Free Bible lessons for kids · 16 lessons
Bible lessons from Genesis for kids
Genesis is the book of beginnings: creation, the fall, the flood, and God’s promises to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph.
These free Bible lessons for kids all teach the book of Genesis. Each one comes with an animated story film told word for word from the King James Version, a coloring page, a class sheet, a teacher guide with a 45-minute plan, questions with answers and a game.
- Lessons
- 16 (of 32 from Genesis)
- Passages
- Genesis 1:1–2:3, Genesis 2:4–25, Genesis 3:1–24, Genesis 4:1–16, Genesis 6:5–22, Genesis 7:1–24, and more
- Ages
- Preschool to preteen (3 to 12), with tips for each age
- Each lesson
- Story film (KJV), coloring page, class sheet, teacher guide, questions and answers, a game
- Cost
- Free: no subscription, no cost per child, no sign-up to teach
The lessons: 16 stories about the book of Genesis
God Made Everything
Genesis 1:1–2:3 · story film
In six days God made the light, the sky and the seas, the dry land and the plants, the sun, moon and stars, the fish and birds, the animals, and then man and woman in His own image. On the seventh day He rested.
Big idea: God made everything, and He made it good.
Memory verse:
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1:1 (KJV)Ask: What did God make on the first day? Light (Genesis 1:3–5).
Game: Creation Days Relay (about 10 minutes)
The Garden of Eden
Genesis 2:4–25 · story film
God planted a garden eastward in Eden, with every tree that is pleasant to see and good for food, and a river to water it. He put Adam there to dress it and keep it, and made Eve to be his helper.
Big idea: God gives us good gifts and good work to do.
Memory verse:
And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Genesis 2:15 (KJV)Ask: Which two special trees grew in the midst of the garden? The tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Game: Name the Animals (about 10 minutes)
Where Art Thou?
Genesis 3:1–24 · story film
The serpent tempted Eve, and Adam and Eve ate the fruit God had told them not to eat. They hid, but God came looking for them, and He promised that one day the woman’s Seed would crush the serpent’s head.
Big idea: When we sin, God comes looking for us.
Memory verse:
And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
Genesis 3:9 (KJV)Ask: Who tempted Eve? The serpent.
Game: Where Art Thou? (about 12 minutes)
Cain and Abel
Genesis 4:1–16 · story film
Adam and Eve’s sons were Cain, a tiller of the ground, and Abel, a keeper of sheep. Abel brought God the firstlings of his flock by faith (Hebrews 11:4), and the LORD had respect unto his offering; but Cain grew angry, did not rule over the sin lying at his door, and killed his brother. God asked, “Where is Abel thy brother?” and sent Cain away, yet in mercy set a mark upon him so that no one would kill him.
Big idea: God sees our hearts, and He wants us to love one another.
Memory verse:
For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
1 John 3:11 (KJV)Ask: What did Cain and Abel each bring to the LORD? Cain brought the fruit of the ground, and Abel brought the firstlings of his flock (Genesis 4:3–4).
Game: Find Your Brother (about 10 minutes)
Noah Builds the Ark
Genesis 6:5–22 · story film
The earth was filled with violence, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD and walked with God. God told Noah to make an ark of gopher wood, three hundred cubits long, with a window above and a door in the side, and to bring in his family and two of every living thing. Noah did everything God commanded him, even before he saw a drop of rain (Hebrews 11:7).
Big idea: Noah trusted God and did all that He commanded.
Memory verse:
Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
Genesis 6:22 (KJV)Ask: What does the Bible say about Noah? He found grace in the eyes of the LORD; he was a just man, and he walked with God (Genesis 6:8–9).
Game: How Big Was the Ark? (about 15 minutes)
The Flood
Genesis 7:1–24 · story film
God told Noah, “Come thou and all thy house into the ark,” and the animals went in two and two. Then the LORD shut him in, the fountains of the great deep broke open, and rain fell forty days and forty nights until even the high hills were covered. Everything outside was lost, but Noah and all who were with him in the ark were kept safe.
Big idea: God keeps His people safe through the storm.
Memory verse:
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Psalm 46:1 (KJV)Ask: How did the animals go into the ark? Two and two, the male and the female (Genesis 7:9).
Game: Into the Ark Before the Rain (about 10 minutes)
The Rainbow Promise
Genesis 8:1–9:17 · story film
God remembered Noah, the waters went down, and the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat. The dove came back with an olive leaf, and when Noah’s family and the animals came out, Noah built an altar to the LORD. God promised never again to destroy the earth with a flood, and He set His bow in the cloud as the token of His covenant.
Big idea: God always keeps His promises.
Memory verse:
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Genesis 9:13 (KJV)Ask: Where did the ark come to rest? Upon the mountains of Ararat (Genesis 8:4).
Game: Rainbow Run (about 8 minutes)
The Tower of Babel
Genesis 11:1–9 · story film
After the flood the whole earth had one language. On a plain in the land of Shinar the people made bricks and began to build a city and a tower whose top might reach unto heaven, to make a name for themselves. The LORD came down, confounded their language so they could not understand one another, and scattered them abroad, so the place was called Babel.
Big idea: All the glory belongs to God, not to us.
Memory verse:
Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth’s sake.
Psalm 115:1 (KJV)Ask: What did the people build with? Brick instead of stone, and slime (a kind of tar) for mortar (Genesis 11:3).
Game: Babel Whisper (about 8 minutes)
God Calls Abram
Genesis 12:1–9 · story film
The LORD told Abram to leave his country, his kindred and his father’s house and go to a land He would show him. God promised to make him a great nation and to bless all the families of the earth through him, a promise that came true in Jesus (Galatians 3:8, 16). Abram obeyed, travelled with Sarai and Lot into the land of Canaan, and built altars to the LORD along the way.
Big idea: When God calls, we can trust Him and go.
Memory verse:
By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
Hebrews 11:8 (KJV)Ask: What did God tell Abram to do? Get out of his country, from his kindred and from his father’s house, unto a land God would shew him (Genesis 12:1).
Game: Pack Up and Go (about 10 minutes)
Abram Lets Lot Choose
Genesis 13:1–18 · story film
Abram and his nephew Lot had so many flocks, herds and tents that the land could not hold them both, and their herdmen began to quarrel. Abram said there should be no strife between them, “for we be brethren,” and he let Lot choose first; Lot chose the well-watered plain of Jordan. Then God told Abram to look northward, southward, eastward and westward, and promised all that land to him and his seed for ever.
Big idea: Peacemakers put others first and trust God to take care of them.
Memory verse:
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Matthew 5:9 (KJV)Ask: Why could Abram and Lot not dwell together? Their substance was so great that the land could not bear them, and their herdmen had strife (Genesis 13:6–7).
Game: Stand Up Together (about 10 minutes)
Count the Stars
Genesis 15:1–6 · story film
The word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield.” Abram still had no child, so God brought him outside, told him to tell the stars if he was able to number them, and said, “So shall thy seed be.” Abram believed the LORD, and God counted it to him for righteousness, as He does for all who believe in Jesus (Romans 4:3, 23–24).
Big idea: God keeps His promises, so we can believe Him.
Memory verse:
And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
Genesis 15:6 (KJV)Ask: What did God say He was to Abram? His shield, and his exceeding great reward (Genesis 15:1).
Game: Count the Stars (about 10 minutes)
Three Visitors
Genesis 18:1–15 · story film
In the heat of the day Abraham saw three men standing by his tent in the plains of Mamre, and he ran to welcome them. He asked Sarah to make cakes quickly, and he served his guests butter, milk and a tender calf under the tree. The LORD promised that Sarah would have a son, and when Sarah laughed, He asked, “Is any thing too hard for the LORD?”
Big idea: Nothing is too hard for the LORD.
Memory verse:
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
Luke 1:37 (KJV)Ask: Where was Abraham when the three men came? Sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day, in the plains of Mamre (Genesis 18:1).
Game: Hurry, Sarah! (about 10 minutes)
Lot Escapes from Sodom
Genesis 18:16–33 · 19:12–29 · story film
When the LORD told Abraham how grievous the sin of Sodom was, Abraham drew near and prayed for the city, asking God to spare it even for ten righteous people. Two angels warned Lot, and when he lingered, they took him, his wife and his two daughters by the hand and led them out, “the LORD being merciful unto him.” They were told not to look back, but Lot’s wife looked back and became a pillar of salt; God remembered Abraham and brought Lot out safe.
Big idea: God is merciful to rescue us, so we follow Him and do not look back.
Memory verse:
Remember Lot’s wife.
Luke 17:32 (KJV)Ask: What did Abraham do when he heard about Sodom? He drew near and prayed for the city (Genesis 18:23–32).
Game: Don’t Look Back! (about 8 minutes)
Isaac Is Born
Genesis 21:1–7 · story film
The LORD did for Sarah just as He had spoken: when Abraham was an hundred years old, Sarah bare him a son at the very time God had promised. Abraham named the baby Isaac, and Sarah said, “God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.” Isaac was the child of promise, and from his family Jesus would one day be born (Matthew 1:1–2).
Big idea: God always does what He says, right on time.
Memory verse:
The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.
Psalm 126:3 (KJV)Ask: Did God keep His promise to Sarah? Yes. The LORD did unto Sarah as He had spoken, and she bare Abraham a son at the set time (Genesis 21:1–2).
Game: The Laughing Game (about 8 minutes)
God Will Provide
Genesis 22:1–19 · story film
God tested Abraham, telling him to offer his only son Isaac on a mountain in the land of Moriah. As they went up, Isaac carried the wood and asked, “Where is the lamb for a burnt offering?” and Abraham answered, “God will provide himself a lamb.” At the altar the angel of the LORD called out of heaven to stop him, and God provided a ram caught in a thicket in the stead of his son; long after, God gave His own Son, Jesus, the Lamb of God (John 1:29; Romans 8:32).
Big idea: God provides what we need, and He gave Jesus, the Lamb, for us.
Memory verse:
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
Genesis 22:8 (KJV)Ask: What did Isaac carry up the mountain? The wood for the burnt offering (Genesis 22:6).
Game: Find the Ram (about 10 minutes)
A Bride for Isaac
Genesis 24:1–67 · story film
Abraham sent his eldest servant to his own kindred to find a wife for Isaac. At the well outside the city of Nahor the servant prayed for a sign, and before he had done speaking, Rebekah came with her pitcher, gave him drink and drew water for all his camels. The servant worshipped the LORD who had led him, Rebekah said, “I will go,” and Isaac took her to be his wife and loved her.
Big idea: God guides those who pray and trust Him.
Memory verse:
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Proverbs 3:6 (KJV)Ask: Where did the servant stop to pray? By a well of water outside the city of Nahor, at the time of the evening (Genesis 24:10–12).
Game: Ten Camels (about 10 minutes)
Plan it as a series: 8 weeks
| Week 1 | God Made Everything (Genesis 1:1–2:3). God made everything, and He made it good. |
|---|---|
| Week 2 | The Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:4–25). God gives us good gifts and good work to do. |
| Week 3 | Where Art Thou? (Genesis 3:1–24). When we sin, God comes looking for us. |
| Week 4 | Cain and Abel (Genesis 4:1–16). God sees our hearts, and He wants us to love one another. |
| Week 5 | Noah Builds the Ark (Genesis 6:5–22). Noah trusted God and did all that He commanded. |
| Week 6 | The Flood (Genesis 7:1–24). God keeps His people safe through the storm. |
| Week 7 | The Rainbow Promise (Genesis 8:1–9:17). God always keeps His promises. |
| Week 8 | The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1–9). All the glory belongs to God, not to us. |
Each week: welcome and pray, show the story film, talk through the questions, learn the memory verse, then color the page or do the class sheet.
Memory verses about the book of Genesis (KJV)
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
Genesis 1:1 · God Made Everything
“And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.”
Genesis 2:15 · The Garden of Eden
“And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?”
Genesis 3:9 · Where Art Thou?
“For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.”
1 John 3:11 · Cain and Abel
“Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.”
Genesis 6:22 · Noah Builds the Ark
“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”
Psalm 46:1 · The Flood
“I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.”
Genesis 9:13 · The Rainbow Promise
“Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth’s sake.”
Psalm 115:1 · The Tower of Babel
Questions people ask
What is the book of Genesis about?
Genesis is the book of beginnings: creation, the fall, the flood, and God’s promises to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph.
Which Bible stories teach the book of Genesis?
God Made Everything (Genesis 1:1–2:3), The Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:4–25), Where Art Thou? (Genesis 3:1–24), Cain and Abel (Genesis 4:1–16), Noah Builds the Ark (Genesis 6:5–22), and 11 more on this page.
Are these lessons free?
Yes. Every lesson, film, coloring page, class sheet and game is free for churches, families and schools, with no subscription, no cost per child and no sign-up needed to teach.
Which Bible translation is used?
The films and memory verses show the King James Version word for word. In the lessons you can switch the verses to the Berean Standard Bible, the ESV or dozens of other English Bibles, every verse is labelled with its translation, and tapping a verse on the film opens its whole chapter.
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