September's Stories
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Creation (Genesis 1)
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God’s Image (Genesis 1:26-31)
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Adam and Eve (Genesis 3)
Creation
Read: Genesis 1:1-2:4
Watch: Creation Bible Story
by Tim Thornborough
Sing: Creation Song
by Saddleback Kids
Ask: God made the world and everything in it. God said that God’s creation was good.
What are some of the good things God made? What are your favorite plants? Favorite animals? Favorite people?
Play: Go to a park or just to your backyard and sit in God’s creation. Invite your child to close their eyes and listen.
What do you hear? Look around you. What do you see? Take a deep breath. What do you smell? Thank God for the beauty of the world around you.
Serve: God made the earth and gave us dominion over it. That means we are to care for the earth and all of its creatures.
One way we can take care of God’s creation is to make our backyard (or porch) a welcoming place for birds! Thread O-shaped cereal onto yarn or pipe cleaners and hang it in trees or from your porch where birds can eat it.
Pray: Creator God, thank you for all the wonderful things you created. Help us to take care of your world. Amen.
God's Image
Read: Genesis 1:26-31
Watch: Created in God's Image
by Matthew Paul Turner
Sing: God Made Me
by Cedarmont Kids
Ask: God made you just the way you are!
What are some things that make you you? What are some things you like to do? What is something that makes you laugh? What makes you happy? What do you like about how God made you?
Play: Use a gingerbread cookie cutter to make playdough people creations. Decorate them with playdough clothes and hair and features.
Remind children that God created all people in God’s image. Each person is special and different, but all are created and loved by God.
Serve: Because God loves all people, we are to love one another.
Pick three people and pray for them. Make a card or draw a picture for each person letting them know that they are loved.
Pray: Thank you, God, for the wonderful things you have made - including me! Help us to love all people, since you created and love all of us. Amen.
Adam and Eve
Read: Genesis 2:15-25
Watch: Adam and Eve Bible Story
Sing: Adam and Eve Action Song
Make Right Choices by Mr. Music
Ask: We aren’t meant to be alone. God made Eve to be a friend and helper for Adam.
Who helps you? Adam and Eve made a poor choice. They didn’t listen to God. Who helps you make good choices? Have you ever wanted to do something you know you weren’t supposed to do? How does it feel when you mess up? You are loved, even when you make bad choices. God always gives us a chance to make new choices.
Play: Play a game of “This or That” to give children practice making choices. Ask things like do you like “cats” or “dogs” and have them run to one side of the room or the other based on their choice (or stand up and sit down).
Other choices: sing or dance, pizza or hamburgers, cake or cookies, be together or alone, broccoli or green beans, would you rather be a fish or a bird, etc.
Serve: Say thank you to someone in your community who is a helper: the one who bags your groceries, a teacher, a delivery driver, a fire fighter, a custodian at school, etc.
Pick a helper and give them a flower or a note to say thank you.
Pray: Thank you, God, for loving us always, even when we make mistakes. Thank you for giving us friends and helpers. Amen.