Here is a Sunday School lesson on the topic: Adam and Eve Sinned, but God Forgives.
Create Curiosity:
Print and tape pictures of trees all over the room. All the kids to look around and see all the many, many trees everywhere. Count the trees together.
Say, That’s a lot of trees!
Teaching Time: Genesis 2
Show your open Bible. Say, The Bible tells us about Adam and Eve, the first people God created. God placed them in a beautiful garden. There were trees everywhere!
God told them they could eat from all the trees in the garden, except one. That’s a lot of trees they could eat from!
Say, They could choose this one, or this one, or this one…. (point to each one around the room as you are talking).
Adam and Eve made a bad choice. Even though they had so many
trees to choose from, they chose to eat from the one tree God said not to. [Show an apple and make a slice out of the side of it using a butter knife. Pretend the eat the apple slice.]
When Adam and Eve disobeyed, it hurt their friendship with God. The punishment for sin is separation from God. God did not want them to sin. He told them not to. He did not want to be separated from them.
So He had a plan! God’s plan was to send Jesus to heal the broken relationship caused by sin. [Place a Band-Aid over the cut apple.]
God’s love and forgiveness allows us to be in a loving friendship with Him, even when we make mistakes.
Craft Corner:
Provide each child with the apple sheet that has been printed on cardstock, if possible.
Give each child a half sheet of red construction paper. Allow them to tear the paper into small pieces and glue to the apple.
Optional, place a Band-Aid over the “bite” in the apple.
Sing a Song:
To the Rescue by Lifeway
Group Game:
Create colorful confetti by cutting various colored construction paper into small squares. Store in a plastic baggie. Place ONLY ONE red square in the bag.
Grab a handful of confetti and toss it into the air and allow it rain down.
Instruct the kids to pick up all the pieces (provide a plastic bucket for them to put the pieces into), but tell them NOT TO PICK UP THE RED ONE.
[Teacher will pick up the red one at the end.]
Repeat.