This post offers you an easy hands-on Adam and Eve craft that is based completely on Bible stories. The resource type that is shared below is an outline or a lesson plan. I wrote an in-depth explanation of a group craft for your kids’ ministry or Sunday school about the story of Adam and Eve. The craft also comes with detailed instructions for easy classroom use. The same craft can definitely be utilized for personal use for at-home Bible study with your kids.
In the kids’ ministry that I led, we scheduled creative days once every few weeks that we called a “craft bomb”. It was our way of wrapping up a lesson series and it helped the kids to recognize a change in rhythm, breaking pattern before we moved on to the new theme.
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Introduction to this kind of craft – for facilitators
Play-based crafts like this one are great for cementing a story in a child’s memory. A group activity is a great way to build bridges among your group and break the ice a little. People are surprised when they learn that even young kids can be quite cliquey and keep to themselves, kids they already know, or their siblings. I’ve seen this time and time again, even in a church setting.
That is why this interactive Adam and Eve puzzle Bible craft is the perfect addition to your curriculum or lesson plans. This story is one of your most primary Scripture lessons. It is a foundational story that paves the way for other great additions down the line. A lot of different morals or lessons have been drawn from the story of Adam and Eve. The most popular is perhaps doing another lesson about making good choices. Today, we will focus on something a little different to offer a new idea: teamwork.
Teamwork matters in your Sunday school or kids’ ministry group because it matters to God. Our God is often described as communal in nature. The Trinity is a great example of this attribute of God or the relationship that Jesus had with the Father. Perhaps the best example of how we can step out from under the yoke of individuality is found in the whole of Romans 12.
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“For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. (Romans 12)
Introducing the Adam & Eve craft to the kids:
Mini Eden lesson with Adam and Eve story
Deep inside the Garden of Eden, God was standing and admiring all He’s made so far. The beautiful garden had been taking shape for the past few days of Creation. A great story was unfolding by the word of God – He spoke and it all came into being. The story of creation is found in the first book of the Bible, Genesis. Can you say Genesis? (let them repeat it) God created a person, a real human being, like you and me. He called him Adam. And then God made another person and called her Eve. In the cool of the afternoon, the people walked with God in the beautiful garden. He taught them about all the wonderful things He’s created and told them to care for it. This is how people lived close to God and He was their friend.
Today we are going to work together to do a fun Adam and Eve craft of our own. God created people in His image. Adam did not stand alone, all by himself. Another good way to think about it is: Why did God choose to create Eve? The Bible verse in Genesis 2 verse 18 tells us that God actually said: “It is not good for man to be alone”. Did you know that God did not make you to be alone either? You don’t always have to do things your own way. God’s ways are better than our own.
To practice working as a team, we are not going to make our own crafts today! (gasp) We are all going to work together to make something bigger and better than any one of us could do on our own.
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Needed:
A large roll of paper. These are usually sold at Arts & Crafts stores and come in various sizes. The goal is basically to find a sheet of paper that is long enough to run along the length of the classroom, like a big red carpet almost. If you struggle to find a roll of paper, you can also glue posters together to form one looong one.
In the case of budgetary constraints, use individual sheets of normal printer paper and paste them together to form the long one. (*If this sounds out of reach as well, read below under Alternatives)
Prepare: If you want to send something home with them, draw puzzle pieces on the large roll of paper that they will cut out at the end. An easier option is just to cut blocks out at the end.
Markers, crayons, pencils, pens.
Optional: colored paper, magazines and scissors.
Extra optional: scrapbooking craft items like stickers, paper flowers, wooden birds, etc.
This is already a rather simple activity (compared to some of the other lesson plans out there…) Another option, if your budget is basically non-existent is to do the same activity but just use chalk on a sidewalk. If you’re in a more rural setting, have kids draw with sticks in the sand.
Chalk or sticks
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Step-by-step instructions for making this Adam & Eve in Eden Sunday school craft:
Roll out the paper and allow the kids to sit around it. Ideally, each kid should have the whole piece in front of them to themselves.
You can blow a whistle or simply say: “begin!” Then, the kids starting drawing the story in front of them. Their natural tendency will be for each one of them to draw the whole picture. What you want to encourage is having a few of them work on the tree over here, a few work on Adam and Eve over there, a few others work on the animals, and still some others work on nature like flowers and trees.
Some other elements you might want to add to your craft include but are not limited to: forbidden fruit hanging on the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil, fig leaves, the snake, and perhaps God.
For older kids, and to add a level of difficulty, you might consider a “musical chairs approach” where the kids rotate every few minutes. Then they have to pick up with the drawing or picture that somebody else was creating. This will be challenging to navigate, but it will definitely give the optimal experience of group work. Perhaps high school students would be good at this. Young kiddos still tend to prefer independent work and might burst out in tears if somebody else touches their picture!
Ask the class if they want to consider not breaking up the puzzle and rather keeping it whole. Cut up the huge page into the puzzle pieces or blocks now if you chose that option.
Usually, there is a big expectation in Kids Ministry that the children need to take something home when they create a craft. This mindset encourages individualistic thinking, but the Kingdom of God is more communal than that. You can put it up as a banner on a wall in your gathering space or Sunday school classroom as a reminder of what beauty can come from teamwork. Perhaps they can invite their parents to come look at the activity sheet next Sunday, that way, you get the parents into the kids’ church space too.
The parent-child relationship is an underrated factor in kids ministry. But you have to remember that the parents are kids’ first disciplers. They are with the kids every day and even though you see them once a week for epic activities, your impact in the kids’ lives is limited. Normal family home evenings are sacred ground too.
Eljoh Hartzer is combining theology and art to nurture faith journeys across generations. She is a Masters-level Practical Theologian with the University of Stellenbosch. She is also a writer and editor in the niche of Christianity and children's content and she illustrates children's books. Eljoh resides in the Swartland area in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
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