Scripture Reference
Genesis 1:27-31 (NIV)
"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, 'Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.' Then God said, 'I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground - everything that has the breath of life in it - I give every green plant for food.' And it was so. God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning - the sixth day."
Memory Verse
Genesis 1:1 (NIV)
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
Activity
Today we're going to add a man (Adam) to our Creation Box. I'm going to let Kiera choose her supplies, because she really enjoys working with all the things in our craft cabinet. Andrew will color a picture that I draw for him with a man in it. He loves to color!
How It Went
Again, Kiera enjoyed making her addition to the Creation Box. We both had a good laugh at her first attempt at making a man... He was very cute, but she'd given him a little pair of pants, etc. We got to have a talk about sin entering the world and causing Adam and Eve to be embarrassed over their nakedness. (We also kept his pants for a different lesson!)
I cut out a little person for Andrew to color. He's particularly fond of glue sticks these days, so he wanted to glue his little person to a larger sheet of paper. He finished his work of art by painting it with glitter glue. (I get glitter glue pretty inexpensively, so I let the kids squirt some on a picture sometimes and use a brush to "paint" with it.) We also wrote "God Made People" on the top of his picture and repeated several times that "God made people and God made Andrew". He got a real kick out of repeating me, "God - people...God - Andrew!!)
I've been surprised at how successful the Creation Box has been. Both kids have asked again and again to add more things to the Box, even at times when we weren't doing our devotions. Kiera is also enjoying her memory work. She doesn't quite have her verse memorized yet, but she does like the idea of it at least. We'll keep working on different ways to memorize verses as the weeks go by. I do have to admit...while I'm glad that the Creation Box was successful, I'll be glad to move on to other activities in our devotions. It's easy to have an ongoing project like this, but it's a little less-than-exciting for grown-ups! :)
