The Plagues

I’ve never had so much fun teaching about plagues before.  As we read through scripture we stopped and made a crafty illustration of each plague.  Check out the description below if you would like to replicate.  Here is what our final page looked like.  Afterwards Addi was easily able to walk through and tell me the story of  Moses, Pharaoh, and how God used the plagues to free the Israelites from Egyptian slavery.

1. Used crayons to color blue water and fish.  After reading about how the river was turned to blood we painted the river red.
2.  We used a green coke lid, googly eyes, and a color pencil to make a frog.
3.  I placed some poppy seeds on the paper and we sealed them in with contact paper.
4.  We used construction paper to make the fly and contact paper to make clear wings which we hot glued to the construction paper.
5. We glued a cotton ball and white pom pom to look like a sheep.
6.  I drew a hand on the paper and then I gave Addi some bubble wrapping paper with a tiny amount of red paint on it to make boils.
7.  Addi colored a cloud with rain and then we attached dried white beans to make hail.
8.  We used stickers of insects to illustrate the locusts (however, I'm noticing now that she must have peeled off all her other insect stickers because there had been a whole lot of them- ha ha).
9.  We colored a sun first and then we colored black over it to represent the darkness.
10.  I planned to have a whole separate lesson on Passover so for now we just illustrated this plague with a picture of a little boy.

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Moses

The next lesson that I had the privilege of teaching was on the story of God rescuing Moses as a baby.  We read the story and then each kiddo was assigned a character to act out.  We had so much fun.  I captured a few shots of our little "play" on my phone and later that afternoon I made this funny video.

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Joseph

This year instead of attempting to teach Addi preschool all by myself I have been collaborating with two dear friends who have kiddos about the same age.  There have been several bible study lessons that I have thoroughly enjoyed teaching.  The first one was about Joseph.  I had made a worksheet with random clip art pictures representing some of the primary events including Joseph being given a colorful coat by his father,  Joseph's dream about the sheaves of wheat (symbolizing his brothers) bowing down to him, his jealous brothers sell him into slavery for 20 pieces of silver, Joseph's journey to Egypt and living in Potiphar’s house, Potiphar’s wife lies about Joseph so he goes to jail and meets a butcher and baker, and how Joseph helps the Pharaoh by interpreting his dreams.

As we walked through the life of Joseph by reading bible passages the kids colored their color sheets.  Then, I cut up the pictures and had the children glue them in sequential order to help reinforce that they were actually learning Joseph’s story.

We also made Joseph puppets out of paper bags and strips of colorful paper but my picture did not turn out very well.

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