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Noah's Ark Activities & Crafts for Kindergarten

The Bible story of Noah's Ark tells the story of Noah, who is told by God that he must build an ark and take two of each kind of animal on the ark before God floods the earth. Use this biblical story to teach students about different kinds of animals and plan engaging art activities to foster your students' creativity.
  1. Animals of the Ark

    • Create a large display of Noah's Ark in your classroom. Draw a large ark on a bulletin board. Ask students to create the animals that will board the ark. Ask students to work in pairs to create animals. Draw simple animal shapes on white card stock, two of each animal. Ask each group to be responsible for one set of animals: For example, one pair of students is responsible for completing two giraffes. Encourage each student to cut out an animal and decorate it, using paint, markers, pom-poms, cotton balls and other decorations. When the animals are completed, line them up in pairs on the wall to enter the ark.

    Animal Collage

    • Let students fill an ark with two of every animal by making an animal collage. Draw an ark shape on brown construction paper. Give a copy to each student to cut out. Provide students with magazines that feature animals and have them cut out pictures of the animals they find. Encourage students to work together so each has two of each animal. Have students to glue the animals they cut out onto their ark.

    Paper Ark

    • Help kindergarteners design their own ark. Cut a simple ark shape from white card stock. Give students markers, paint, construction paper, glue and other art supplies. Encourage them to decorate the ark in any way they choose. Show students how to cut out additional levels from white paper to glue on the ark. Encourage students to add details such as windows with animals peeking through or to cut waves from blue paper to glue on the bottom of the ark.

    Rainbow

    • In the Bible story, Noah sees a rainbow that lets him know the flood is over. Help your kindergarten students create a rainbow while teaching them color recognition. Cut out an arched rainbow shape from white cardstock. Draw lines on the rainbow to show students where to color. Encourage students to color the rainbow with red on top, then orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. When students have completed their rainbow, give each student a piece of gray construction paper and have them to cut out two cloud shapes. Glue the cloud shapes to the ends of the rainbow.

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