-chapter1 Download

God made everything story and craft.

God made everything story and craft for toddler group and preschoolers. This is the first page of our Big Book that we made here.

The Story is based on Genesis 1

There are lots of different ways to tell the story of creation. You can use pictures, paper plates that represent the different days, objects from a storybag (model animals, model trees, fruit etc). When I teach this story I focus on a few details

God made everything by speaking – he said the word and things were made!
Everything God made was very good. (thumbs up!)
God breathed life into Adam and them he made Eve from one of Adam’s ribs. (Genesis 2)

When you tell the story you can count the different days together, repeat the phrase ‘It was very good’ (everyone does a thumbs up) and explain that people are very special to God- he breathed life into them and gave them a beautiful and perfect place to live.

A big book to use as a visual aid when telling Bible Stories. God made everything story.

Some Creation paper plates that are great to use to tell the story – link to instructions

Paper plates decorated as the days of creation from Genesis 1. God made everything story.

God made everything craft ideas

There are so many crafts you can do about creation! Here are a few ideas from this blog plus a link to a pinterest board where I’ve collected ideas

A creation place mat (requires some cutting out – either do beforehand or let older children do it themselves) , creation collage all about people (cut faces from magazines) we printed out a picture of the world but if you don’t want to do that you could combine the sponge print globe with the faces, a sponge print world – we used circles cut from card, blue and green paint and kitchen sponges that were easy to hold. The paint should be fairly thick!

Creation Pinterest Board with lots of craft ideas!

God made the stars spiral

This is exactly the same basic idea as the blossom spiral that I posted about here https://lettheirlightshine.com/2020/02/20/spring-is-coming/

Instead of blossom I’ve used tissue paper for the sky – you could use anything blue including paint or crayon. But the lovely thing about tissue paper is that I’ve made the strips long so they hang down from the spiral and they will move when the spiral is displayed.

The stars are stickers.

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