Leader:

Hello, everybody! This is the day that God has made, and God sees that it is good! Today I have a glorious story to share with you. It is the very first story from the Bible, from the book of Genesis (hold ​the Bible up for all the children to see and open to Genesis). It is a story about God’s creation.

Narrator:

“In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters.”

Leader:

Let’s wave our arms back and forth and blow like the wind. (Leader and children do the motions.)

Narrator:

“Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.”

Leader:

Ooh, that light is bright; let’s put on our sunglasses. (Leader and children pretend to put on their sunglasses.)

Narrator:

“God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.”

Leader:

(Hold up one finger for the first day. For each “evening” and “morning” throughout, leader and children act as if going to sleep and then waking up.)

Narrator:

“And God said, ‘Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.’ So God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome. And it was so. God called the dome Sky.”

Leader:

Let’s stretch out our hands and reach for the skies. (Leader and children do the motions.)

Narrator:

“And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.”

Leader:

(Hold up two fingers for the second day; do sleep and wake-up motions.)

Narrator:

“And God said, ‘Let the waters under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.’ And it was so. God called the dry land Earth . . .”

Leader:

(Leader and children flatten hands and spread them as if flattening land.)

​Narrator:

“And the waters that were gathered together he called Seas.”

Leader:

(Wave hands up and down.)

All:

“And God saw that it was good.” (From here on, say, “And God saw that it was good,” with the narrator.)

Narrator:

“Then God said, ‘Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it.’ And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation: plants yielding seed of every kind, and trees of every kind bearing fruit with the seed in it.”

Leader:

Mmmm . . . let’s grab some broccoli, carrots, and spinach. Let’s pick some apples and oranges from these trees. (Leader and children pretend to pick the vegetables and fruit.)

All:

“And God saw that it was good.”

Narrator:

“And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.”

Leader:

(Hold up three fingers for the third day. Sleep/wake motions.)

Narrator:

“And God said, ‘Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years, and let them be lights in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth.’ And it was so. ”

Leader:

Who can show me the sun shining brightly? Good thing we have our sunglasses on!

All:

“And God saw that it was good.”

Narrator:

“And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.”

Leader:

(Hold up four fingers for day four. Sleep/wake motions.)

Narrator:

“And God said, ‘Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the dome of the sky.’ ”

Leader:

Let’s flap our wings, fly, and look down on God’s creation. (Leader and children act it out.)

​Narrator:

“So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, of every kind, with which the waters swarm, and every winged bird of every kind.”

Leader:

Let me see some sharks, dolphins, whales, frogs, and crabs. (Leader and children act it out.)

All:

“And God saw that it was good.”

Narrator:

“God blessed them, saying, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.’ And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.”

Leader:

(Hold up five fingers for day five. Sleep/wake motions.)

Narrator:

“And God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind.’ And it was so. God made the wild animals of the earth of every kind, and the cattle of every kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground of every kind.”

Leader:

Let me see all the different land animals, like tigers, giraffes, lions, bears, squirrels, cows, and pigs. (Leader and children act it out.)

All:

“And God saw that it was good.”

Narrator:

“Then God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.’ So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them.”

Leader:

(While the narrator is saying the previous lines, point to yourself and one another for humankind.)

All:

“And God saw that it was good.”

Narrator:

“And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.”

Leader:

(Hold up six fingers for day six. Sleep/wake motions.)

​Narrator:

“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their multitude. And on the seventh day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation.”

Leader:

(Fold arms on chest and appear satisfied with a big sigh, sit down, and rest!)

Leader:

Isn’t the story of Creation wonderful? I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did! It reminds us of how everything was made, and that God is all around us. Let us have a prayer and give thanks for all creation, asking God to help us take care of it. (Prayer)