Day 1
We ended Genesis 7, and now we are starting Genesis 8! In preparation for the lessons to come, let’s read all of Genesis 8 to your Tiny Arrows!
Day 2
How do you think the rain started to go down? Did God pull a big plug and it all drained into the ocean? No! He sent a wind! Today let’s read Genesis 8:1 then grab a cup, bowl or bucket of water and start blowing! See how the wind can move the water the direction it is going! God even moved the water in the direction it was suppose to go. Now grab something that floats on the water and put it on the surface. Blow again! The object moved! This means that where the ark started out is not where it’s going to end up!
But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. – Genesis 8:1 NIV
Day 3
When the had flood started the water came from above and below. God stopped the rain from coming down from heaven and He stopped the rain from bursting from the ground! Today let’s read Genesis 8:2 and go outside and find a drain. The water goes down the drains, but what if it started coming out! Now let’s look up! We know that the rain comes from the clouds!
Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky. – Genesis 8:2 NIV
Day 4
The water from the flood slowly went down. Today let’s read Genesis 8:3 and fill our sink or tub with some water and put a stopper on the water so it cannot go down right away. Ask your Tiny Arrow that when the water goes down and drains, does it go fast for slow? Slow! Now unplug the drain. There was a lot of water from the flood, so it was going to take a long time to drain!
The water receded steadily from the earth. – Genesis 8:3 NIV
Day 5
The waters from the flood were going down! The ark even landed on some mountains! Today let’s read Genesis 8:3-4 as we color the ark on the mountains!
At the end of one hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. – Genesis 8:3-4 NIV
Day 6
The ark rested on the mountains, but Noah still could not see where the boat was! He had to wait 3 months to see where the boat docked! Today let’s read Genesis 8:5 and pick up our Tiny Arrows and have them close their eyes. (If they are barefoot, they might do this better). Carry them to a couch, bed, counter or wherever is best, then have them place their feet on the surface and guess where you brought them! Did they guess right? Noah did not leave the ark to see where they landed, do you think he could tell where he was?
The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible. – Genesis 8:5 NIV
Day 7
Noah was trying to see if the land was dry, so he sent out a raven to fly around and check it out! Today let’s read Genesis 8:6-7 and make a raven puppet! Color and cut out the bird then tape it to a popsicle stick. Once it is done, have your Tiny Arrow fly the bird around while he is trying to find a place to land!
After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. – Genesis 8:6-7 NIV
Day 8
First Noah sent out a raven to find dry ground, then he sent out a dove! Today let’s read Genesis 8:8-9 and make a dove puppet similar to how you made the raven puppet! Then fly the dove around as well, trying to find a place to land! Save this puppet for the next lesson!
Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. – Genesis 8:8-9 NIV
Day 9
Noah waited 7 more days then he sent out the dove again! Today let’s read Genesis 8:10-12 and grab some tape and your dove puppet from the previous lesson. Bring the dove puppet outside and try to find a place to land. Then have your Tiny Arrow pick a leaf and tape it to the bird’s beak!
He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him. – Genesis 8:10-12 NIV
Day 10
For the next few lessons we are focusing on a calendar. Today let’s grab a calendar and go through the months of the year. Then let’s watch and sing a song about the 12 months of the year! You can watch the one below, or find your own!
Day 11
The water was beginning to dry up! Today let’s print out the calendar then read Genesis 7:11. (We are going to stick with our months for this, and use this for a future lesson too). On Feb 17, have your Tiny Arrow color it blue or draw a rain drop! Then read Genesis 8:13 and on Jan 1, color it green or draw land!
By the first day of the month of Noah’s sixth hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. – Genesis 8:13
In the sixth hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth. – Genesis 7:11 NIV
Day 12
Noah had sent two birds out to see if the water had gone down and if the land was dry. Now he had to see for himself if the ground was dry! Today let’s read Genesis 8:13 and grab a blanket and toy or colored paper. Put the blanket over your child so they cannot see, then ask them what you are holding. The color or the name of the toy. Then have your child take the blanket off. Did they get it right? Noah had to take his protective roof off too to see!
Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. – Genesis 8:13 NIV
Day 13
By the 27th day of the second month, the land was finally dry! Yay! Today let’s read Genesis 8:14 and grab our calendar coloring page and find February 27. Then color the square in green or draw land. Now count how many days it was from the first green square! It took that many days for the land to be completely dry!
By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry. – Genesis 8:14 NIV
Day 14
Do you think Noah wanted to leave the ark the minute he saw the land was dry? Would you have wanted to leave the ark after being in there for over a year? But Noah waited! Noah had to wait for God to say he could come out, remember God had shut the door in the first place! If God put us somewhere, we should stand our ground until he tells us to move! Today let’s read Genesis 8:15-17 then play Red Light, Green Light!
Then God said to Noah, “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.” – Genesis 8:15-17 NIV
Day 15
God told Noah he could come out of the ark with all his family and all the animals and they did! Today let’s read Genesis 8:18-19 and color the coloring page!
So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another. – Genesis 8:18-19 NIV
Day 16
Let’s remember how many clean animals were on the ark and how many unclean! 7 pairs of clean animals and 1 pair of unclean animals! That’s 14 clean and 2 unclean. Today let’s read Genesis 8:20 as we color the sheep. There was only 14 sheep in the whole world and Noah sacrificed some to God! That’s how much he loved him! He took care of those 14 sheep for over a year and now he was giving them back to God because they survived! That’s how much he loved him and wanted to thank him!
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. – Genesis 8:20 NIV
Day 17
God smelled the sacrifice Noah made for him, and he liked it! He liked it so much He promised He would never flood the earth again! Today let’s read Genesis 8:21 and ask your Tiny Arrows to point to the part of their body that they can sense smells from! The nose! Ask them what they smell now, and what they like to smell. Then go around the house and see if they can smell different things. Was there anything they liked best? The soap? Perfume?
The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.” – Genesis 8:21 NIV
Day 18
God said that as long as earth would endure there would be seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter and day and night! Today let’s read Genesis 8:22 then let’s color the page and match the opposites!
“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” – Genesis 8:22 NIV
Day 19
Today let’s reread Genesis 8 and remember the activities and verses we learned!