Read Genesis 6-9
Plus there are several childrens books teaching about Noah and his family published by Arch Books (from Concordia Publishing) have every type of Bible story you could want!)

Noah's Ark Coloring/Craft Page

Make Wooden Ark

Take popsicles and lay them out onto a table and log cabin style of stacking form a boat. Keep adding layers until aprox. 3 inches- 4 inches tall. Break 8 sticks in half or snip them with huge pliers and for the top portion of the ark. I used Tacky glue and wood glue. School glues does not hold the wood as well. Give the kidss several days to work on it!

Ark Picture

Give each child a precut ark shape from sandpaper or corrugated cardboard. They glue these on to another paper. They can draw, paint or glue blue paper on for water, if desired. Use animal crackers for animals, these can be glued on. Cotton balls for clouds, Q-tip painting for rain, etc.

Rainbows

Make a mosaic rainbow, use small squares of paper the colors of the rainbow. Draw a small arch on each child's paper. This will give them a guideline for the bottom color on the rainbow and they can keep adding the colors on. They glue on the squares , one color at a time.

Character Teaching

Noah was kind. Noah was good. Noah obeyed. These character qualities can all be applied to the children in very practical ways.

Doves and Olive Branches Game

Use paper olive branches or leaves. Hide them throughout the play area. Designate one child as Noah. The rest of the children are doves. Noah says "Fly away and bring me a branch" The children scatter and look for the branches. When they find one they return with the branches. Designate a new Noah who can hide the branches and repeat the game.

Noah's Ark Circle Banner:

Materials: white posterboard crayons toothpicks or craft sticks animal crackers cotton balls silver tinsel feathers green chenille stem any other color chenile stem 1 in. wide ribbon 1 yard long

1. Cut 5 3 in. circles from white posterboard. One set for each child.

2. On the first circle, have the children make an ark out of toothpicks or craft sticks broken into shorter pieces. Depending on your age group you may have to draw the shape and have them fill in with the chosen material. also have them color the bakground to look like hills, sky etc.

3. On the next circle, have them draw the background again and then glue animal crackers in matching pairs.

4. On the 3rd circle, have them glue cotton balls for clouds and silver tinsel for the rain.

5. On the 4th circle, draw a bird head and have them glue on feathers. Take a green chenille stem and bend it into two loops to look like leaves and glue to the bird's mouth (the dove returning with the olive branch).

6. Have the children draw a rainbow. You could also use scraps of tissue paper for them to glue on for the rainbow.

7. Glue the circles in order onto wide ribbon. You may want to put a Bible verse on an index card at the bottom such as Gen 9:13 "I set my rianbow in the cloud, and it shall be a promise between Me and the earth."

8. For a hanger, bend a chenile stem in half and then twist and bend into a circle, then fold the top of the ribbon over and glue around the circle. I also cut a V-shape out of the bottom of the ribbon to give it a finished look

Paint a piece of construction paper blue(sky) on top and green(grass) on the bottom. Cut a paper plate in half and paint one half brown(the Ark) Cut out two white clouds and one yellow sun, and glued them on top. Glue animal crackers all around the Ark and on the green grass. We also typed Gen.7:8-9 (All creatures, male and female, came to Noah and entered the Ark.

Make an ark

Cut out two large boat shapes and punch holes around sides and bottom. With shoe laces or yarn (ends previously dipped in glue and dried or wrapped tightly with tape) lace the two boat pieces together. Make a rainbow shape for the top to fit on like a handle. Let the children color with watercolors, markers or crayons. Staple or glue (or both) to the top of the ark. Fill with animal crackers.

One of my favorite songs!

The Lord said to Noah...

1. The Lord told Noah there's gonna be a floody, floody, Lord told Noah there's gonna be a floody, floody, get those animals out of the muddy, muddy, children of the Lord.

So rise and shine and give God the glory, glory, rise and shine and give God the glory, glory, children of the Lord.

2. The Lord told Noah to build him an arky, arky, Lord told Noah to build him an arky, arky, build it out of gopher barky, barky children of the Lord.

So rise and shine and give God the glory, glory, rise and shine and give God the glory, glory children of the Lord.

3. The animals, the animals, they came in by twosies, twosies, Animals, the animals they came in by twosies, twosies, Elephants, and kangaroosies, roosies, Children of the Lord.

So rise and shine and give God your glory, glory, rise and shine and give God the glory, glory, children of the Lord.

4. It rained and poured for forty daysies,daysies, Rained and pured for forty daysies, daysies, Almost drove the animals crazies, crazies. Children of the Lord.

So rise and shine and give God your glory, glory, rise and shine and give God the glory, glory, children of the Lord.

5. The sun came out and dried up the landy, landy Look! There's the sun, it dried up the landy, landy, Everything was fine and dandy, dandy, Children of the Lord.

So rise and shine and give God your glory, glory, rise and shine and give God the glory, glory, children of the Lord.

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