Day 6 – Creation of the Animals and Man

Memory Verse: When you do your verses tonight pretend to struggle some and see if they can help you finish it. Thank them for helping you finish it and love on them for how good they are doing.

Genesis 1:24-31
Ask your kids to try and list off the order by memory. Give clues if you need to without using the flash cards. We used our hands to make animals and birds when it came to day 5 and made the sun and moon shapes for day 4.

Today is a big day. The main focus of God’s creation was made on this day. God made animals and saw it was good, then made man totally different than the rest of creation. He made us in HIS image. We are like Him. We were given a purpose, a job, and instruction. He formed us in a unique way and gave us the planet to rule over and take care of. That is a pretty important job!

Talk with your children about how each of them are unique. Shapes, sizes, hair color, eye color and more. Yet we all have that image of God in us. We have a soul which longs to be with Him! Ask your children how we can take care of the Planet and how we can rule over it. What does it mean to be masters over the birds, fish and animals. This is also a great place to point out that God made vegetables for us to eat! If your kids are anything like mine, they may go off on tangents some but let them. Younger children express what they are thinking at that moment.

When you pray tonight, thank God for making us in His image. Thank Him for making each of us unique. Thank Him for loving us.