Noah's Ark

• Children love animals, so Noah's Ark can engage them while teaching a Bible lesson. Begin by carpeting your nursery with a sea blue to signify when Noah was at sea for 40 days and nights. Next, paint a giant ark on one of the walls. The other walls should contain two animals of each kind. Use animals the children will recognize, and some that they won't. This provides you with a chance to teach them about a new animal. Add stuffed animals to your nursery so children can match them with the animals on the wall. Hang some fake doves (can be made from white construction paper) and some fake olive branches, symbolizing when Noah sent out a dove and it brought back an olive branch in its mouth. Keep some Noah's Ark coloring books and Bible books around so that the children can use them while their parents are in church.
  
  

Adam and Eve

• Adam and Eve are the first two people that God created and are therefore one of the first stories mentioned in the Bible. You will want to carpet your nursery with a green grass-colored carpet to simulate the grass from the Garden of Eden. Paint Adam and Eve clothed in animal skins walking through the garden on one wall. Another wall can include several trees. One should be loaded with apples. You can also paint any animals that may be walking around in the garden. Include a snake to represent the snake that tricked Adam and Eve in to eating the apple. You can also paint a river or lake on another wall which is where Adam and Eve would get something to drink. Have some stuffed animals that match the animals on the walls in the nursery. Hang some clouds from the ceiling. Then provide some Adam and Eve picture and coloring books for the children.
  
  

Daniel and the Lions' Den

• Daniel and the Lions' Den is another classic story from the Bible. Use a gray rug in the nursery to represent the cave that Daniel was in. On one wall paint a giant cave. Paint Daniel sitting among the lions. Have the lions appear friendly so that they don't scare the children. Daniel can even be petting them. Above Daniel you will need to paint an angel. An angel kept the lions' mouths shut so that they wouldn't hurt Daniel. On another wall you can paint Daniel and the king bowing down together to worship God, which, in the story, occured after Daniel was removed from the den. You can hang clouds from the ceiling because God gave Daniel the ability to interpret dreams. Otherwise, you can hang angels from the ceiling to show the children that they too have an angel watching over them. Provide the children with some stuffed lions so they can pretend they were in the lions' den. Set out some Daniel in the Lions' Den picture and coloring books.