Sunday School Lesson for Children

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Try these ideas for discussions, games, and activities for your Sunday school lesson for children to teach your 6-8 year olds about the story of Creation and how God made us. Using these activities helps to teach them how we can all be similar yet different at the same time.

Bible Story:
Tell the story of the creation of Adam and Eve in basic language that this age group can understand.

Game:
Have each student in turn come to the front of the class and describe a part of the body without touching it, looking at it or using the word itself. For example: “I use this part of my body to see with.” They can be as clear or as tricky as they choose to be!

Discussion 1:
All people look different, and yet they look the same. Name the similarities. Name the differences. It’s like when you buy a car – each car has four wheels, an engine, somewhere to sit, a wheel to turn, but then there are differences such as make – Ford, Toyota, Chevrolet, etc, color, size. Are there other examples that the children can come up with?

Activity:
Bring a map of the world, and some pictures of children – cartoon/graphic type images will work best as these will show the differences/similarities easier than a photograph – from other countries. You could even photocopy a map of the world and give this to each child, and then have them put a mark on this as you hold up the pictures so that they can try and identify which part of the world each child comes from.

Discussion 2:
God just didn’t make our outsides. He made our insides, and how we feel about things. As with the outsides, we all feel, but we feel differently about different things. What kind of things do we feel – emotions. How do we show our emotions?

You could hold up pictures of children exhibiting various emotions here and have the class guess what emotion it is.

Or

Write down a number of different emotions on separate pieces of paper. Have each child in turn, come to the front of the desk, take a piece of paper, read it, and then act out that emotion for the rest of the class to guess.

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