Songs and fingerplays are engaging tools to help young children learn about Creation in a fun and interactive way. Through simple lyrics and hand motions, these activities make the Creation story memorable and easy to understand. Explore the list below to find joyful songs and creative fingerplays that will bring the wonder of God’s creation to life for little ones.
Tune: Mary Had a Little Lamb or Do You Know the Muffin Man?
Do you know who made the world,
made the world, made the world?
Do you know who made the world?
It was God who made the world.
Replace the word 'world' with other things that God created depending on the day of creation (cows, dogs, trees, etc.) Have the child suggest their own.
Traditional
This is the day (echo)
That the Lord has made (echo)
I will rejoice (echo)
And be glad in it (echo)
This is the day that the Lord has made
I will rejoice and be glad in it
This is the day (echo)
That the Lord has made
Tune: Are You Sleeping? or Where is Thumbkin?
Seven days, seven days
In a week, in a week
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Saturday, That’s a week
Here are my fingers, here are my toes
Here are my knees, here is my nose.
Here are my feet that help me walk around.
Here is my mouth that can make sound.
Here are my ears, my shoulders, my belly
Here is my tongue that eats grape jelly
Here is my hair that is crazy you see
Here is my smile that God gave me!
Celebrate Jesus' birthday with fun activities, meaningful conversation, and yummy cake to help children ages 3-12 understand the significance of Jesus' birth.
Traditional
He's got the whole world in His hands (3x)
The whole world in His hands.
Create your own verses:
He's got our family...
He's got the mountains and the rivers...
He's got the fish and the birds...
On Day 1 (On numbers - put corresponding fingers in the air)
God created light (close fists and then quickly open in the air and bring down to side creating arches)
On Day 2
God created the sky (wave arms in the air) and water (make waves with hands)
On Day 3
God created land (with palms facing the floor, run hands flat in front of you) and plants (place one fist inside the other and pop the one fist through the other - sign language for plant)
On Day 4
God created the sun (hold arm up in the air with fingers spread wide), moon (with opposite arm make a "c" formation with your hand in the air), and stars (with index fingers putting up alternate right and left hand moving up in the air - sign language for stars)
On Day 5
God created the fish (swim hands with palms together) and birds (join thumbs and fly hands in the air)
On Day 6
God created animals (choose your favorite animal) and people (point with thumbs at self)
On Day 7
God rested (place hands together by face as sleeping)
Tune: Are You Sleeping
On the first day x2
God created x2
Light and dark (or Day and Night) x2
It was good x2
On the second day x2
God created x2
Sky and ocean x2
It was good x2
On the third day x2
God created x2
Land, plants, and trees x2
It was good x2
On the fourth day x2
God created x2
Sun, moon, and stars x2
It was good x2
On the fifth day x2
God created x2
Fish and birds x2
It was good x2
On the sixth day x2
God created x2
Animals and man x2
It was very good x2
On the seventh day x2
It was finished x2
And God blessed it x2
Then he rested x2
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