Noah’s Ark Craft

Just as Noah searched for the animals to load on to the ark, children can go through magazines looking for pictures of animals to cut out to add to their ark. While reading the story of Noah’s Ark, have the children imagine the diverse group of animals that Noah found to load onto the ark. Read the Bible story of Noah while children find animals to add to the ark.

It is unlikely that you will find pairs of animals in the magazines, but this activity encourages children to search for the animals as Noah did. Print out and color a rainbow for the ark. You can attach Noah’s Ark and the rainbow with yarn to create a mobile that can be hung up in the classroom.

Gathering Supplies

Print out the Rainbow stencil on the white printer paper. Print out the Noah’s Ark stencil on brown paper. If you don’t have brown printer paper, children can trace the ark template on brown construction paper. A brown paper bag will also work.

Assembling the Noah’s Ark Craft

Start by having children go through old magazines and cutting out pictures of the different animals that they can find.

Have children cut out the rainbow and color with crayons or markers according to the colors indicated on the printout.

Next, cut out the ark. Cut apart the top roof portion from the bottom part. Take a 7″ piece of masking tape and carefully add it to the back part of the ark roof, only overlap about 1/4″. And again attach to the bottom part of the ark so that there is about a 2″ strip of masking tape between the top and bottom sections of the boat – sticky side out. (If this is too difficult with younger children, they can cut a rectangle piece of construction paper to tape to the two sections of the boat and then use glue to attach the animals.

Children can now attach the animals to the sticky side of the masking tape on the ark.

Finish by attaching yarn or string behind the rainbow and ark to create a mobile.