Noah's Ark in the Park

Back in the fall, I took the boys to the park to measure out the size of Noah's ark. It is an idea from our Student of the Word curriculum while we were studying Genesis 6-9. We took orange cones and a measuring tape with us. We measured out 450ft. for the length and 75ft for width. We just imagined the height. (Of course, the ark may have been bigger- Noah's "cubit" was probably bigger than ours'. But this is the average measurement.)

I didn't take any pictures, so when we were at the park yesterday (I can't believe how fast all the snow melted!) we took pictures. In this picture, you can see my husband holding 5mo daughter, 2yo, and 6yo all standing by the light pole. That is where we started measuring.

The second picture is the other end of the ark, where 4yo is standing. You might be able to see my husband still standing in the same spot way back there.

We also "built" a little paper model of the ark that I found online to show what it probably looked like. I have tried to save it from total destruction long enough to take this picture. I took it just in time, too, because 4yo completely smashed it in the mud when he was "driving a race car" to get back to where the rest of the family was, and wiped out.


It was kind of amusing to see the looks on people's faces the day we were measuring the ark's dimensions after I told them what we were doing. They didn't know whether to take me seriously. And one little boy had never even heard of Noah's ark- or the Bible.