GENESIS
Chapter 3

If you don’t have a Bible handy, click this link for Genesis Chapter 3.

• The serpent deceives Eve. (verse 1-5)
• Eve and Adam disobey God. (verse 6)
• They cover themselves with fig leaves. (verse 7)
• Adam and Eve hide from God. (verse 8-10)
• The blame game. (verse 11-13)
• The serpent gets cursed. (verse 14-15)
• Adam and Eve have consequences for their actions. (verse 16-19)
• Eve gets her name! (verse 20)
• God puts clothes on Adam and Eve. (verse 21)
• God takes Adam and Eve out of the garden. (verse 22-24)

Discussion:
Eve had everything – except one tree. Why do we always want the one thing we can’t have?
Why did God allow Satan in the garden?
We have free will. Why is that important to God?
Do you enjoy freedom of choice?
Would you want someone to love you if they are being forced to?
Adam wasn’t deceived. Why did he disobey?
Did Adam want Eve more than he wanted God?
Adam and Eve had a perfect world and it wasn’t enough. How do you view your world?
They tried to cover themselves but it wasn’t good enough. Why?
Do you believe that all choices have consequences?


Questions and Crafts for the Children
Is it easy to obey?
Have you disobeyed your parents?
Did you get caught?
Did you blame it on someone else?
Were you punished for it?

Crafts
Cutouts of boys and girls
Crayons
Construction paper
Poster board

Paper Dolls

Paper Doll Clothes



Print out the paper dolls and the doll clothes images. Have the children color the clothes and cut them out. Or, have each child make clothes for the cutouts using the construction paper.





To print out the images: Click on the image, select copy image, then paste the image onto a document (such as Word). You can make the image smaller or larger - then print.

Take Adam and Eve off the original poster and put them on the blank poster board. (leave room to add to it for future chapters).

                        



Cut strips of paper to represent fence posts and put them on the original poster. (see fence samples) This will show that the garden is now off limits to Adam and Eve.

GENESIS
Chapter 2

If you don’t have a Bible handy, click this link for Genesis Chapter 2

Starting off with verses 1-3, God rested on the 7th day.

The Bible is full of “Sevens”:
     Every 7th day is a Sabbath
     Every 7th year is a Sabbatical year.
     Every 7th Sabbatical year was followed by a Jubilee year
     7 weeks between Passover and Pentecost
     Passover feast lasted 7 days
     Tabernacles feast lasted 7 days
     Jericho fell after 7 priests with 7 trumpets, for 7 days marched around the wall. They marched 7 times on the 7th day.

Verses 4-5 tells us this is the history.

Here we find a man, a garden, animals, and a woman. God planted the garden and caused a mist to come up from the ground to water it. (Verse 6)

Verse 7 – God made man from dirt & breathed life into him. God made man before He rested on the 7th day (see Chapter 1:27-31). Here in chapter 2, it tells how He did it. God was personally involved when making man – got His hands “dirty” in forming us from the dust of the earth. We weren’t just something He spoke into existence. He lovingly crafted us – shaped us, molded us. He used His own breath to give us life (verse 7).

Adam is the only human created from dirt. All other humans come from other humans. God used only one man to create the rest of the humans.

Verse 8 – God puts man in the garden.
Verse 15 – Man is to take care of the garden.
Verse 17 – God gives man the one rule about the Tree of Knowledge of Good & Evil.
Verse 19 & 20 – God brings the animals to man so that he can name them.
Verse 21 & 22 – God made a woman from the man’s rib. Eve is not made from dirt. God used a part of Adam to make Eve.
Verse 24 – The first marriage.

Discussion Questions:
God created man and the animals from dirt (verse 19). Why do you think God used dirt?
How do you feel about rules? Do you make them or break them?

Crafts and Activities for the Children
Craft supplies:
Dirt, sand, red clay dirt
Bowl for mixing
Styrofoam cups – small planter pots
Seeds – all different
Cut out of a girl

Take the bowl and mix all the types of dirt together. Have the children pick up a handful of dirt.  Ask them: Can they make a man from dirt?

Fill the Styrofoam cups (or small planters) with dirt and plant seeds in it. Have each child plant a different type of seed. This will be the “garden”.

Use the poster made for Chapter 1 and have the children give each animal a name. Not the species name (such as horse, chicken, etc.) – that would be too easy. Have them give each animal their own made up name. What would they call a horse? They can see what it was like to have to come up with names for everything.

Take the cutout of the woman and put her on the poster with Adam. (See stick figure). Or have the children draw their own version.

Drawing page: Have the children draw different flowers coming up from the planters.



Ask the children what rules they need to obey.