A Lesson Plan Adventure With Brown Things

Using a brown bear hand puppet (such as the one below), introduce the session and get the bear to greet the children by name and then show an interest in the brown things on the table. Talk about the natural color of brown.
Get the bear to ask the children what the meaning is of the color brown (stability, reliability) and talk about what this means, using questions such as, are they reliable etc.

You will need:
A bear mask template for each child (e.g. like the one above),
brown crayons, scissors, hole punch, hole reinforcers, elastic.
Draw an outline of a teddy bear's face onto card and give one to each child to color. Punch holes at the sides to thread elastic, checking for the right length for each child.

Using this book for your storytime the children will be able to feel the different animals and get a surprise when you lift the flap at the end.
The question is, why did Noah build such a big boat and how can we be saved from the floods of life?

When the children are seated at the table, provide brown bread, spreadable butter and honey. Whilst helping them to butter their bread, ask them which animals like honey. Talk about why brown bread is better for us than white and how it can make our bodies more efficient and stable.

If time, instead of providing ready-made bread, bring a batch of proved dough and allow the children to form a pair of animals that went into the ark. Bake in an oven and once cooled they could eat one there and take the other one home. You could play the game below whilst they are cooling.

Two opposite walls are "home".
One or two children are stuckers.
They try to catch the others. It they touch them, that child has to stick their arms out, freeze and shout- "Stuck!"
Anyone else can free them by touching them.
If stuckers manage to get everyone stuck, they've won!