Noah's Ark - Love God, Love People - Nothing Else Matters

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How old was Noah when he entered the ark? (600 years) How old was Noah when he left the ark? (601 years) Why do you think God waited until Noah was 600 years old to send the flood? Allow kids to respond. Just like Noah, we sometimes wonder about God’s timing. I’m sure Noah wondered why God waited until he was 600 to send the flood, and why he spent a year on the ark with all of those animals, but God knew why. God’s timing is perfect. We’re going to put on a skit where timing is important! Activate Faith (25 minutes) Days of Noah’s Life Set Up: • Place the paper, boxes, streamers, bag, and supplies where kids can create with them. • Set the costumes, props, and instruments where kids can choose among them. • Hang a bedsheet backdrop to designate a stage area. • Make several copies of the serial drama script. Activity Instructions Before the serial drama: How many of you are familiar with serial dramas or soap operas? Allow kids to respond to this and the following questions. If you were to tell Noah’s story as a serial drama, how would it look? Let’s do a quick exercise to get you warmed up! Invite the kids to join in making the following facial expressions. • Surprise— Pretend there is a monkey in your living room. • Concern— Think, “Did I leave the stove on when I left home?” • Sadness— What if your dog, cat, and goldfish all died on the same day? • Excitement— Pretend there are 50 Christmas presents with your name on them! • Invite volunteers to play the parts of God, Noah, Noah’s wife, Noah’s kids, animals, and narrator. Give each volunteer a script. Look through the costumes and props to see what might work for your character. Animals, choose a stuffed animal that you will represent. You will actually hold and become an extension of that animal. Read through your parts, and ask questions if you have them. Practice making dramatic facial expressions and movements in front of each other. Spark Resources Spark Bibles Spark Bible Stickers Supplies Chart paper Mural paper Large cardboard boxes Crepe paper streamers Large bag Tape Markers Scissors Bible time costumes Sandals Beard Fabric pieces Stuffed animals Rhythm instruments Bedsheet Days of Noah’s Life—Serial Drama Script (page 95) Hourglass (optional) 88 — Workshop Leader Guides Creative Drama Workshop, Noah’s Ark Rotation Leader Guide. Spark Sunday School © 2010 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. May be reproduced for local use only.
• • • Recruit a group of kids to be the stage crew. Give the crew copies of the script. What will the set look like? Remember to include an ark, a rainbow, and a large calendar. What other props might be fun to include? Decide who will make what. Use any supplies that might be helpful. Figure out if there will be any changes to the set during the serial drama. Have one or two volunteers create sound effects for the serial drama. Give the volunteers copies of the script. Invite them to explore the instruments. When does it make sense to add a sound effect to the story? What kind of sounds will you make to add interest to the drama? (Optional) Encourage a couple of kids to develop a short commercial to act out in between the scenes of the serial drama. What type of a product would have appealed to Noah? (animal feed, air freshener, flood insurance, etc.) Create a prop and short sales pitch for your product! Perform the serial drama: Gather the kids near the stage area. Have the actors take their places either on stage or to one side. Ask the narrator to stand on the other side of the stage. Direct the sound and stage crew to be ready with their sounds and props. Ask all a the rest of the kids to take a seat in the audience. It had been many years since God created the earth. The people were all evil except for one man, Noah. This is a story about that man. Get ready to watch and listen because these are the Days of Noah’s Life! Following the serial drama: Gather the kids to debrief the story. What surprised you about the Noah story? Allow kids to answer this and the following questions. What happened to all of the people and animals who weren’t on the ark? (they died) Direct kids to read Genesis 6:7-8 on page 7 of the Spark Bible. Invite kids to mark the passage with a Makes Me Feel, Something I Like, or Something I Don’t Like Spark Bible Sticker, using a pencil to mark their response in the margin. How do we know it was the right time for God to blot out creation and start over? (God’s timing is perfect.) What did God put in the sky as a reminder never to flood the entire earth again? (rainbow) Like Noah, we don’t always know why we have to wait for God to do something, but we do know God’s timing is perfect. Creative Drama Workshop, Noah’s Ark Rotation Leader Guide. Spark Sunday School © 2010 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. May be reproduced for local use only. Noah’s Ark — 89 CREATIVE DRAMA
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