The Tower of Babel is the story of people who tried to build a city and a tower up to heaven to make a name for themselves. God came down, mixed up their language and scattered them over the whole earth (Genesis 11:1-9). This page gives you the story in simple words for kids and a short teaching skit taken straight from the NASB.
Use the skit in a Sunday school or children’s church classroom. You need four readers (Narrator, Person 1, Person 2 and The Lord). A Shinar sign and cardboard bricks are optional. Talk with the kids first about listening to the words and acting out what is read. It takes about 5 minutes, and being in the story helps kids remember it.
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The Tower of Babel Story for Kids (Genesis 11:1-9)
- After the flood, everyone on earth spoke one language.
- People moved east and settled on a plain in the land of Shinar.
- They said, “Let’s make bricks and build a city with a tower that reaches to heaven. Then we will make a name for ourselves and not be scattered.”
- The Lord came down to see the city and the tower.
- God mixed up their language so they could not understand each other.
- The people stopped building, and God scattered them over the whole earth. The city was called Babel.
What Does the Tower of Babel Teach Kids?
The people wanted to make a name for themselves instead of honoring God (Genesis 11:4). God is greater than anything people can build. He saw their tower, and He was still in charge. Ask kids: why do you think the people wanted everyone to know their name? Whose name should we want people to know?
Tower of Babel Skit for Kids
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Characters and Props
Characters:
- Narrator
- Person 1
- Person 2
- The Lord
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Props (optional)
- Shinar sign
- Cardboard bricks (enough to make a tower)
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Tower of Babel Skit Script (NASB)
(All characters, except The Lord, can be in the stage area)
Narrator: Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words.
Narrator: It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. (People can move towards the Shinar sign)
Person 1: Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly. (Characters can act like they are making bricks)
Narrator: And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
Person 2: Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth. (Characters can build or act like they are building a tower)
(“The Lord” enters)
Narrator: The Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
The Lord: Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.
Narrator: So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.
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