Lesson 1—Genesis Story of Creation
For Christian schools or Sunday School classes: First Grade
(Note: this lesson is also included in our preschool / K lesson pack.)
Materials:
● Age-appropriate Bible story of creation
● Paper and crayons or markers
Time:
30 minutes
Concepts:
● God created everything.
● God created everyone.
● God is still involved in the creation of each new human life.
● God made families.
Bible Verses:
Genesis 1:26-31
Prayer:
Lead an opening prayer thanking God for creating our world and
giving us life.
Discussion:
1. Read Genesis 1:26-31 to the students.
2. Ask the children to name examples of the things God has made
(e.g. sun, moon, mountains, water, plants, animals)
3. Ask the children to name examples of the people God has made
(e.g. grandparents, fathers, mothers, girls, boys, babies). Are babies
made in a factory like the dolls you buy at the store? Introduce the
idea that each baby is created by God.
4. Explain that God made families.
5. Have kids draw a picture of the family God created for them.
All of our families are different, but they are all special. God could
have brought new people into the world as adults, but he wanted us
to start out as babies, in a family, surrounded by love.
6. If time allows, have each child show the class the picture of his
family, and name the people in his family.
7. Sing: He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands.
Lesson 2—Babies come from God.
For Christian schools or Sunday School classes: First Grade
(Note: this lesson is also included in our preschool / K lesson pack.)
Materials:
● Age-appropriate Bible
● Poster of 18-week-old baby sucking thumb
(laminated, could be left on display all year)
● Picture of a pregnant mother
● large sheets of drawing paper and crayons or markers
Time:
20 minutes
Concepts:
● Babies come from God.
● A mother’s womb is where a baby lives until it is born.
● God lets a baby grow in his or her mother’s womb.
● A womb can be compared to a room.
Bible Verse:
Psalms 139:14
Prayer:
Prayer thanking God for giving us life, and for giving us a family.
Discussion:
1. Read Psalms 139:14 to the students.
2. Show the picture of the pregnant mother, and explain that the
womb is a special place for a baby to grow until it is ready to be
born. When God created you, He put you in your mother’s womb.
3. Compare a mother’s womb to a child’s bedroom. It is a special
place to feel safe. Explain how a womb is a baby’s room.
4. Ask questions to assess understanding and address
misconceptions about the womb.
Activities:
1. Ask the children to fold a large piece of drawing paper in half.
2. Ask children to draw and color a mother’s womb on one half of
the page and their bedroom on the other half. (The “mother’s
womb” can look like whatever the child imagines it to look like.)
3. Ask several students to show their pictures and tell how a womb
is like their room.
Lesson 3—God Created Me
For Christian schools or Sunday School classes: First Grade
(Note: this lesson is also included in our preschool and K lesson pack.)
Materials:
● Poster of 18-week-old baby sucking thumb.
(Consider leaving it on display in the classroom for “Respect Life
Month” or throughout the year)
● Age-appropriate Bible
Time:
20 minutes
Concepts:
● God created every part of our body.
● Every part of our body is beautiful and special.
● The Father loves us.
● We use our body for good things.
Prayer:
The Lord’s Prayer
Activities:
1. Show the poster to the children. Point out how beautiful the
baby’s hand is.
2. Let them study their own hands and discover the different things
they can do with their hands and fingers.
3. Discuss how God created every part of us, He loves us, and He
wants us to be good, and to do good things with the hands, feet,
etc. that he gave us.
4. Sing this song with the children:
Be careful little hands what you do,
Be careful little hands what you do,
The Father up above, is looking down with love,
So, be careful little hands what you do.
Additional verses:
Be careful little eyes what you see…
Be careful little feet where you go…
Be careful little ears what you hear…
Be careful little mouth what you say…
Lesson 4 – God Creates Everything
For Christian schools or Sunday School classes: First Grade
(Note: this lesson is also included in our preschool and K lesson pack.)
This lesson may be combined with Lesson 1, or presented as a separate lesson.
Materials:
● Kansans for Life’s coloring book, “God Is Great, God Is Good”
● Crayons or markers
Time:
20 minutes
Concepts:
● God is good.
● God created everything.
● God made you.
Prayer:
Lead a prayer thanking God for creating us and all of the good
things in our world.
Activities:
1. Read the coloring book to the class.
2. Ask the children to think of other people and things God made.
3. Give each child his own coloring book and continue discussion
of the concepts as the children color.
Lesson 5 – Egg Babies
For Christian schools or Sunday School classes: First Grade
Materials:
● Empty egg cartons
● A hollowed-out eggshell for each child
● markers
Time:
5 min. a day for several days, or 5 min. a week for several weeks
Concepts:
● Babies grow and develop over a period of time.
● We have to be responsible and careful with these fragile
“babies.”
● Egg carton is like a womb and protects the “baby.”
Prayer:
Prayer thanking God for giving real human babies a safe place to
grow and develop inside their mothers’ wombs.
Bible Verse:
Genesis 1:26-31
Discussion:
1. Each child gets a hollowed-out eggshell. Discuss with the
children how fragile these eggshells are. They must be very
careful. Discuss what responsibility is.
2. Each day for a period of 5-10 days, or once a week for 5- 10
weeks, have the children add a feature to their eggshell babies
(such as eyes, nose, mouth, ears, hair, freckles, hands, feet …)
3. The shells are stored in egg cartons in the classroom. Discuss
how the egg carton protects the eggshells, like a womb protects a
growing and developing baby.
4. Halfway through the time period the egg babies are developing,
the teacher does a “check-up” (like a doctor) to see how they are
developing, and comments on each of the “babies.”
5. At the end of the time period you have designated for this
activity, the children name their egg babies and take them out of
the cartons.
Lesson 6 – Stages of Human Development
For Christian schools or Sunday School classes: First Grade
Materials:
● Bible
● photos of people at various ages (could be cut out of magazines,
or found on the internet). Include a photo of an unborn baby, a
newborn baby, a toddler, a young elementary school child, an older
elementary school child, a teenager, a young adult, a middle-aged
adult, and an elderly person.
Time:
30 minutes
Bible Verse:
James 3:9-10
Jeremiah 1:5
Concepts:
● Human beings progress through stages of development.
● People have different needs at different ages. We need to be
aware of the needs of all God’s children.
● Life begins when God forms us in our mother’s womb.
Activities:
1. Look at the photos and have the children organize them
from youngest to oldest.
Discussion:
1. Ask the children what they looked like when they were younger.
Ask them what they think they will look like when they are older.
2. Ask if people have different needs at different ages. What did
other people have to do for them when they were babies, that they
can do for themselves now? What do they still need their parents
to do for them? Is there anything they can do to help elderly
people? What kinds of help do elderly people need?
3. Ask the children if people at one stage of development are more
important than people at other stages. Lead them to discover that it
is part of human life to progress through all of these stages. God
loves us and cares for us at every stage of our lives, and we should
care for others through all the stages of their lives.
4. Ask the children when their life began. Did God know them
before they were born? Did he have a plan for their lives, even
before they were born?
Lesson 7 – Baby in the Womb
For Christian schools or Sunday School classes: First Grade
Materials:
● YouTube Video: Let Me Live by Pat Boone
● Paper and crayons or markers
● Fetal models
Media:
Computer and Powerpoint Screen with access to the internet.
Time:
30 minutes
Concept:
● God gives babies a safe place to grow and develop inside their
mothers, and we call this special place the womb.
Bible Verses:
Psalms 127:3
Directions:
1. Watch the video: Boone, Pat Let Me Live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf-9LQEfftU
2. Discuss the images. How is the unborn baby the same as older
children? How is he different?
3. Ask the children what they liked about the book/video.
Activity:
1. Have the children draw a picture of a baby in a womb.
2. Hand out the fetal models and discuss them. This is what each of
the students once looked like, when they had been growing 10-12
weeks in their mothers’ womb.
Lesson 8 – Why Do We Care for Babies?
For Christian schools or Sunday School classes: First Grade
(Note: this lesson is also in our preschool / K lesson pack.)
Materials:
● Bible
● Fishbowl filled with water
● Live fish
● Fish food
Time:
15 minutes
Bible Verse:
Genesis 1:28
Concepts:
● Living things need to be cared for.
● A womb can be compared to a fishbowl with fish.
Activities:
1. Teacher says “I’m giving this special gift to the classroom. It is
a fishbowl and fish. It will be your job to take good care of these
fish. God does the same. He gives a gift to a mother and father.
The gift is a new baby. It is the mother and father’s job to take
good care of the baby.”
2. Put the fish in the fishbowl and explain how every student will
get a chance to feed and care for the fish.
Discussion:
1. Ask the students if they would you be upset if someone didn’t
feed the fish when it was his turn? Would it upset you if someone
harmed the fish?
2. Why do we need to care for a baby? If not, what will happen?
(e.g., it will cry, get sick, die, etc.)
3. Would God be upset if you didn’t care for His babies?
4. Read and discuss the meaning of the Bible verse, Genesis 1:28.
Optional: At the end of a certain period of time have a drawing to see who may take the
fish home. The children can be rewarded for good behavior by being given additional
chances for the drawing.
Lesson 9 – John in the Womb
For Christian schools or Sunday School classes: First Grade
(Note: this lesson is also in our preschool / K lesson pack.)
Material:
● Bible
Time:
20 minutes
Bible Verse:
Luke 1:44
Prayer:
Appropriate prayer
Concepts:
● God had a special plan for John, even before he was born
● God has a special plan for all of us
Discussion:
1. Read the Bible passage: Luke 1:39-45.
2. Discuss how baby John knew Mary was going to have a special
baby. (He had this knowledge because God – the Holy Spirit –
allowed him to know that the Savior had come.)
3. Discuss the fact that God had a very special plan in mind for
John’s life. God knew this plan even before John was born.
4. God had a plan in mind for each of us, before we were born.
There are unborn babies in their mothers’ wombs right now, and
although we do not know God’s plans for them, we know that God
does have a plan in mind for those babies.
3. Explain that babies can experience joy. Discuss how baby John
felt when he heard the good news.
4. Ask the children to give examples of what brings them joy.
6. Ask the children if their own mothers have shared stories of
what they did while they were in the womb.
Lesson 10 – Birthday Party for Baby
For Christian schools or Sunday School classes: First Grade
This lesson could be done as a Christmas lesson/Christmas party.
Materials:
● Supplies to make presents for baby or one big present from the
class, or the children could bring presents from home (baby wipes,
diapers, baby shampoo, etc. – check with your local crisis
pregnancy center ahead of time to find out what their greatest
needs are)
● Supplies to have a birthday party (optional)
● Age-appropriate Bible
Time:
depends on whether you will be making baby gifts or having the
children bring a gift from home
Bible Verses:
Luke 2:6-7
Concept:
● Life is something to celebrate.
Discussion:
1. Discuss what happens at a first birthday party. Who is there?
Include God.
Activities:
1. Celebrate as you would for a birthday party.
2. Collect gifts and explain that they will be given to special babies
who need extra help. Gifts collected are donated to a crisis center
in the area.
Lesson 11 – What is in a Name?
For Christian schools or Sunday School classes: First Grade
Materials:
● Bible
● Paper and crayons or markers
Time:
20 minutes
Bible Verses:
Isaiah 43:1
Genesis 17:4-6
John 1:42
Concepts:
● Importance of using names for identity.
● God knows each child and calls them by name.
Activity:
1. Read the Bible verses and discuss how God knows each of them
as an individual. He not only knows their names, but he knows
everything about them. Think about how God sees you – what you
like, what you do, how you treat others.
2. Ask the children if they like it when someone calls them by their
name, rather than “hey, you.”
3. Tell the children: Your name is special. Write your name in the
middle of a sheet of paper and then decorate the paper to make
your name special. As the children decorate their names, discuss
with them the list of questions you will send home for them to
discuss with their parents.
Take-home Questions:
Where did your name come from? Who named you? What does
your name mean? Were you named after someone?
Lesson 12 – Blessing the Children
For Christian schools or Sunday School classes: First Grade
(Note: this lesson is also included in our preschool / K lesson pack.)
Materials:
● Bible
Time:
20 minutes
Concepts:
● God blesses all children
● Children are important.
● Children can trust Jesus.
● Even adults can learn from children. They should learn to trust
Jesus the way children trust Jesus.
Bible Verses:
Mark 10:13-16
Discussion:
1. Read Bible passage: Mark 10:13-16. Does Jesus think children
are important? Does God bless children? What can adults learn
from children? (Be specific about this passage—adults need to
learn to trust in Jesus’ word like a child does.)
2. The most postitive proof that God is pro-life is that He sent His
Son, Jesus, as a baby to this world. You see, God isn’t just prophysical life, He’s pro-spiritual life. He wants each one of us to be
able to have eternal life – eternal life is life which lasts forever
with God in Heaven.
However, because Heaven is perfect, God can’t let us into Heaven
because of the bad things we’ve done. The Bible says in Romans
3:23, “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.”
Isaiah 59:1&2 says, “Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened,
that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear, but
your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and
your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.”
Romans 6:23 says, “For the wages of sin is death.” This means the
punishment for sin is death.
However, God loves us and wants us to be able to have a
relationship with Him and live with Him forever after we die. The
rest of that verse says, “For the wages of sin is death, BUT the gift
of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” John 3:16
says, “For God so loved the world, that He gave us His only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him, should not perish,
but have everlasting life.” Romans 5:8, “But God demonstrates
His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ
died for us.” Jesus is God and He is perfect, so He didn’t deserve
to die. However, He decided to die for us to pay the punishment
for our sins, so that if we believe on Him, we can have eternal life!
John 17:3 says, “And this is life eternal, that they might know
Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent.”
Romans 10:9-10 says, “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth
the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised
him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man
believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is
made unto salvation.”
We must tell God that we are sorry for our sins and ask Him to
forgive us. We must believe that Jesus died to pay the punishment
for our sins and give us eternal life through Jesus. Ephesians 2:8-9
says, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should
boast.” You see, just as God gave us the free gift of physical life –
He offers us the free gift of eternal life – you just have to accept it!
If you have not accepted this gift, please pray to God today and ask
Him to give you this life.
Optional Extensions of this lesson (if you have more time):
Read Luke’s version (Luke 18:15-17) because the word “infant” is used. What are the
differences between infants and children? God loves them both the same.
Read Matthew 18:1-5. What was Jesus saying in this passage? (Explanation: Children
are used as an example because they are completely trusting and relying on their parents.)
Adults need to be this way with Jesus.
What are some ways you need your mom and dad? Relate this to our needing Jesus.
Bibliography – First Grade
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God Is Great – God Is Good KFL coloring book (Free from Kansans
for Life)
Laminated Poster – 18 week unborn baby Life Cycle Books ($14.95)
12 week fetal models ($1.50 each)
Boone, Pat Let Me Live http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf9LQEfftU (Free online)