I. What children should understand:
1. Conviction
- God has created everything. He created it out of nothingness.
2. Attitude
- I will rely/depend on the Almighty God.
3. Habit
- Everytime I come across any creation, I will pray in my heart; O God the creator, I praise you.
II. Teaching aids:
- A chart containing pictures of different creations. Paper boat, pearl necklace
- The whole Bible.
III. Presentation of the lesson:
The objective of this lesson is to create in the children the awareness that God is the creator of everything by looking at the beautiful universe. To make children understand that God is the only person capable of creating from nothingness through examples like there cannot be a paper boat without paper, pearl necklace without pearl. It will be good to slowly (read out Genesis 1: 1-25 to the children.)
IV. Activities related to the lesson:
1. Colour the picture
Help children to colour appropriately flowers, sun and trees.
2. Repeat
Teach children to memorise Bible verses in the class itself by repeating verses and giving children an opportunity to present in front of others.
3. Join our hands
Help the children to say names of living beings and then invite them to praise God along with these beings.
4. Join the dots
Assist the children to join the dots carefully.
5. Let us memorize
Read out verses from the book of Genesis and then ask them to by heart it.
V. Correlated Activities:
1. Prepare a chart
Make a chart on God’s creation based on the pictures brought by the children.
2. Prepare a model
To make the children understand that God created from nothingness make paper boats, paper fan and paper animals.
3. Act
Enact God’s creation.
4. Tell a story
Narrate the story of creation and ask the children to repeat the story.
5. Questions
1. Who created everything?
2. What did God create in the beginning?
3. What are the creations we see in the sky?
4. How did God create everything?