Creation: Days Five and Six

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1 Unit 1 BEAR 5 HUG Creation: Days Five and Six Memory Seed: Genesis 1:31: God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good (Short version is in bold.) The Big Apple: On Day Five, God made water and sky animals. On Day Six, He made land animals. Everything He made was very good. SOW THE SEEDS Read: Psalm 62:11; Psalm 147:5; Genesis 1:20-25 Memorize: Genesis 1:31 God created a perfectly ordered world. By His power, He filled the water with fish and the skies with birds. Each and every bird, fish and animal was fully developed and able to reproduce life after its own kind. Our loving God gave us plants, trees, birds, fish and animals for our enjoyment. His creation sustains our lives and provides for our physical needs. But His power goes further than that. He is also the only One with the power to provide for our spiritual needs. He offers salvation (John 3:16). He offers us forgiveness (Ephesians 1:7). He offers us an eternal home in heaven (Romans 6:23). Every spiritual need will be met by the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the Bread of Life (John 6:48), and He is the Living Water (John 4:10). Thank You, Lord! Your Cubbies are becoming aware of the larger world outside their homes. Many of them attend preschool or spend their days in some type of child-care program. Others watch a lot of television. Already they may have heard that the world just happened a long time ago. Be intentional in emphasizing creation. Sing creation praise songs. Emphasize God as Creator whether you re teaching a lesson or just watching a bird on a branch outside the window. Encourage parents to take walks with their children and talk about God s creation. Pray that the Holy Spirit would work through this lesson so Cubbies: 1. Learn that God created the water and sky animals on Day Five. He created the land animals on Day Six. 2. Display awe for God s unique nature: Only God can fi ll the earth with sound and life. Only He can make the unique and creative features of each animal. 3. Use their fi ve senses to explore and appreciate the way God has made the animals. 4. Believe that everything God created was good. Everything worked just right (Add the goals the Holy Spirit brings to your mind and heart as you pray for Cubbies.) The world is intentional with their anti-creation message. We need to intentionally give the glory to our powerful Creator Awana Clubs International This page may be reproduced only by churches registered with Awana. 60

2 COMING IN (10-15 minutes before club officially starts) IDEA 1: Animal Masks Cubbie Bear, Luvie Lamb and Katie Collie paper masks (resource CD; print on card stock) Scissors Hole punch Yarn Tape Optional Mount each mask to a jumbo craft stick instead of using yarn. Let each child choose an animal character mask to color and wear. Cubbies or a leader can cut out the masks. Leaders should cut out the eye holes along the dotted lines, punch holes in the sides of the mask (reinforce with tape), and thread yarn through the holes to fit it around the Cubbie s head. Cubbies can wear the masks during Play Time or Going Home. Cubbies who finish masks early can play with animal puzzles. IDEA 2: Creation Book: Day Five Creation Book: Day Five page for each Cubbie (resource CD) Dark and light blue or orange watercolor paint Paintbrushes Cups of water for dipping brushes Glue sticks (if not using stickers) Construction paper Optional Instead of painting, let Cubbies fi ll the page with pre-cut birds and fi sh (resource CD) or fi sh stickers and craft feathers for birds. Mount (or let Cubbies mount) the Day Five page on construction paper. Show Cubbies how to make a simple fish shape:. Let them trace the fish and use crayons to draw several more fish in the water portion of the page. Show Cubbies how to make V shapes for birds:. Let them trace the bird and draw several more birds in the sky portion. (However, explain that some birds, like ducks or swans, swim in the water too.) For extra fun, let Cubbies paint the sea dark blue and the sky light blue or orange, like a sunset sky. The paint will only stick to the non-colored areas of the paper, so the birds and fish will be visible. Review that God made the fish and birds on Day Five. Idea 3: Cubbie Zoo Card stock or construction paper cutouts of fi sh, birds and other animals (enlarge and use patterns on the resource CD) Materials to decorate animals, such as tissue squares, foil, feathers, felt and other textured fabrics Glue Sticker eyes (which look like wiggle eyes but are fl at stickers) Let Cubbies color and glue various decorations on the animal cutouts. Show them how to draw a simple face on the animal and where to put the sticker eyes. Use the animals as lesson visuals or decorate your room with them. For example, hang fish in a space on your wall labeled Cubbies Aquarium. Hang land animals and birds in a space labeled Cubbies Zoo. You can also hang birds from the ceiling. Thank God together for making such a variety of animals for us to enjoy. Repeat Genesis 1:31. STARTING TIME (3-5 minutes) Continue the starting routine you have established. Include the Cubbies Song, Cubbies key verse, Cubbies motto and the A and C verses along with your favorite visuals, songs and motions. Review the unit Core Truth: God Is Creator. 61

3 PUPPET SHOW (3-5 minutes) Cubbie Bear puppet Luvie Lamb puppet Pumpkin hat for Luvie to wear (resource CD) (Beforehand, fi t the pumpkin hat on Luvie s head.) LEADER: Last week, Cubbie told us about the time when he and Timothy planted pumpkin seeds. I wonder if the seeds ever grew. Let s ask Cubbie. One two three. CUBBIE! (After children call out, bring the Cubbie puppet into view, hopping excitedly.) LEADER: Hi, Cubbie! You seem excited as usual. What are you doing today? CUBBIE (still hopping slightly): I m going to the petting zoo to see some of my animal friends! LEADER: That sounds fun! Who are some of your animal friends? CUBBIE: Well, there s Luvie Lamb, of course. And Hattie Hen. Hattie gave us an idea when our pumpkin seeds weren t growing. LEADER: Oh? What was her idea? CUBBIE: Hattie always sits on her eggs to help her baby chicks grow. She told Timothy that it might help his seeds grow too! So Timothy and I sat on the pumpkin seed hill for hours and hours. LEADER (chuckling): Did it work? CUBBIE: No. But then I thought of a new idea. I said, Why don t we sing to the seeds? LEADER (confused): Sing? CUBBIE: Yes, why not? Maybe the seeds like music. I told Timothy to sing my favorite song you know, that Cubbies song you all sing every week! Will you ask the Cubbies to sing it for me? LEADER (to Cubbies): Will you all sing our Cubbies song for Cubbie right now? (Lead the kids in singing the theme song together. Cubbie should hop to the beat while kids sing.) CUBBIE: Right after Timothy stopped singing that song, we saw a small pumpkin bouncing along above the bushes! LEADER (looking at Cubbies, with a surprised face): Pumpkins don t bounce over bushes, do they? What is Cubbie talking about? (Bring Luvie Lamb into view, wearing the hat and giggling.) CUBBIE: It was Luvie Lamb! She was skipping behind the bush with her pumpkin hat on. LUVIE (giggling): I thought I d play a silly joke on Cubbie and Timothy to make them laugh. LEADER: You made all of us laugh, Luvie! Did Timothy let you stay out of the petting zoo that day? LUVIE: Yes, he said I could help with the pumpkins for a little while. I like my friends in the petting zoo, but I like to get out and play with Timothy and Cubbie too. LEADER: Who are some of your friends at the petting zoo, Luvie? LUVIE: We ll there s Alphie Alpaca. He and I like to play tag. There s Gary Goose. But he s always thinking about food. My family lives there too. When we talk to each other, we always say Baa, baa, baa! LEADER (laughing): I m glad you and Cubbie have so many great animal friends. And we re glad to know a lamb and a bear like you. CUBBIE: Thanks, and next time I ll fi nally tell you what happened with the pumpkin seeds. The story has a very happy ending. Bye for now. LUVIE: Baa, baa, baa! Bye! (Children wave goodbye as puppets are put away Awana Clubs International This page may be reproduced only by churches registered with Awana.

4 SNACKS (5-10 minutes) Snacks are optional and can be done at any time during the club meeting. IDEA 1: Animal or Fish Crackers Cup or napkin-full of animal or fi sh crackers for each Cubbie Before you eat, thank God for His great power. Only He could make the animals alive; only He could make so many different kinds of animals. Let children name the animals as they eat them or count the fi sh. IDEA 2: Animal food Assortment of food items that both animals and people like to eat (e.g., bring in lettuce for hamsters, bananas for monkeys, tuna fi sh for sharks) Ask Cubbies to guess what animal would eat each snack you are serving. Let them pretend to be that animal as they eat the snack. Ask: On what day did God make this animal? Was God pleased with this animal when He made it? How do you know? Repeat Genesis 1:31. SONGS (3-5 minutes) Songs can be done before or after Lesson Time. SING: My God Is So Big or He s Got the Whole World in His Hands A favorite animal song for kids, such as Old MacDonald Had a Farm or The Butterfly Song. End the song by saying, God created animals! God Created with two new verses. (See prior Bear Hugs.) In the next Bear Hug, you will add Adam and Eve to Day Six. God created (Cubbies echo.) Birds and fi sh (Cubbies echo.) (Hold up fi ve fi ngers.) That was on the fi fth day. (Cubbies echo and copy your motion.) It was good! (Smile and hold one thumb up. Let Cubbies echo and copy you.) God created (Cubbies echo.) Animals on land (Cubbies echo.) (Hold up six fi ngers.) That was on the sixth day. (Cubbies echo and copy your motion.) It was good! (Smile and hold one thumb up. Let Cubbies echo and copy you.) PRAYER (1-2 minutes) (Guide Cubbies in sharing prayer requests before Lesson Time this week.) Cubbies, God created the whole world, so He is surely strong enough to help us. For example, we can pray and ask for God s help when we are learning something new, like reading or riding a bike. Is anyone learning something new? What are you learning? Can we pray for you? (Keep in mind that many children, and adults too, have trouble understanding why God doesn t grant every request. Teach Cubbies that we must always pray for what God wants. He knows what s best. See 1 John 5:14.) 63

5 LESSON TIME (15-20 minutes) Teaching Cards (TC) 21-23, Bible with bookmarks placed at Genesis 1:20-25 and Genesis 1:31 Optional Play-Doh or a drawing of an animal, bag of plastic toy animals, photos of animals, audio sounds of animals (Adapt and personalize the words of this lesson so it fi ts you and your Cubbies.) TIP: If your church has Awana Puggles, borrow some of the teaching cards as animal photos for this lesson. Cubbie and Luvie Lamb have lots of animal friends. Do you remember some of their animal friends from the petting zoo? (Hattie Hen, Alphie Alpaca, Gary Goose, Luvie s family). What other animals might you see at a petting zoo? (Chicks, ducks, geese, rabbits, sheep, goats, calves, roosters, ponies, etc. For extra fun, make each animal s sound together when the children name it.) Cubbies, who made the chicks and the rabbits and the goats? (Adapt this section to talk about the animals that your Cubbies actually mentioned.) Yes, God made them. God made all the animals. I wonder how did God make a chick? I think that would be hard, don t you? You d have to make its cute little beak and cover it with fuzzy feathers. How did He make a billy goat? You d have to know how to make two horns and a funny beard that hangs down. You d also have to know something else this would be hardest of all. You d have to make the chicks and the billy goat ALIVE. I might be able to draw a chick on paper or shape a billy goat from clay, but I can t make them open their eyes or breathe or move and make sounds. Optional: Show the Cubbies a picture you drew of an animal or shape an animal from Play-Doh as you talk. Ask the children if the animal is alive. Pretend to breathe into the animal and ask again. Stress that only God can make an animal come alive. Optional: Let Cubbies take turns pulling out plastic animals from a bag. Talk briefl y about each animal and make a sound or motion like the animal. Ask the children if the animals in your bag are alive and explain that only God could make a real animal. I can t do it. You can t do it. But let s fi nd out how God did it! (Open your Bible to Genesis 1: Keep the Bible visible while you teach.) I m going to tell you a true story from the book of Genesis in the Bible. Remember, everything in the Bible really happened. You can believe it! We already know the fi rst part of Genesis. (Display TC23.) God is Creator. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1). (Review the fi rst four days of creation as you display TC21, 22, Set TC25 aside because you will display it again. Direct Cubbies to hold up the right number of fi ngers for each day.) God saw the things He had made, and it was good. (Display TC25 again. Point to items as you talk about them.) What a beautiful place God created! A sky that stretches high and wide. A clear blue sea, with gentle waves. Shady trees, soft green grass and fl owers in so many colors. But guess what? The earth was still so very quiet. Listen (whisper, holding a fi nger to your lips and making the room as quiet as you can), do you hear any bluebirds singing? Do you hear any dolphins splashing in the water? Any frogs croaking? Any horses saying neigh? (Listen to the quiet for a few seconds.) No, we would not hear any of those sounds. Why not? (Let children answer.) That s right! God hadn t created the bluebirds, dolphins, frogs or horses yet. Cubbies, listen again. I m going to tell you how God made the animals. On Day Five, God said: Let the water be fi lled with living creatures. (Display TC27. Point to and name some of the various water animals.) God saw the water animals He had made, and it was good. Next, God said, Let winged creatures fl y across the sky! (Display TC27 pointing to the birds. Name some of the birds you see.) God saw continued on next page 64

6 continued from previous page all the birds He had created, and it was good. Cubbies, is that ALL the animals God created? Did He only create the birds and the water animals? (Let Cubbies respond.) What animals are missing from our picture? (Let Cubbies name animals that don t fl y or live in the water.) On Day Six, God said, Let the land be fi lled with all kinds of animals. (Display TC28. Point to and name some of the different land animals.) Farm animals, forest animals, jungle animals, pet animals and even creepy, crawly animals like spiders: God made them all, and it was good. Optional: Bring large photos of animals or display them on a digital device. Find photos in books, at a teacher store or on the Internet. Describe the animals together: appearance, habitat, food, sounds, quirks, etc. Express praise and wonder about the way God has uniquely and wisely designed each animal. Optional: Play bird and marine animal sounds when you talk about Day Five. Play jungle or forest animal sounds when you talk about Day Six. Many stores sell nature CDs or you can download free sound effects from the Internet. Cubbies, God is Creator. He made animals for the water, sky and land. Guess what else God did? He told the animals to have baby animals so there would be lots of them in the water, sky and land. God was so happy with all He had made. Everything looked just right. Everything worked just right. Wait a minute! I left out something else that God created on Day Six. Does anyone know what I left out? (Allow response.) Next week we will talk about God s most special creation of all people, like you and me! (Open your Bible to Genesis 1:31.) After God created the world and the animals and the fi rst two people, God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good (Genesis 1:31) That s our verse for this week, Cubbies! Let s say it together. (Practice the verse several times and close in prayer.) HANDBOOK TIME (15-30 minutes) Give each handbook group leader a copy of Bear Hug 5 Handbook Leader Sheet from the resource CD. IDEA 1: Bear Hug 5 Activity Sheet Bear Hug 5 Activity Sheet for each Cubbie Optional Play-Doh and plastic animals or animal cookie cutters Explain that God created the animals, and He gave each of them a special place to live. Cubbies may complete some or all of the instructions listed on the bottom of the activity sheet. If Cubbies fi nish early, let them shape an animal and a home for that animal from Play-Doh. They could also make animal shapes with cookie cutters or fl atten the dough and walk plastic animals over the dough to see various animal tracks. IDEA 2: Creation Book: Day Six Creation Book: Day Six page for each Cubbie (resource CD) Pre-cut pictures of various land animals (resource CD) Glue sticks Construction paper for mounting pages Optional Cubbies could use animal rubber stamps, animal stickers or animal shapes in different fabric textures to decorate the page. (If necessary, allow Cubbies to fi rst fi nish the Day Five book page from Coming In. There will be time to complete the Day Six page next week.) Cubbies can glue various animals onto the page and color the page. Cubbies will add Adam and Eve to this page next week, so direct them not to paste animals over the outlines of Adam and Eve. Collect the Cubbies pages and store them in the appropriate fi le folders. 65

7 PLAY TIME (15-20 minutes) Play your favorite game from prior lessons with adaptations. Here are some examples: For the Mrs. Midnight game, tell Cubbies to take steps like a certain animal. When they hear Midnight! they mimic the animal as they all run back to the starting line and begin the game again. GOING HOME (5-10 minutes) Hang a whiteboard near your Cubbies room door or set it on an easel and use it to write important announcements for parents. For Land and Sea, direct Cubbies to move like their favorite land animal when they jump to the land side of the line. When they jump to the sea side they can swim like a stingray, shark or other sea creature. For Seeds and Sprouts, let Cubbies crouch and pretend to be a baby version of an animal. When you say mommy duck (or another kind of animal) they can pop up as a louder, bigger version of the animal. Hang up animal pictures or masks instead of a sun, moon and stars. Give clues about an animal, and when Cubbies guess the animal, they run to it. Bounce stuffed animals on the parachute Awana Clubs International This page may be reproduced only by churches registered with Awana.

8 God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good (Genesis 1:31) NAME: Basic Instructions: Draw a line in each pathway to bring the animal to its home. If an animal fl ies in the sky, draw a red line. If the animal lives on land, draw a green line. If the animal swims in water, draw a blue line. Even More Fun: Color the animals and their homes. Tell someone about your favorite animals. Ultimate Fun: Shape an animal and its home from Play-Doh. Unit 1: BH Awana Clubs International This page may be reproduced only by churches registered with Awana.