This Bible activity is a great way to teach your students about the Creation story while allowing them to express their creativity!
Craft Materials
- Play dough, enough for each student to have a golf-ball-sized handful
- Light-colored construction paper, one sheet for each student
- Brown yarn or twine
- Glue stick
- Crayons
- Markers
- Scissors
Related Scripture
The Fall: Genesis 3
1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, “˜You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, “˜You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.'”
4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the LORD God called to the man, “Where are you?”
10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me – she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
Bible Activity Preparation
Make up an example of the craft using the instructions below so children can see.
1. Have students draw freehand a “Tree of Life” up the center of their papers.
2. While doing so, pass the spool of yarn around. Have each student wrap the yarn around all four fingers, right near their knuckles, six times.
3. Cut the yarn off the spool and have students pinch the end with their thumbs, without removing the yarn.
4. Cut off a smaller piece of yarn, maybe 3 inches.
5. Have students carefully remove the yarn from their fingers and pinch the center of the loops.
6. Tie the smaller piece of yard around the center of the loops, making a knot. This makes Eve’s outfit.
7. Have students use a glue stick to attach the outfit under the Tree of Life, then draw on her head and legs.
8. On either side of her feet, have students cut a slit. The best way to do this is to create a temporary little fold, cut across it 1 inch, then release the paper.
9. Have them roll out their glob of play dough until it is like the shape of a pencil–long and skinny, though not so skinny it breaks. This is the serpent.
10.Turn the paper over. Thread the serpent through the two holes so that his head and tail come out in the front.
11.Loosely tie the serpent’s head and tail. Make a head by lightly pinching an inch below one end. Draw on a face using marker pens.
12.Write at the bottom, “DON’T LET BAD GUYS SLITHER IN!”
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