Let There Be Light

• To represent the first day of creation, when God created light, use a glow stick to literally give off light. While repeating the story to the children have them trace a small cup on construction paper and then draw sun-like rays branching out from it. Cut out the rays and discard the excess paper. Using an x-acto knife, cut an 'X' in the middle of the paper for the children. Crack a light stick for each child and have them insert it in to the 'X' in the middle of the paper, pushing it down so it sits in the middle. Attach string to the top of the stick and hang them around the room to represent the creation of light.
  
  

Light Shapes

• To show the holiness of each thing created by God, etch shapes on the light stick to decorate it. Melt black crayons in a heat-proof bowl in the oven at 250 degrees. Using a paintbrush, quickly paint over newly cracked light sticks until they are completely black. Let it dry. Have children draw different images, people or animals from the creation story, using a dulled wooden skewer to scratch off the black crayon. Keep the etchings simple, as the sticks are narrow and small. Use the widest sticks you can find.
  
  

Celestial Mobile

• To show the creation of the stars in the sky, as well as the sun and the moon, create a mobile using light sticks. Have the children cut out small shapes of moons, stars and suns out of colored construction paper, or have stickers ready if they are too young to use scissors. Cover the light sticks with one shape per light stick, having several designated for stars and only one each for the moon and one for the sun. Attach string to the tops of them and attach them to either a cross mobile frame or a circular one.
  
  

Play

• Have children rehearse the creation story with hand actions, or have each child recite a day and what happened on it. Have them perform for their parents at the end of Sunday School time, or if prepared for several weeks to the entire church, as an illustration of the sermon that day. During the first day, have children hide uncracked light sticks in the pockets or inside their shirts. Situate the room in complete darkness. When the line is read out "let there be light," have the children bring out their light sticks and crack them, waving them slowly above their heads.