Bible Exploration - Workshop: COOKING Center

Month: March Bible Story: Noah & The Ark

Year (B): 1 Scripture: Genesis 6 - 9 "The Rainbow and the Covenant"

Bible Memory Verse: Genesis 9:13 "I am putting a bow in the clouds, it will be a sign of my covenant with the world."

Workshop	Concept	Teacher
1. Temple/Art Center	How we care for the planet/our covenant.
2. Video Center	The need for the covenant.
3. Computer Center	Signs of the Covenant
4. Cooking Center	Covenant - God's Care for Us

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

• The children will be able to retell the story of the Great Flood.

• The children will be able to tell the meaning of the rainbow.

• The children will be able to tell that the story of Noah comes from the first book of the Old Testament - Genesis

• The children will know that God is faithful to all humanity.

• The children will know that God cares for all God's creatures and expects people to also.

MATERIALS:

¨ Memory verse to hand out

¨ Graham crackers

¨ Icing

¨ Cardboard cake tray

¨ Food coloring

¨ Animal cookies

PLAN:

¨ Welcome children

¨ Make ark scene and put animals on the ark

¨ Discuss how God cares for us and the animals

¨ How does God care for you?

¨ Your family? Etc.

ADAPTATIONS:

Children:	Older children:
• For younger children be careful of the language • be sure they understand what words mean.	• Use more difficult discussion questions

NOAH AND THE ARK

COOKING CENTER

I. OPENING:

1. Allow the Mentors to take roll and offering

2. Welcome - welcome the students -- introduce yourself and ask the children to introduce themselves. (Make sure adults participate)

3. Have opening prayer:

II. GO OVER MEMORY VERSE: "I am putting a bow in the clouds, it will be a sign of my covenant with the world." (Genesis 9:13)

III. DISCUSS QUESTIONS:

• God is grieved about man's sin.

• God cares for us even as he did Noah.

• God instructs Noah to build the ark out of Cypress wood. Make rooms in the ark and cover it with pitch inside and out. It was to be 450 long -- 75 feet wide. It was to have 3 floors with a door on the side and a window near the top.

• How does God give us instructions today?

• How does God speak to us?

• How does God care for us?

• What was the Covenant God made with Noah?

• When we see the rainbow, does it remind us that the covenant we still have with God?

GRAHAM CRACKER ARK

TO PREPARE PIECES FOR ARK:

Bend 1/2 graham cracker by wrapping in damp paper towel. Place in microwave until very hot (15-30 seconds.) Remove from microwave and place around plastic cup. Hold until cool. Remove paper towel and set graham cracker out to dry.

To cut out door and rounded sections wrap graham cracker in damp paper towel. Heat in microwave until hot. When you have removed from oven unwrap and cut while still hot.

MORTAR:

1 /2 CUP PEANUT BUTTER

1 1/2 CUPS XXXX SUGAR

2 TABLESPOONS MARGARINE Beat until well blended. If needed you may add more sugar or peanut butter.

Begin by gluing a full graham cracker to a cake board. I used melted chocolate to hold in place. That way the children can eat everything except the rainbow. On each side of the floor, using the mortar stand up the back and a front to which you have cut the door.

Next place a stack of 5 small pieces graham crackers at each end of bottom, using mortar to hold everything in place. This helps to support the top deck.

Next place piece that has rounded end on top of stacked graham crackers. Sample: Looking from top add 1 /2 graham cracker to hold roof. I used melted chocolate to make roof . You can make these ahead of time and the chocolate will have set up.

Decorate with animal crackers and green coconut for grass. Also I used melted chocolate to hold a marshmallow at the back of cake board. Place Popsicle stick with paper rainbow with bible verse written on it. (The only thing children couldn't eat.)