The following are scriptures I would consider reading or at least going over in the story of Noah. I would encourage you to read at least one scripture with your kids. Exposing them to the actual language in the Bible I feel will help them learn more. But for attention span purposes you may need to adjust how much you share. So I wrote the verses and what they cover and you can pick and choose what would work best for your kids. Ideally, you would read the whole thing when they are old enough to pay attention to it all.
Genesis 6:5- God sees the wickedness on Earth
Genesis 6:15-16 talks about the design of the ark (for any kids who are interested in making their own ark)
Genesis 6:17-22- a flood will come and destroy everything except Noah
Genesis 7:2-3- for older children I might read this because it talks about how to bring 7 of every clean beast and every fowl and two of every unclean beast. But it's much simpler to say he brought 2 of everything.
Genesis 7:17- it rained for 40 days [and 40 nights see verse 12]
Genesis 7:20- for any children who might be interested in how much flooding there was- it was 15 cubits deep and covered the mountains.
Genesis 8:8-12- Noah sends out the dove to see if the waters had abated. (verse 7 mentions that he also sent out a raven). If the floods covered the mountains then it would have covered the trees, so the dove would have nowhere to live either until the waters had subsided enough. I wonder (and I'll try to remember to do more research on it) if he sent out a dove because they make their nests in the lower branches of trees? Verses a hawk that will perch in the tallest of trees. This way a dove would find a home when the floods had lowered enough to expose the lowest branches of trees and would indicate that the ground would be exposed shortly after.
Genesis 8:20- says Noah built an altar and made an offering- the importance of this scripture is that he gave thanks to the Lord.
Genesis 9:11-16- God makes a promise to never completely flood the Earth again and gives the rainbow as a sign/reminder of this promise.
Activity Suggestions:1. Draw a favorite animal.
2. Build an "ark" and see if it floats. For Boat Ideas Click Here.
3. Play in the water and look for rainbows (run through sprinklers but look for the rainbows, play with bubbles which have an iridescent/rainbow quality to them. or just draw some water, an ark, an animal and a rainbow).
