Noah's Ark and RAINBOWS!!!!

Can you think of a more fitting story for this time of year than that of Noah and the Ark?  I know I can't!  It's a story that everyone should know!  The best part of this story is that fact that it's truth!  We all grow up hearing these stories, but have you ever taken time to reflect upon it as truth?  Can you even imagine what it would have felt like it to have been on that ark?  Witnessing 40 days and 40 nights of flooding? Another neat thing about the flood, is that most people imagine it happening as rain, but the Bible tells us it was not only rain, but that water came up out of the earth.  The Bible says, "In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights" (Genesis 7:11–12).

Noah and his family were actually on the ark for over a year!  It took MONTHS for the waters to go down, and even longer to dry enough to live on the land.  Can you even imagine that?!


If you would like to read the WHOLE story about Noah and the ark, you can find it in the book of Genesis.

Today, a really EXCITING thing happened at school:  The kids got to actually MEET NOAH!!!!  Can yiou believe it?! He showed up to talk to us about God's love for us and the promise he made to us after the flood!

The kids heard all about Noah, and they also got to experience a little bit of what it would be like to be on the ark. 

 

The first thing they had to do was build the ark, then they entered the ark and prepared for the flood.  Did you know that it took many many years to build the ark?  We built ours in just a few minutes.  After we boarded the ark we had to prepare ourselves for the rain.  

 The boat started rocking and shaking, and we could even hear the rain!  It was amazing!  After the flood was over, God made a promise:  "I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth." Genesis 9:13.  Since God used a rainbow to show us his promise to us, we also made rainbows today!!!

We used water color paint and salt to make our rainbows!  They all turned out so beautiful!  We made another kind of very special, very DELICIOUS rainbow today too. . .we made Rainbow Cake!

The first thing we did was mix together our cake batter.  The kids got to help dump in the ingredients and mix up the cake.  Then we divided it into bowls, and colored the batter into rainbow colors.  After that we started our rainbow. . .

We took spoonfuls of batter, and just piled them on top of eachother.  Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple. . .over and over. . .until we had this: 

This is what our cake looks like before we bake it. . .all layered up.  Many many colors.  Then, we baked it, cooled it, frosted it, and cut it.

Each kid got to eat their very own piece of our rainbow!  How neat is that?!  It turned out so pretty and they were so surprised to the rainbow stripes in their cake!

They all LOVED their cake!