Special Baby Moses

Beforehand Read Exodus 1-2:10

Memory Verse:

• For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, to do the good things He planned for us long ago. (Ephesians 2:10)

Crafts:

Option 1- Baby Moses Handprints/Memory Verse

• Baby Moses PDF Scroll down till you See "Baby Moses Craft." Under the title, it should have a link for a PDF. Print enough of the pdf for each member of the class. 
• Cut out the PDF picture. Have the kids color Baby Moses. Glue Baby Moses onto a blue sheet of construction paper. 
• You'll need construction paper in brown and green for the reeds. Have the kids trace their hands and cut them out of the construction paper. Glue only the wrist part of the hand down 
• Write the Memory verse on the Reeds over Baby Moses.

Option Two- Moses and Miriam 

Go to this Site and print the Templates. Follow the instructions. 

Snack: Moses in the Basket

     What you'll need: ice cream bowl, pudding, teddy grahams. 

• Put pudding in the ice cream bowls and put a teddy graham cracker on top of the pudding. The ice cream bowl represents the reeds, the pudding represents bedding,and the teddy represents Moses. 
• HERE is a link for Homemade Pudding if you want to use it.

Story: Exodus 1-2:10

Retell the story from Memory. Be sure to answer these questions:

• Was the Pharaoh in Exodus 1 the same as the Pharaoh that Joseph was serving under?
• Why was the new King afraid of the Israelites?
• What did Pharaoh do to weaken the Israelites?
• Pharaoh wanted all the newborn baby boys to be thrown into the Nile River. Moses was a newborn baby boy, what did Moses' mom do instead?
• When Moses' Mom could no longer hide him, what did she do instead?
• Who was watching from the river bank to see what would happen to Moses?
• Who found Moses?
• Who ended up taking care of Moses until Pharaoh's Daughter adopted him?

It's amazing how God was in the little details. He had a Great Big Plan for Moses' life, and it started before Moses was born. God has a Great Big Plan for our life too, it started before we were born. He chose our parents to be our parents, He chose the time we would live in, Where we would live, He took care of all the little details that would prepare us for the great things in our future. God is a Great God! He is in Control even when things are scary and uncertain!

Memory Verse Games

• Act it out.
• Brainstorm motions with the students to match their memory verse. When children learn movements they are less likely to “lose it” from their memory.
• Post It Cover Up
• For this activity write the memory verse on the front board of the classroom. Practice reading it once together and then use post-it notes to cover up one of the words. Then, practice reading the verse again followed by covering up a second word with post-it notes. Continue this pattern until the entire verse is covered and the children are saying the verse from memory. This is an interesting spin on traditional drilling of a verse by repetition. You could also reverse the game beginning with some words covered and have children guess the missing words.
• Find, Assemble, and Read
• Put each word from the verse onto separate sheets of paper. Hide them around and have the kids find the words. Once the kids have found the words, congregate at a meeting spot and assemble the sentence and read them.
• Pudding Words
• Smear pudding on cookie sheets. Using their fingers, have the kids write the memory verse in the pudding.
• Pudding Pictures
• Smear pudding on cookie sheets. Using their fingers, have the kids draw what they learned from the lesson in the pudding.