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Rainbow Promise

1. Show the two elements that make a rainbow.
2. Find who saw their very first rainbow in Gen. 9:8-17.
3. What is a covenant?
4. What does the rainbow promise us?
5. What colors make up the rainbow? Create your own rainbow with the colors in their correct order.
6. Where will we find a rainbow in heaven?

Helps
1. Create a rainbow with water and light or demonstrate with a prism.
2. Put each event of the story of Noah on index cards. Have the children draw a card from a box or container and put it in the correct sequence.
3. Find covenant in an elementary dictionary. Discuss the meaning with the children until they understand that it means promise. Have the children print the word PROMISE on a card.
4. Read Gen. 9:11 and/or Gen. 8:21.
5. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. An easy way to remember the order is to think it as a man's name—Roy G. Biv.

The following are the colors and examples of God's awesome chracter:
Red—Redeemer—Ephesians 1:7.
Orange—Offering—John 1:29. (The Lamb was a sacrifice offering for sin.)
Yellow—YEAH!—God is always cheering for us. (Example: The Lost Coin, Luke 15:8-10.)
Green—Giving—John 3:16.
Blue—BIG—Our God is awesome. (Example: Moses and the Red Sea.)
Ingido—Imannuel—Matt. 1:23.
Violet—Victorious—Psalm 60:12.
Rainbow craft: Using felt strips, glue, a dowel, glitter, and printed words for God's character, make a beautiful rainbow.
Each of us are like little drops of rain that God uses to refresh the earth (our family, our home, our friends, our neighbors). When we let the light of Jesus shine through us, others will see the rainbow of His love. Invite the children to let Jesus make their life like a rainbow.

6. Revelation 4:3