Children’s Sunday School Lesson: Adam and Eve
Use this straight-forward Sunday School Lesson about Adam and Eve from Group’s Dig In curriculum to teach your kids that God lets us choose between good and evil.
Introduce the Lesson
Say: Today we’re going to learn that God lets us choose between good and evil.
Ask: Tell about a good guy or bad guy in your favorite movie or book.
Say: It’s easy to see good and evil choices in a movie. But we make good or bad choices a lot, too! Let’s see what the Bible says about a choice two people made—and what happened because of their choice.
Read the Bible Story: Adam and Eve
You’ll need:
Discuss
Say: Today we’re going to learn about a time some people in the Bible made a bad choice and got in trouble.
Ask: Tell about something you did that you got in trouble for. Have kids turn to a partner to share. Then ask a few kids to share with everyone.
Say: We all do wrong things sometimes. When God made the world, he made it perfect! God made Adam and Eve, and at first, they were in perfect relationship with God and each other. Let’s link arms to show that. Lead everyone in linking arms.
Adam and Eve lived in a beautiful place called the Garden of Eden. They walked and talked with each other—and with God! That must have been so wonderful! Imagine if no one ever said or did anything mean to you. Imagine if you never did bad things that you later felt bad about. Everything was perfect.
Don’t Touch Blue
Say: God could have made Adam and Eve like robots who had no choice but to do the right thing. But he didn’t. God lets us choose between good and evil. And God had one rule for Adam and Eve.
The Garden of Eden was full of trees with delicious fruit! There was just one tree they weren’t allowed to eat from.
Let’s try something. Find something you can touch with one hand—maybe the floor, your shoe, or someone’s sleeve. You can touch any color you want—except blue. You can briefly unlink to touch something. Allow time. If your space is mostly blue, feel free to choose a different color.
Ask: How did you feel as you were trying to avoid touching blue.
Say: There were a lot of things you could touch that weren’t blue! And there was a lot of delicious fruit that was wonderful to eat. Let’s see if Adam and Eve could stick to only the good fruit.
Read Genesis 3:1-3.
Say: Oh no! The serpent tried to trick Eve by making it sound like God’s rule was that she couldn’t eat any fruit. Eve didn’t fall for that trick.
But then the serpent told Eve that if she ate the fruit, she would be like God. Would she fall for that trick? Let’s find out.
Read Genesis 3:6.
Touch Blue
Say: Oh no! Eve ate the fruit—and so did Adam! God lets us choose between good and evil. They made the evil choice. Touch something blue to show how they disobeyed. Again, you can briefly unlink if you need to. Pause.
Now let’s see what happened because of that choice.
First, they heard God coming, so they hid. Their perfect relationship with God was broken! Unlink from one of the people you’re linked to. Pause.
Then, when God asked about it, Adam blamed Eve. Their perfect relationship with each other was broken, too. Unlink from everyone and scoot apart. Pause.
And they felt ashamed. Cover your face. Pause.
God lets us choose between good and evil. But sometimes there are consequences when we choose the wrong thing. Everyone got in trouble.
- The serpent was cursed to crawl on his belly. Wriggle on the ground like a snake. Pause.
- Eve was cursed so that it would hurt to be pregnant and have babies. Hold your bellies like they hurt. Pause.
- And Adam was cursed to have thorns that made it harder to grow food. Poke yourself with a fingernail. Pause.
- Plus, God made Adam and Eve leave the wonderful Garden he had made, the Garden of Eden. Turn around and face away from everyone. Pause.
God lets us choose between good and evil. Everyone chooses wrong things sometimes, but look what happened! Wrong choices hurt others and separate us from each other. But when we ask God for help, he can help us make good choices. And when we do make bad choices, he forgives us.
Explore at 3 Bible Stations
After you read the Bible story, have kids visit the following learning centers in different areas of the room:
1). Grapes
You’ll need:
- platter of grapes
- 1 teen or adult helper
Set out a platter of grapes. Allow children to touch and smell the grapes, but forbid children to eat any. Then have children talk about how difficult it is to look at the grapes but not eat any.
Ask:
- How do you think Eve felt when she saw a beautiful fruit she couldn’t eat?
- Have you ever been told not to eat some candy, but you really wanted to?
Say: That’s temptation; you were tempted to eat the candy. If you gave in to the temptation, you disobeyed.
Ask:
- Have you ever been tempted to break another rule?
- If so, what? What helped you not give in to temptation?
- What happened if you gave in to temptation?
2). The Snake and Adam and Eve
You’ll need:
- snake toy
- enough room for kids to crawl around
- 1 teen or adult helper
Set out a snake toy. Let kids handle the snake toy. Have kids practice crawling on their bellies like a snake. Then have children talk about how the serpent must’ve felt when he was cursed to crawl on his belly.
Ask:
- Why did God punish the serpent?
- Why did God punish Adam and Eve?
- Have you ever been punished for breaking a rule? How did you feel?
3). Newspaper Clothes
You’ll need:
- scrap sewing material
- bulletin board paper
- 1 teen or adult helper
From a pile of scrap material or sheets of bulletin board paper, have children make new clothing for themselves as Adam and Eve did to hide from God. Discuss how it felt to hide from God.
Ask:
- Have you ever done something wrong and wanted to hide so no one would find out?
- What did Adam and Eve do wrong?
- Why did God want them to follow his rules?
Apply the Bible Story
Let kids eat the grapes as you lead the closing discussion.
You’ll need:
- Bible
- grapes from Bible stations
Pray About Evil
Say: Today we’ve learned that God lets us choose between good and evil. But we don’t have to make those choices on our own; we can ask God to help us. Let’s do that now.
Gather kids on one side of the room.
Say: Let’s imagine that this side of the room is a bad or evil choice. Think about a choice facing you this week. Pray silently that God will keep you from making a bad choice. Allow time.
Have kids move to the middle of the room.
Say: Jesus prayed about staying away from temptation. Let’s pray his prayer.
Read Matthew 6:13, and then have kids pray it by repeating it after you.
Pray About Good
Read Romans 12:21.
Say: God says we can overcome evil by doing good! Let’s go to the other side of the room and imagine it’s a good choice.
Lead kids across the room.
Say: Think about a good choice you could make this week. Silently ask God to help you make that choice. Allow time.
Read Psalm 34:14.
Say: God can help you turn from evil and do good. Remember this verse during the week as you try to make good choices.
Thank kids for coming, and encourage them to make good choices and to come back next week to tell you about their choices.
This lesson is adapted from The Bible in One Year plan from Group’s Dig In curriculum. If you’re looking for flexible digital curriculum for Sunday school and children’s church, Dig In is right for you!
Looking for more ideas? Find more great Sunday school lessons to help kids grow in their faith at childrensministry.com.
