Lessons and Ideas that use cooking, food prep, tasting for teaching the Story of Adam and Eve - Genesis 2 - in Sunday School
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Adam and Eve--The Fall into Sin
Cooking Workshop Outline
Summary of Lesson Activities: 
The children will paint a picture on cookie dough with colored egg yolk, which will then be baked. Just as the goodness of God’s creation was destroyed through sin, they will destroy (break up) their creation (the cookie). But all is not lost! God promised a Savior in the 3rd chapter of Genesis, and God goes with Adam and Eve into their difficult lives. The children will add pudding to their cookies to remind them of the sweetness of God’s promise, and to symbolize the healing/transformation of brokenness.
Lesson Objectives:
- Find the story of The Fall in the book of Genesis.
- Realize that the “goodness” of creation --which was our close and trusting relationship with God, was broken by our sin -- our desire to be our own god and hide our sins from God.
- Understand that God did not abandon mankind but promised a Savior to restore us and Creation.
Leader Preparation:
- Review Bible Background notes.
- Gather the following materials:
- Bibles
- Parchment paper—cut into pieces (one for each student)
- Permanent marker
- Cookie dough (sugar cookie or cut-out cookie recipe)—can be frozen if not used one week
- Egg yolks
- Food coloring
- Shallow cups or bowls
- Paintbrushes—new (not ones used previously for painting)
- Boomwhackers--an alternative could be to use any sort of rhythm instruments (rice shakers, wooden sticks, triangles, etc)
- Cups—one for each student
- Spoons—one for each student
- Pudding—enough to give each child a scoop—perhaps 2 different flavors
- Serving spoons
Advance Preparation Requirements:
- Prepare cookie dough before each session. Roll out and cut cookie dough into rectangles for the students to “paint” on. Place each cookie dough section on a piece of parchment paper.
- Prepare the pudding before each session. Keep it out of sight until it is used in the lesson.
- Prepare the egg yolks before each session. Separate the eggs to obtain the yolks. Add food coloring to the yolks and stir well to make different colors.
- Before class, set out the following: egg yolk “paints” and paintbrushes, cookie dough sections at each seat.
LESSON PLAN OUTLINE
1. Students "paint" beautiful decorations on raw cookie dough using egg yolk paints. (These can be colored with food coloring).
2. While the cookies are baking, read and discuss the story of Adam and Eve.
Key points to cover and discuss: (adapt for the age of your students)
- Why did they do it? What is the "lie" that sin tells you? (that you can do whatever you want without consequences, i.e. be your own god)
- Do you think God knew what they had done right away? If so, why did God "wait" unto the evening breeze to go looking for the sinners? What was God hoping would happen? (confession?)
- When God called out their names, do you think God already knew where they were?
- Why did Adam and Eve hide and blame each other, then the serpent? Sin is embarrassing. Have you ever been ashamed of doing something? How did it make you feel?
- Have you ever broken something and then tried to hide it? Have you ever been confronted with what you broken and still denied breaking it? We are soooo like Adam and Eve!
- God got angry with them. Does that surprise you that God gets angry?
- When you do something wrong and get caught, who gets angry with you? Do you expect some sort of punishment? Have you ever gotten angry with yourself? Punished yourself?
- How important IS IT to confess your sins rather than hide them?
- What was Adam and Eve's biggest sin, eating the forbidden fruit? or trying to hide from God?
- The punishment that Adam and Eve received was to be exiled from the Garden of Eden and live difficult lives full of work and pain. Do you think that was fair? What do you think God was trying to teach us about sin and its consequences? (it leads to toil and hurt, it breaks relationships, trust)
- Did God send them out on their own? No. What two things did God do for them? 1. He sewed them clothes to cover their embarrassment (and remind them that sin makes us feel ashamed). 2. God went WITH them into the difficult world. God did not abandon them! Even at the end of the story we see God's healing presence at work trying to restore/heal their relationship with him.
- What can YOU do to heal the relationship between someone who sins against YOU?
3. To illustrate the Bible story...
Students will crumble their beautiful cookies fresh out of the oven. They will "ruin" them just like Adam and Eve's life "crumbled" because of their sin
Give each child a cup, have them break up their cookie and put the pieces in the cup. As they do so, continue to share the truth of their story and how it ends...
Adam and Eve may have felt that their wonderful life was destroyed, but God did not desert them or kill them on the spot. He gave them clothes to cover their embarrassment, and even though he sent them away from the Garden and into a difficult world, God went WITH them.
Give each child some vanilla or chocolate pudding to put in their cup and bring the broken pieces of their cookie together.
As they eat their pudding...
God also gave them a promise! Let’s read Genesis 3: 14-15. God said that He would send someone, born of a woman, to crush and destroy the serpent. This is the first promise of the Savior in the Bible, all the way back in the time of the first 2 people. Jesus was born of Mary—a woman. The serpent (sin) would strike Jesus’ heel (try to stop Jesus from redeeming the world), but Jesus would "crush" and destroy the serpent (sin which separates us from God's love). How did Jesus do it? Through his life and death and resurrection, he told us that God was FOR us, not against us, and forgave us our sins so that we might have eternal life with him.
