Sunday School Crafts and Activities

Moses

Miriam Helped Her Family Bible Lesson - Baby Moses in a Basket

Scripture Reference: Exodus 2:1-10
Concepts - Family members help, you can help.

Crafts and Activities:

1. Make Moses in a basket craft. Print out the pattern (Large file or small file) of the basket and Baby Moses onto card stock and cut them out. Punch holes all around the sides of the basket. Have your children lace string through they holes so that they lace two baskets together.  Cut out around Moses' hands and chin (but leave his shoulders connected) so that they fit over the basket and look like he is holding on.

2. Play with baby dolls, blankets, and baskets. Talk about baby Moses floating in the water in the river.

3. Make crowns.  Decorate crowns and talk about the princess who found baby Moses. (Large file or small file)

4. Pretend to be the princess.  Have the children wear the crowns they made and look for baby Moses which is hidden somewhere in the room.

5. Make a head band from construction paper and have your children glue on bits of foil or tissue paper to make a wonderful princesses crown. (Sent in by Jeannette)

6. Play a sink or float game -Bring in a bunch of small toys and objects, some that float and some that don't. Pass out one toy or object per child, (Make sure when you pass them out that they know they can't keep them, if that is the case, or just pick objects that the children won't be interested in like pencils, nuts and bolts, etc.) Remind them that Moses' mother put tar all over the basket to make it float in the water before you start the game.  Call one child at a time and ask him if he thinks his object will float on top of the water like Baby Moses' basket or sink. Then let him or her drop it into a bucket of water to see if he or she was correct. 

7. Make a Moses in the Bulrushes 3D craft - This great idea comes from Margaret Carey off our bulletin board:  We did this craft with our 3 and 4 year olds. Get a plastic plate and cover it with cotton wool.  Have the children dampen it and sprinkle wheat seeds over it. The children were all given a tiny doll, 1-2 cms, (You can find them in the cake decorating section) and cloth to wrap it in. This was placed in a tiny jam tart tin (or foil) and put in the middle of the plate. The children took them home and sprayed the cotton wool with water and watched the Bulrushes grow around Moses to hide him. They loved it and it has left a lasting impression of the lesson. Thanks for sharing your ideas, Margaret.

8. Baby Moses in a Jell-O Cup - I made some blue Jell-O and put it in individual clear plastic cups. (This represents the river.) Next, I let the children squirt a mound of canned whipping cream on top. They pushed it down in the center with the bowl of a spoon. (This made the basket.)  Next, they put a green grape in the indentation (This was the body of the baby.) A banana slice made up the face of the baby. Finally, we added thin pretzel sticks around 1/2 of the edge of the Jell-O (These were the bulrushes.)  The kids really loved it and talked about it for months. All the moms had to go out and get blue Jell-O and all the fixings so they could do it again at home.

9. Jelly Baby Moses - We made an edible Baby Moses using marzipan and jelly babies. (Jelly candies in the shapes of babies sold in Britain. You can use jellybeans as a substitute. And if you don't want to use marzipan, you can use rolling icing instead of marzipan.) The children molded a small piece of marzipan into a basket shape and placed their "Moses" jelly baby inside.

10. Sock Baby Moses - I work with 3-4 year olds and they love the Baby Moses story.  For a craft we take brown paper lunch bags and cut them off about 2 inches from the bottom so they look like little baskets.  Next I take some of my young son's old socks (cleaned and bleached!), stuff the toe area with cotton balls, give it a twist and then pull the ribbed area over the twist.  Thus we have the baby's head with a blanket.  I glue on doll hair on the toe area (doll hair from any craft store) before class.  Each child decorates his/her "basket" and then we use markers to make the eyes, happy or sad face and then they run the markers up and down the sock ribbing to make a stripped blanket.  We put our babies in the baskets and send them down the river (slide them down a table). Sent in by Trish Juranitch

"You Can Do Important Things" Sunday School Lesson - Children will learn that even though they are young, they are still  important to God. God loves them very much, and he can use them to do great things. This lesson is available on The Resource Room a subscription site. You can find the following crafts and activities on The Resource Room

1. " I Can Do Important Things" Book - Children draw picture of important things they can do in a book. The other children in the class try to guess what the pictures represent.

2. Make baby Moses in a Basket - Child weave the basket and color the picture of Moses.

3. Learn the Bible Verse Game - (Younger or Older Children) Before class print out the basket patterns (Available of The Resource Room) onto card stock.  Cut them out and glue the patterns back to back.  In class turn over all the baskets so that the side with the blankets are showing. Let your children take turns guessing which basket Baby Moses is in.  Play like the old shell game, mixing up the baskets while the children try to follow the one that Moses is in.  If a child guesses correctly, the next child takes a turn.  If a child is wrong, he or she has to say the memory verse and then try again until he or she finds the right basket.

Play a "Find Baby Moses" Game - (Younger Children) Tell the children that you are going to play a game. One of them will be Moses' mother and she will hide Baby Moses. The other children will pretend to be the princess (if you would like you could have them wear crowns or make crowns to use in this game. You may be able to get crowns from Burger King). Send all the children out of the room except "Baby Moses' mother".  Help the child hide the baby. If you have a very small room and not many hiding places for a real baby doll, you can use the craft picture of Baby Moses and tape the baby under chairs and table and on the walls.  When the baby is hidden, call the "princesses in to find Baby Moses". Whoever finds the baby gets to hide him.  Play until every child gets a turn. If you think this activity will get too noisy, you can have a Baby Moses hidden before class and when activity time comes tell them to find the baby.

 

Moses and the Burning Bush Bible Lesson

"Moses is Called to Help the Israelites" Sunday School Lesson - The following Crafts and Activities come from The Resource Room. A complete lesson is available to members. In this lesson a child acts out the lesson as the teacher reads the story.

Crafts:

1. Burning Bush Picture - Children color the trunk and the leaves with crayons. Provide yellow, orange, and red watercolor paints. Dilute the paints so they are very runny. Quickly drop small blobs of watercolor paint on the trunk and branches of the tree. Show your children how to use a straw to blow the paint in different directions to make it look like flames. Try blowing from the sides and the top down. A pattern for this craft is available on The Resource Room.

2. Make a Life-sized Burning Bush - Before class cut a trunk and branch shape from brown construction paper or bulletin board paper. In class have your children cut out leaf and flame shapes from green, red, yellow, and orange construction paper and tape them to the bush. You can make a 3-D bush by tying fake plastic branches together. Place them in a vase or pot to help it stand up. Have your children tape leaves and flames to the branches. Use this to act out the story during the lesson. (Don't use real branches because they may be to sharp and a child could poke himself when trying to tape on the leaves.)

3. Three Dimensional Burning Bush - Cut hand-drawn bushes with branches sticking up from manila folders so that you end up with two matching bushes.  Have children color both sides of each bush and glue on small leaves. Cut a slit half way up one of the bush trunks and on the other trunk cut a slit halfway down the trunk. Put the bushes together at the slits so you have a 3-D tree. Cut red and orange party streamers into small strips and glue them to the tree for fire. (Note: K and 1st graders glued way too much fire to the top of the branches and made the tree top-heavy. The second - fifth graders did it just right!) Sent in by Leda Hays

Activities - The following activity ideas come from The Resource Room.

1. Pass the Items Review Game - You will need: A leaf from a bush, sheep (stuffed animal), sandals, staff (rolled up newspapers), snake, and a cup. Have your children sit in a circle on the floor. Hand out all the items that were displayed in front of the class. Have your children pass them around the room as you play some music for a few minutes. When the music stops call out the name of one item. The child who is holding that items should then tell you and the class how it relates to the story. Keep playing until you have reviewed each item.

2. Missing Item Review Game - You will need: A leaf from a bush, sheep (stuffed animal), sandals, staff (rolled up newspapers), snake, dress up clothes, and a cup of water. Display the items from the lesson in front of the room. Tell your children to turn around and close their eyes while you remove and hide one of the items. Then tell them to turn around and raise their hands if they think they know which item is missing. Call on a child to tell which item is missing and how it relates to the story.

3. Bible Verse Review Game - (Younger or Older) Use the burning bush display the children helped you make during the opening activities. Cut leaf shapes from green construction paper. Write the words from the Bible verse on some of the leaves. Tape them to the bush shape with the words hidden from view. Remind your children that Moses saw the bush that was on fire, but didn't burn up. Write the Bible verse on the board in big letters and tell your children what it says. Have your children take turns picking a leaf from the tree and turning it over to see if has a word written on the back. If it has a word, the child should tape it to the board under the matching word on the board. Have them read the Bible verse each time a new word is added. If you have older children who can read, don't write the Bible verse on the board. Each time a child finds a word, have him or her tape it to the board and try to put the words that have been found so far in order to make the Bible verse.

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Create a Classroom Memory Book for Your Children

Scrapbook pages of your Sunday school lessons and activities are a great way to help your children review and remember what they have learned. It is also a great way to get shy children to open up. Children will love seeing pictures of themselves.

You can also display the pages in your room to let parents know what your children have been doing and learning in class. This will also encourage your children to share what they have been learning with their parents.

Older children would also enjoy making memory pages of their lessons. This will also help them to remember what they have learned.

For directions on how to make this page go to the Sunday School Scrapbook Page.

Moses and the Plagues of Egypt Bible Lesson, Crafts, and Activity Ideas

"God Will Help Me" (Lesson for younger children) - In this lesson children learn about Moses and the plagues of Egypt. They learn that God helped the Israelites escape from Egypt and he will help them.  This lesson uses the frog theme.  Children can make a paper plate frog that hold's the memory verse in his mouth, a rock frog on a paper plate lily pad, or a Bible verse pyramid. They can play pass the frog beanbag game, musical chairs lily pad game, or find out what the Bible verse is by taking things out of Froggy's mouth. They will be amazed at the things Froggy has eaten besides the words to the Bible verse. A bulletin board display also comes wit this lesson. This lesson is available on The Resource Room a subscription site.

Copyright Notice - While many of the crafts on this site are free, they are still copyrighted. They are for personal use only. They may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, except for local church, school, home use, etc. It is illegal to copy any part of this craft and place it on another web site, bulletin board, or personal web site. To request permission to copy this material for any other use than personal use contact me by e-mail.

"God will Help You" - "The Plagues of Egypt" (Lesson for Older Children) - In this lesson your children pretend they are Egyptians or Israelites.  They "experience" some of the same plagues the Egyptians and Israelites experienced and learn how God showed his power and helped the Israelites escape from Egypt. They color paper Egyptian beaded collars to be used by the Egyptians during the interactive lesson. The teacher uses paper gnats, grasshoppers, and flies during the lesson to reenact the plagues. They play Bible Verse Leap Frog to study the Bible verse.

Bible Verse Leap Frog: Before class write one word of the Bible verse on four different lily pads cut from construction paper. Tape one lily pad to each wall in your room. Cut out frogs and write one word of the verse on each frog. Make enough frogs so that each child in your class will have a complete Bible verse when you are finished. In class show the children the lily pads and tell them what they say. Tell the children that on the word go, they should each pick up one frog off the floor (from the lesson) and go to the wall with the lily pad that has the same word as the frog they picked up off the floor. When all the children have found the right wall, tell them that when you point to them they are to leap up into the air and say the word on their frogs. Start with the first word of the verse and go around the room. Once they get the idea, have them do it a little faster. “God will help you.” You can also mix up the order so that the words say, “Will God help you?” Have the children answer “yes”. Keep playing this game until all the frogs are off the floor.

When they are finished tell the children to find four frogs with each to the four words so that they have a complete Bible verse to take home and study.

Make a Bible Verse picture - Have the children glue their frogs and some of the flies, grasshoppers, and gnats, and cotton balls from the lesson onto a piece of paper and then write the Bible verse on the bottom of the paper. The children can take the paper home to study their verse. As an incentive you can tell them they will get a frog sticker next week if they can tell you the verse.

Make Bible Verse Pyramid Craft - The directions and a pattern can be found on the Resource Room.

Make a frog from a smooth rock craft - Go to Craft Page 20 for directions and a pattern.

This lesson is available on The Resource Room a subscription site.

Plague Cupcakes - Bring in cupcakes and things to decorate like red gel for blood, green gumdrops for frogs, chocolate sprinkles for gnats and so on. Let kids choose a plague and then decorate their cupcake with that theme. Make at least one cupcake for each of the nine plagues. Share cupcakes with the older kids. Sent in by Maria O'Meara.

Comments from Teachers:

When we did the plagues, I went to a party store and found 2 big rubber flies that I attached to fishing lines and dowel rods. My older youth flew them over our heads   I also found plastic frogs that I put in plastic food storage containers, in a pot, a water jug, and under a pillow.  I also found wind up grasshoppers that "hopped" around.  I used a plastic goat and cow for the sick animals.  I put red circle dots for the boils, I used brown rice that was dropped above their heads for the gnats,  I made black masks for the darkness, used small marshmallows for the hail, red food coloring in water for the water into blood, and a stuffed lamb to explain Passover.  I had a mother who made hail cookies, cow cookies, fly cookies, and frog cookies.  Isn't God wonderful to provide those talented and willing mothers?  I made a game board from foam sheets (you could use construction paper) and set it up in bowling pin pattern and numbered them 1-10.  The children used a stuffed frog and told the plague associated with the number.

Just a few suggestions to help others make the Word of God come alive.  I love your web site and use it often.  Thanks to you and all your subscribers for sharing with me! God bless, Carol

 

Copyright Notice - While many of the crafts on this site are free, they are still copyrighted. They are for personal use only. They may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, except for local church, school, home use, etc. It is illegal to copy any part of this craft and place it on another web site, bulletin board, or personal web site. To request permission to copy this material for any other use than personal use contact me by e-mail.

Moses Crosses the Red Sea Bible Lesson and Craft Ideas

Crafts:

1. Moses Stretching Out His Hand Craft for Younger Children - Children can lower and raise Moses' hand. This craft is available to members of The Resource Room only.

2. Help Get Ready for Class - (Older Children) Early arrivers can help make the cloud and pillar of fire and set up the room for the lesson: Blow up balloons, set up the red sea, make Moses' staff, pick out Bible costumes, etc.

3. Memory Book Pages - Older children would also enjoy making memory pages of their lessons. This will also help them to remember what they have learned.

Go to the Sunday School Scrapbook Page for directions.

4. God Leads Us Book - Children color a mini book about God leading the Israelites. This book is available to members of The Resource Room only.

God showed them the way
With a cloud by day,
And at night
He used a bright firelight.

He leads us today in another way.
Open your Bible and you will see
How you can also be free.

Copyright Notice - While many of the crafts on this site are free, they are still copyrighted. They are for personal use only. They may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, except for local church, school, home use, etc. It is illegal to copy any part of this craft and place it on another web site, bulletin board, or personal web site. To request permission to copy this material for any other use than personal use contact me by e-mail.

5. Moses Parts the Red Sea Fun Foam Craft - (Older Children)

This craft kit can be purchased from Oriental Trading Company (12 kits for $7.95). Children glue the pieces together. (Follow the link to Oriental Trading Company above and type in 48/2224 in the search box at the top of the page.

 

Activities:

1. Part the Red Sea Balloon Game - Before class blow up a lot of blue balloons and place them in the middle of the floor. Divide your children up into two teams. Each team should stand at opposite ends of the room. Remind your children that God separated the water so that there was a wall of water on both sides and dry land on which the Israelites could walk. Tell them that they are going to "separate" the water and see who can make the biggest wall of "water". Demonstrate how to pick up a balloon, rub it on yourself or the carpet and then get it to stick to the wall.

On the word go each child should grab a balloon from the pile on the floor, rub the balloon on his or her clothes or hair and try to stick it to the wall on his team's side of the room. If a child gets it to stick on the wall, he can then go and get another balloon. After a certain amount of time call out, "Stop!" Count the number of balloons stuck to each wall. The team with the most wins. This idea comes from The Resource Room.

Copyright Notice - While many of the crafts and activities on this site are free, they are still copyrighted. They are for personal use only. They may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, except for local church, school, home use, etc. It is illegal to copy any part of this activity and place it on another web site, bulletin board, or personal web site. To request permission to copy this material for any other use than personal use contact me by e-mail.

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2. Bible Verse Review Game - Write the words of the Bible verse on the balloons, one word per balloon. Make two sets. Divide your children up into two teams. Write the Bible verse on the board so all the children can see it. Go over it several times. Use only part of the verse for younger children. On the word "go" each team should try to put their set of balloons in order to spell out the Bible verse. The team that does it first wins.

If you have very young children, don't divide them up into teams. Just place all the balloons in the center of the room. Show your children the first word of the verse and then ask them to see if the can find the word on one of the balloons. When a child has found the right balloon tape the balloon to the wall. Keep playing until all the words have been found. This idea comes from The Resource Room.

Copyright Notice - While many of the crafts and activities on this site are free, they are still copyrighted. They are for personal use only. They may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, except for local church, school, home use, etc. It is illegal to copy any part of this activity and place it on another web site, bulletin board, or personal web site. To request permission to copy this material for any other use than personal use contact me by e-mail.

3. Re-enactment - Use a large blue sheet to represent the Red Sea. Lay the sheet on the floor, an adult holding each side. Divide the class into two groups. Have the Egyptians pursue the Israelites to the edge of the sheet. Say, “Do not be afraid, the Lord will protect.” Raise the sheet and let the Israelites run under the sheet to the other side. When the Egyptians pursue, bring the sheet down on top of them. Take turns. Sent in by Maria O'Meara.

4. Jell-O Re-enactment - Make a loaf pan of red Jell-O. Print out little people. (You can glue them on craft sticks if you want.) Part the "Red Sea" by stacking Jell-O to the sides of the pan. Have the stick people walk through the parted Jell-O. Sent in by Kay

 

A complete lesson about Moses crossing the Red Sea is available on The Resource Room including crafts, activities, songs, etc.

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Moses - The Israelites Complain about Manna Bible Lesson

"Manna Again " Bible Lesson - In this lesson your children learn that God wants us to be happy with what we have. This lesson is a part of the ABC series of lessons. It comes with a Bible phrase card, color sheet, and a game. This lesson is available on The Resource Room a subscription site. The following crafts and activity ideas come from The Resource Room:

Craft and Activity Ideas:

1. Help The Children Gather Manna Coloring and Activity Sheet - Children color the picture and glue cornflakes in the basket to "help the children gather manna". A pattern for this craft is available on The Resource Room.

2. Make a Paper Bag Quail Puppet - a pattern for this craft is available on The Resource Room.

3. Look at pictures of quail and talk about them. Get books from the library about quail and show them to the class. Explain to them that quail are a lot like chickens except that they are much smaller.

4. Practice printing and writing - This lesson was designed to go along with ABC worksheets using the Bible verse. Children practice writing the letter Q in print or cursive or write the complete verse in cursive.

5. Make Balloon Quail - Have your children help you draw eyes, beak, and wings on balloons with permanent markers to make quail to be used during activities.

6. Make a Thankful Quail - Use this little quail to hold the Bible verse or have the children write things they are thankful for on pieces of paper and place them into the quail's belly. Tell them that they should take the pieces of paper out of the quail's belly and read them often to remind them about everything God has done for them.

What you will need: Two paper plates per bird, black and brown construction paper, hot melt glue gun or stapler, brown, tan, blue, and white paint, and googly eyes.

What to do:

1. Before class prepare the birds. Cut one paper plate in half and glue one of the halves to another paper plate to make a pocket. Use the other half to make the bird's face. Just make it into a cone shape by bringing the cut edges together. Staple or glue them together. Glue the face onto the paper plate pocket as shown in the picture. Cut out leg and crest shapes from black construction paper. Use the wing pattern (Available to members) to cut wings from brown construction paper.

2. In class have the children paint the quail. When they are dry, glue on the crest, wings, and feet.

7. Play "Catch the Quail" game - Before class prepare some balloons to look like quail. (Make sure you have at least one per child.) Draw faces on the balloon with a black permanent marker and tape on wings cut from construction paper.

Remind the children about the part of the story where God sent a wind that blew thousands of quail from the sea into where the Israelites were camped. Tell them that they are going to pretend that they are the Israelites (but not the ones that were whining) and that God is going to send a wind to blow in some quail. Tell them to get ready to catch them. Throw the balloons up into the air one at a time. If a child catches one, have him go sit back in his seat with the balloon. Keep throwing up balloons until all the children have had a chance to catch one.

8. Play "Keep the Birds in the Air" - Instead of taping wings to the balloon, just draw the wings on to the sides. Have the children form two lines facing each other. Give every two students a balloon and have them hit it back and forth. See which team can keep the balloon up the longest. Or you can have the whole class play at once with everyone trying to keep the balloon up. If you have a large class you can play with more than one balloon at a time depending on how big you class is.

9. Catch Flying Birds - If you have butterfly nets, you can have the children try to catch the balloon with the nets.

10. Play a Relay Game with the Balloon Birds - Before class make some bird catchers. Staple plastic or Styrofoam bowls on to the end of a paint stick or rolled up pieces of newspapers. Have the children line up into teams. Give each team a bird catcher and a bird. Have them place the bird in the bowl. On the word go the children should carry the bird in the catcher to the other end of the room around a chair and back to the start line, and then give the catcher with the bird in it to the next team member. The next team member does the same thing until all the team members have had a turn. The team that finishes first wins. If the bird falls while a child is walking, he should stop and pick it up. He cannot travel until the bird is in the catcher.

11. Play a Bible Verse Review Game - Before class print out the quail patterns and make a copy. Write one word of the Bible verse on each quail plus the Bible reference, color them and cut them out. In class hide the quail around the room. Have the children look for them and bring them to you as they find them. See if they can figure out the correct order of the words. (These patterns can also be used as a craft. The children can use the quail at home to review their Bible verse. Or you can put them in the "thankful quail" so that it looks like she is holding them.

12. Picking Up Manna - You will need a large bowl, a large spoon, cotton balls, and a blindfold. Tell your children that they are going to pretend to be Israelites, but they are blind. Place the large bowl out in front of one of the students, and place the cotton balls "manna" around the bowl. Hand the spoon to the child and put a blindfold over his eyes. On the word "go" he should try to pick up as many cotton balls with the spoon as he can and place them in the bowl. He may not feel for the cotton balls with his hands. Give each child a turn and see who can pick up the most cotton balls in a certain amount of time.

13. Play a Board Game to Review the Lesson and Study the Bible Verse - Before class prepare the board game using 20" x 30" foam core board. Each color represents a different day of the week.

Before you start point out the pictures in the center of the board. See if your children can figure out what each picture represents. Tell them that each pictures represents something that God did for the Israelites. Remind your children that instead of complaining about the manna, the Israelites should have been thanking God for everything he had done, and was doing for them.

Also point out the seven different colors of spaces and tell them that each color represents a different day of the week. Explain that the Israelites had to go out each morning and pick up manna to make the food they would eat that day. Show them the last set of spaces and tell them that each space in this set has the word "rest" on it because that was the Sabbath and the Israelites could not pick up manna that day. They had to pick up twice as much the day before.

Show them the manna you cut out and point out that each piece has a word from the memory verse. Go over the memory verse pointing out each word. Place all the manna words in the middle of the board.

Children will start at the first day of the week and take turns throwing a die and moving the correct amount of spaces. If they land on a word, they should find the word on one of the manna pieces in the middle of the board. If they land on a space that says, "Eat 1 or 2", they must put one or two pieces of manna back in the middle of the board. If they don't have any pieces, they don't have to do anything.

You can play two ways: One, the child who spells out the whole Bible verse first with their manna wins. Two, the child who collects the most manna after going around the board once or twice wins.

14. Play a Match Game to Review the Story - Print out the match game cards (make to copies) onto card stock and cut them apart. Show your children the cards and ask if they can guess which part of the story each picture represents and then play a match game with the cards.

 

Moses and the Ten Commandments Bible Lesson Craft and Activity Ideas

The following crafts and activity ideas come from The Resource Room from the lesson The Ten Commandment Bible Lesson.

Crafts and Activities

1. Make a Ten Commandments Bulletin Board Display - Before class print out the Ten Commandment Titles and staple them to your bulletin board. As your children enter hand them a sheet of paper and ask them to draw a picture illustrating one of the Ten Commandments. When a child has finished staple his or her picture to the bulletin board. (Patterns for the Ten Commandments are available on The Resource Room.)

2. Pretend to be Moses - Before class cut a mountain shape from bulletin board paper and tape it to your wall. You can also add clouds and lightening. Cut Ten Commandment tablet shapes from foam core board, 17 1/2" x 12". Print out the Ten Commandments and glue them to the tablet shapes. (I used paper that matched the color of my foam core board. Printable Ten Commandments are available on The Resource Room.) In class have your children dress up in Bible clothes to look like Moses. (Note: Do not let your children share headdresses because they could spread lice. Have one for each child; and wash them after each class.) Talk about how Moses brought the Ten Commandments down from the mountain. Have each child take a turn posing for a picture. Have the picture ready next week and use them to make a scrapbook page to remind your children of the lesson.

3. Color a Picture of Moses - Children color the picture of Moses, cut out the Ten Commandment tablets, and glue them to Moses' hands. (Available to members only on The Resource Room.)

4. Work on a Puzzle - Before class print out the puzzle pattern on different colors of card stock. Cut the out and then cut them into about ten different puzzles pieces. You can cut four puzzles at a time. In class see how fast your children can put the puzzles together to figure out the Commandment. Tape them together as they find a matching piece. (Puzzle Pattern) Printing Problems?

5. Break the Code Ten Commandment Puzzle - Before class print out the Commandment Puzzle and make copies. Have your children match the symbols to the letters to figure out which Commandment is written on the tablet. (Puzzle Pattern) Printing Problems?

6. Make a Ten Commandments Booklet - This booklet comes into different styles - Roman numeral and regular numbers. You can use the Roman numerals with older children who already know their numbers. (I used the Roman numerals with my first graders and they really enjoyed figuring out which numbers represented our numbers.) Cut the Commandments apart and mix them up. Give a set to each child. Have the children put them in order and then glue them in their books. If your children don't know the Roman numerals, make a chart on the board so that they can match them up with the regular numbers. (A pattern for this activity is available to members only on The Resource Room.)

7. Ten Commandment Review - Read the following sentences and tell the children to raise their hands with their ten fingers up and spread apart if it is one of the Ten Commandments. If it is not one of the Ten Commandments, tell them to raise their hands while making a fist.

1. Do not steal. (yes)
2. Do not cheat. (no)
3. Do not hit. (No)
4. Do not make idols. (Yes)
5. Wash your hands before you eat. (No)
6. Do not say God's name in a bad way. (Yes)
7. Honor your parents. (Yes)
8. Trust in God always. (No)
9. Say your prayers. (No)
10. Be kind to the poor. (No)
11. Do not murder. (Yes)
12. Do not waste food. (No)
13. Keep the Sabbath Day holy. (Yes)

8. Find the Missing Ten Commandment Game - Here's a game to go along with a lesson on the Ten Commandments. Prepare sets of Ten Commandment cards using Roman numeral cards for older children and the regular numbers for younger children. Remove one card from the deck and give one deck to each child or group of children. See which group of children can figure out which of the Ten Commandments is missing from their deck and what the commandment is first.

Copyright Notice - While many of the crafts and activities on this site are free, they are still copyrighted. They are for personal use only. They may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, except for local church, school, home use, etc. It is illegal to copy any part of this activity and place it on another web site, bulletin board, or personal web site. To request permission to copy this material for any other use than personal use contact me by e-mail.

Create a Classroom Memory Book for Your Children

Scrapbook pages of your Sunday school lessons and activities are a great way to help your children review and remember what they have learned. It is also a great way to get shy children to open up. Children will love seeing pictures of themselves.

You can also display the pages in your room to let parents know what your children have been doing and learning in class. This will also encourage your children to share what they have been learning with their parents.

Older children will also enjoy making memory pages of their lessons. This will also help them to remember what they have learned.

For directions on how to make this page go to the Sunday School Scrapbook Page.

 

 

Moses - The Israelites Go Into Canaan Bible Lesson

1. Grasshoppers and Giants! - Moses sends Joshua and Kaleb and the other spies to check out Canaan - Sometimes we feel like grasshoppers in a world of giants like the spies sent to check out Canaan in this story. When we feel this way we should remember everything that God has done for us. He will give us the strength to deal with our fears and problems. This lesson is available for preschool and older children. This is part of the ABC series of lessons that includes writing, cursive and print, and other activities. Crafts include a 3D paper grasshopper or a grasshopper made from an egg carton, or a color and activity sheet. Activities include making grasshopper cookies or a batch of grasshopper guts. Children will also enjoy playing Grasshopper Bopper with balls. Just draw a grasshopper face on the balls and have the children bounce the ball and say a word from the Bible verse each time it bounces. This lesson is available on The Resource Room a subscription site.

Copyright Notice - While many of the crafts on this site are free, they are still copyrighted. They are for personal use only. They may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, except for local church, school, home use, etc. It is illegal to copy any part of this craft and place it on another web site, bulletin board, or personal web site. To request permission to copy this material for any other use than personal use contact me by e-mail.