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Baby Pictures and God's Image
Get out the baby pictures; everybody LOVES baby pictures! Talk about the special day they were born. Pull out your own baby pictures. Compare them to see if you look alike. Just as your child probably looks like you, you were made in God's image.
Read Genesis 1:26 (Let us make man in our own image.)
Ask:
What does it mean that man is made in God's image or likeness? (We have a soul, we can think, but animals do things by instinct; we live forever, etc.)
What does it mean that man is made in God's image or likeness? (We have a soul, we can think, but animals do things by instinct; we live forever, etc.)
We could never be as smart, as creative, as strong, or as loving as God, but God made man different from the animals. He made man to be like Him. He gave man responsibility over the animals. God's plan was for man to love Him and to have children and teach them to love God.
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God's Amazing Design
Talk about God's amazing design in creating you!
Put your hand on your heart. Did you place your hand on the left side of your chest? The heart is actually located almost in the center of the chest, between the lungs. It's tipped slightly so that a part of it sticks out and taps against the left side of the chest, which is what makes it seem as though it is located there.
Feel your pulse by placing two fingers at pulse points on your neck or wrists. The pulse you feel is blood stopping and starting as it moves through your arteries. Take your pulse. (A kid's resting pulse might range from 90 to 120 beats per minute. An adult's slows to an average of 72 beats per minute.)
Your heart is about the size of a clenched fist and weighs less than a pound.
Your body has about 6 quarts of blood (show a quart-sized container), which circulates through the body three times every minute. In one day, the blood travels a total of 12,000 miles—that's four times the distance across the US from coast to coast.
The heart beats about 100,000 times each day and about 35 million times a year.
God made your body perfectly. Your heart beats, and keeps beating, even without you thinking about it!
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What Does Your Dream Home Look Like?
Ask kids to describe their perfect/ideal home.
Where would you live?
What would your house look like?
What would your house look like?
Would you like to live with any animals?
What would you like to eat?
Read about the first man's (Adam) perfect home in Genesis 2:8-22. God made a perfect garden for Adam and gave him food to eat and told him to care for his home. Adam lived with and named the animals. How would you like to share your home with a giraffe? God made a wife, Eve, for Adam who was just right for him. Best of all, God made Adam and Eve without sin. God's best plan was for man to love Him and live in this perfect place. Students using the D6 curriculum will soon see what happens to God's plan.
