Tower of Babel, Genesis 11

Tower of Babel, Genesis 11

Digital Resources

• Storytellers:  Tower of Babel
• Tower of Babel by Saddleback Kids
•  The Beginner's Bible App  Stories:  The Tall Tower (This app is good for several reasons.  As the text is read, each word is highlighted, so it's excellent for beginning readers.  This is an app version of The Beginner's Bible, so it's good to have the printed book for kids to use at home too. In class we wait until the text has been read and then take turns with the interactive parts.)
• Bible for Kids App Stories:  No story

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Print Resources

• Beginner's Bible, "The Tall Tower", page 34
• Read With Me Bible, "The Tower of Babel", page 36

Prop Resources and Activities

FARM animals

Make different animal sounds.  Ask, "What animal makes that sound?"  Ask, "Do you know what the animal is saying?"  Point:  We don't understand animals, what if we suddenly couldn't understand other people?

Note:  I didn’t realize I hadn’t prepared for this enough.  I knew I had 2 buckets of little animals at church and thought I would just pull out some of them and talk about what they “said”.  First animal was a giraffe, next was a deer, and most of the others just said, “ROAR!”  It’s good to use FARM animals.

Legos and Blocks

While the children are building towers as tall as they can, ask them questions, wait for their answers, and then discuss.

• Do you need to use your hands (eyes, arms) to make this tower?  Yes?  Who gave you your hands?  God did?

• Do you need light?  Who made the light?  God did on Day 1.

Point:  God provided all I needed.  AND He provided all the people building the tower needed.  They thought they did it all by themselves!

Share if you can expand on this or have additional ideas.

Song(s)

The Tower of Babel

Genesis 11
Tune:  On Top of Old Smoky

We’ll build a great city from bricks that we bake.

 All of the world will think we are great!

 We’ll build a tall tower that reaches the sky.

All of the world will see just how high.

All good things come

 from God up above,

But we don’t even thank him.

It’s all about us.

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Uh-OH!

So God changed the way they talked and discussed.

 

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Tower of Babel Song

Tune:  He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands

In the whole world they talked the same.

In the whole world they talked the same.

In the whole world they talked the same.

They were proud and forgot about God.

We’ll build a tower to the sky from brick we make.

We’ll build a tower to the sky from brick we make.

We’ll build a tower to the sky from brick we make.

They were proud and forgot about God.

We’ll build a great big city from bricks we make.

We’ll build a great big city from bricks we make.

We’ll build a great big city from bricks we make.

They were proud and forgot about God.

We’ll stay in the land of Shinar on this plain.

We’ll stay in the land of Shinar on this plain.

We’ll stay in the land of Shinar on this plain.

They were proud and forgot about God.

God came down and changed the way they talked!

God came down and changed the way they talked!

God came down and changed the way they talked!

Then He scattered them all over the Earth.

Remember to thank God for what you can do.

Remember to thank God for what you can do.

Remember to thank God for what you can do.

All your blessings come from Him.

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YES and NO People Song:

There are YES people.

There are YES people.

There are YES people who say,

“Yes, I’ll do the right thing!  YES! Every day!”

There are NO people.

There are NO people.

There are NO people who say,

“NO, I WON’T do the right thing!  NO! I'll do it my way!”

Point:  We need to mind God and do what he says.  The people building the tower were supposed to move to lots of different places instead of all just staying there. 

 

Vocabulary

City 
Babel
Tower
Provide
Provided