FHE Lesson: The Creation

Primary 1, Lesson 14
Old Testament Stories, 2, Jesus Makes the Earth

1.  Sing a song about the creation (anything about the world and you).  You can look in the "Children's Songbook" published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under "Creation" and find ten songs listed there.

2. Choose A or B to do with your children.

A. Tell the story after your children have colored the picture found at The Creation.  This is a quick lesson for small children probably ages 18 months to 3 years old.  You can also use some of the coloring pages or any where else on this page.

B.  At: The Creation- Each Day A Gift has a flannel board story to help you teach the creation to your family.  Use the below lesson to go along with the flannel board story so your children can participate more in the lesson or have them draw their own pictures to go with each day.

Heavenly Father told Jesus to make this earth.

(Note: For the pictures, you might need to reduce the size of them.  You can have your children draw their own.)

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

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

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

Fourth Day
Have your children color the moon.  (He created the sun, moon, and stars.)  Have your children place the sun, moon, and stars on a piece of white paper.  Genesis 1:14-19.

Fifth Day
Have the children color the top half of a piece of white paper sky blue and the bottom half dark blue. (Jesus created [made] fowl (birds) and fish or fish @ lds.org.) Have the children glue the fish on the bottom part of the number and the birds on the top part of the number.  Genesis 1:20-23.

Sixth Day
Have your children color a piece of white paper green. Have the children glue animals on the colored green paper. (Jesus created [made] animals @ lds.org.  He also created male and female in the image (like) of Our Heavenly Father.)   Genesis 1:24-31.

Seventh Day
Have your children color a piece of white paper any color. (On the last day, Jesus did not make anything, he rested because it was Sunday (the Sabbath). What do we do on Sunday? We go to church, read the scriptures, pray at church, etc.)  Genesis 2:1-3.
Christy's Primary Art: Ward Building (or draw your own).

OTHER COLORING PAGES
Funstuf: In the Beginning A crossword with a creation wheel.
Gratitude for God's Creations (a pioneer picture wheel)

3. If your children are still interested or if you would only like to play a game about the creation, play one or both of these games.

A.  Play the New Testament Animal Matchup Game found in the August 1999 issue and/or the Book of Mormon Animal Matchup game found in the July 2000 issue of "The Friend".

If you do not receive "The Friend", find some pictures of animals from magazines or off the internet and cut quite a few animals out of them. Go to my coloring pages I listed above. For example, horse, pig, cow, bird, frog, camel, bear, fish, cat, dog, etc. At the neck of the animal, cut the body off. Glue the pictures you have found on light weight cardboard or poster board. You can laminate the game pieces, cover them with thick sticky plastic, or place the xeroxed page in a plastic paper sheet cover. If you do not want the pieces to fall off while playing, put a sticky pieces of velcro on the top or side part of the animal game piece (on the front and back of each matching piece). Make sure there is enough room so you do not cover the animal.  I do have links to animal pictures located at Animal Themes.

Rules of the game: Place the game pieces on a table or the floor and when it is your child's turn, have them place the correct head to the body. Follow these instructions until all the animals have been matched with the other part of their body. If the child wants to do it again, play the game again.

B. The Creation Game

Gather your family in a circle to play this game.  Give each child a chance to answer what Jesus created for them.

The Third Day: Grass, Flowers, Trees, Fruit, and Herbs

For younger children:
Name some fruit Jesus created (made) for us?

For older children:
Name some plants and trees Jesus created for us? Name some trees Jesus created for us? Name some fruit Jesus created for us?  Name some herbs Jesus created for us?

The Fifth Day: Fish and Fowl
Name some fish Jesus created (made) for us?  Name some fowl (birds) Jesus created (made) for us?

The Sixth Day: Animals
Name some animals Jesus created (made) for us?