Family Home Evening Ideas
June

NOAH’S ARK
Genesis 6-8

Object lesson: Draw on a white board an ark with waves around it and have big blue raindrops laminated (so they can be written on with dry erase marker).

*Younger kids: Let them play charades acting out the animals.  Ask them to list things that the wicked people did/didn’t do and write the list UNDER the water.  Ask them what Noah and his family did and write it ABOVE the water.  Then talk about how just like Noah and his family ha to be obedient, so do we.  Ask what temptations we have today and write them on the raindrops.  Then talk about the promise of the rainbow and the blessings from the Lord to Noah.  Ask them to name blessings we get for our obedience.  As they list them, draw stripes in the rainbow with the dry erase markers above the ark and list the blessings in the colors.

*Older kids: Instead of telling the story and them playing charades, have the story divided up with a part for each child and they can narrate/role play the story.

*Activity: Measure out 30 cubits worth of yarn.  (A cubit is between 17 ½” and 21" inches - see the Bible Dictionary.)  Hold the yarn out and explain that the Ark was 10 times longer than the piece of yarn.  The ark was somewhere between 1 ½ and 3 football fields long (depending on the size of Noah’s arm.)

*Treat: Serve “rainbow” sherbet with animal cookies.

Interesting Facts about Noah and the Ark:
-He took seven of every “clean” animal (ones they could eat) and every fowl (so they could spread seeds)
-There were rainbows before Noah, but at the time of Noah, the rainbow became the token from the Lord that He would never flood the earth again.
-It was 120 years between the time the Lord told Noah he was going to send a flood and the flood came.

THE CREATION

Heavenly Father told Jesus to make this earth.

First Day: Genesis 1:1-5.  Jesus made day and night.
Have the children color half of a white piece of paper black.

Second Day: Genesis 1:6-8. Jesus made the heaven and earth.  Have the children color a piece of white paper blue.  Jesus put clouds in the sky.  Have your children put cotton balls on the colored blue paper.

Third Day: Genesis 1:9-13.  Jesus separated the water from the dry land and created grass, flowers, trees, fruits, and herbs. Have the children glue or tape the plants (tree and flowers) , and the leaves and grass (you collected before hand) on a piece of white paper.

Fourth Day: Genesis 1:14-19.  Jesus created the sun, moon, and stars.  Have the children draw the sun, moon, and stars on a piece of white paper.

Fifth Day: Genesis 1:20-23.  Jesus created fowl and fish.  Have the children color the top half of a piece of white paper sky blue and the bottom half dark blue.  Have the children glue the fish on the bottom part and the birds on the top part of the paper.

Sixth Day: Genesis 1:24-31.  Jesus created animals.  He also created male and female in the image of our Heavenly Father.  Have the children color a piece of white paper green.  Draw (or glue pictures of) animals on the green paper.

Seventh Day: Genesis 2:1-3.  Have the children color a piece of white paper any color.  On the last day, Jesus did not make anything, he rested because it was the Sabbath.  What do we don on Sunday?

PUDDING PICTIONARY

Use plates covered with pudding in place of a drawing board and use your finger instead of a pen.  One team tries to guess the scripture story that a member from the other team is drawing in the pudding.

HUMAN KNOT

Have everyone stand in a circle and reach into the circle with both hands.  Grab two hands belonging to two different people.  Then, try to untangle yourselves without letting go of each other’s hands.  OR- have everyone join hands facing the center of a circle, except one person.  That person is the doctor and leaves the room.  While the doctor is out of the room, everyone steps over each other, twists and turns until the circle is a knot.  No matter what, they cannot let go of each other’s hands.  When the circle is a mangled knot, call, “Doctor!  Doctor!”  The doctor then comes in and tries to unravel the knot without unlinking any hands, to make them become a circle facing inward again.