30 Jan

10 Plagues of Egypt

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We are continuing our Bible lesson of Moses. Each day we will learning about a new plaque of Egypt.
Exodus 7, 8 Aside from reading JJ’s Children’s Bible each day about each plague, I tried to incorporate activities along with it.

1/18/10
1st plague of Egypt – blood in the Nile River
So I took a tall glass of water & had my son put a few drops of red food coloring in the water, we watched as the water turned red – this was kinda neat. JJ liked this!

1/19/10
Frogs
Silly me told my son we would go to our lake & catch tadpoles (frogs) today for the frog plague but after mentioning it to my husband he told me their wouldn’t be any  tadpoles at this time of the year, I was hoping he was wrong, he wasn’t! With 3 kids in tow, a net & bucket – no tadpoles + 1 VERY upset 4 year old who blamed me that the frogs did lay eggs this time of the year! Anyways, I tried to come up with something fast . I took all the plastic toy frogs & a “pretend” lily pad & had the boys try to toss the frogs on the lily pad.

1/20/10
Gnats
Along with reading about this plague we looked at 3 different children’s Bibles with the pictures of this plague and we discussed how painful it would be with these biting bugs, that there were so many – I asked JJ if he could imagine them in his eyes, nose, mouths,ears? I used the example of mosquito bites, could you imagine being bit all over?
1/21/10
Flies
I told JJ to pretend that the flies were swarming around him. We used our Elefun game. We didn’t use the nets w/ the game & I told him that we were pretending these were flies not butterflies.

1/22/10
Death of livestock

1/25/10
Boils

1/26/10
Hail
I took mini marshmellows & threw them up in the air (pretending that it was hail), my boys LOVED this!


As you can tell my preschooler LOVED this!

1/27/10
locusts
I had JJ hop all over the livingroom like locusts do (sorry no pic)

1/28/10
darkness for 3 days

1/29/10
death of the 1st born

For each plague I printed off The 10 plagues of Egypt matchbooks from Homeschool share. You cut the plagues out & put them together like little matchbooks, however I decided to have JJ match the number and each plague to each day. (we did this daily). Then for additional worksheets we used our Old Testament workbook Through the Bible by Harlin J. Roper.
Finally I read to him the very last portion for the Bible story, how the Pharaoh (I told him king) finally let the people go. I think this was a good Bible lesson in that teaching him obedience. How god wants us to be obedient and that there are consequences for bad behavior. (Exodus 12)


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Comments

  1. Michelle says:
    January 30, 2010 at 8:08 pm

    This is great! With Passover coming up soon, you could tie this in with Yeshua (Jesus) being the Passover Lamb. *Ü*

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  2. Apryl @ Christian Clippers says:
    January 30, 2010 at 9:59 pm

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  3. Emmy says:
    January 30, 2010 at 10:28 pm

    My husband and I are studying the Old Testament this year, and we just got done reading about this last night. I just keep thinking, geeze Pharaoh how slow and stupid can you be!

    Looks like a very fun activity.

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  4. kewkew says:
    January 30, 2010 at 11:55 pm

    Wow, you really had some great ideas on making the plagues stick in the kids minds.

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  5. No Ordinary Me says:
    January 31, 2010 at 5:22 am

    Fun! What some great ideas. Nice blog.

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