Quarter 3 - Week 13 - God gives the 10 commandments

Title:       God gives the 10 commandments
Passage:  Exodus 20:1—21

PRODUCE SOUND EFFECTS:  table or chair; sheet of brown paper; masking tape; poster board, metal sheets or pie pan with beans; kazoos or paper trumpets.  Asks kids to help you make a "mountain" near where you have group time.  Cover a table or chair with a sheet or brown paper to represent Mount Sinai.  Make a making tape "fence" on the floor around the mountain.  To make a thunder sound, give two or three kids large pieces of poster board, thin sheets of metal, or a tin foil pie pan with beans or pebbles in it to shake.  (alternate idea:  kids can pat their legs and clap vigorously to make thunder)  Give other kids kazoos, or roll paper into "trumpets."  Assign a teacher o shake the table or chair while you flip the lights on and off on to be lightning.  Kids make the thunder and trumpet sounds.
Tell kids they can gather at the mountain but not cross the fence.  Explain that God is powerful and ifferent from us;  He deserves the greatest respect.  He was about to come to the mountain in a cloud and speak to His people.  The mountain would be holy because God would be there.
God told Moses to tell the people how to get ready.  They had to wash their clothes, just as people would do before they went to see a king in his palace.  Anyone or any animal that touched the mountain would be killed.  All the people would soon know that God has spoken.  Practice making the sound effects.

Some links:

• Guidance from God (http://www.sermons4kids.com/ten-commandments.html)
• Rules are cool or rules are cruel? (http://www.sermons4kids.com/rules_are_cool.htm)

Quarter 3 - Week 12 - God prepares Israel for the Covenant

Title:       God prepares Israel for the Covenant
Passage:  Exodus 19

Quarter 3 - Week 11 - God preserves Israel

Title:       God preserves Israel
Passage:  Exodus 15:22—17:7

Make play dough bread:  What we need:  play dough, play dough tools and cookie cutters.  Set out play dough tools and cookie cutters.  Suggest that kids make things people needed as they traveled in the wilderness such as play dough bread, sandals and bowls.  Tak about other things they might have have needed in the wilderness.

Some links:

• Dinner on the ground (http://www.sermons4kids.com/dinner-on-the-ground.html)
• What is it? (http://www.sermons4kids.com/what_is_it.htm)
• Water from a rock (http://www.sermons4kids.com/water_from_a_rock.htm)

Quarter 3 - Week 10 - God parts the Red Sea

Title:       God parts the Red Sea
Passage:  Exodus 14—15

http://www.sermons4kids.com/parting_the_red_sea.htm
Especially note the water and pepper experiment.

Quarter 3 - Week 9 - God ordains the Passover

Title:       God ordains the Passover
Passage:  Exodus 12 –13

1. HIDE AND SEEK:  At the end of the yearly Passover meal, children play a hide and seek game, looking for a piece of matzo, which is part of the dessert.  When it is found, the children receive a reward of money or candy.  Play a hide and seek game (with no rewards) by hiding something such as play food for kids to find.  When it is found, hide it again.

Quarter 3 - Week 8 - God sends plagues on Egypt

Title:      God sends plagues on Egypt
Passage:  Exodus 7—10

Here is a clip from the movie Prince of Egypt showing the plagues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oX-Kcx2BAc
If you want to show this in class I would recommend using the dvd for picture quality.

Quarter 3 - Week 7 - God raises Moses to lead Israel

Title:       God raises Moses to lead Israel
Passage:  Exodus 3

Quarter 3 - Week 6 - God prepares Israel for deliverance

Title:       God prepares Israel for deliverance
Passage:  Exodus 1—2

BIG IDEA FOR THE NEXT TWO MONTHS:

REMEMBER THIS BOOK, ALONG WITH THE WHOLE BIBLE, IS ABOUT GOD. 

The main character is God.  The main instrument God's uses throughout the book is Moses.

 

About the book of Exodus:

• marks the end of a period of oppression for Abraham’s descendants (Gen.15:13). It also was the beginning of the fulfillment of GOD'S covenant promise to Abraham—the promise that his descendants not only would reside in the Promised Land, but also would multiply and become a great nation (Gen. 12:1–3, 7).
• instruction about God's sovereignty and majesty, His goodness and holiness, and His grace and mercy. They saw that He was the one and only God of heaven and earth (Ex. 3; 6; 33–34). The account of the exodus and the events that followed also are the subject of other portions of Scripture (Psalm 105:25–45; 106:6–27; Acts 7:17–44; 1 Cor. 10:1–13; Heb. 9:1–6; 11:23–29). 

GOD PREPARES HIS PEOPLE FOR WHAT HE HAS PLANNED FOR THEM:

1. God used the country and land of Egypt to grow His people (Exodus 1:6, 7)
2. God used Pharoah's daughter going down for a bathe at just the right time to find the person God was going to use to save His people. (Exodus 2:5, 6)

Quarter 3 - Week 5 - Easter Review

Quarter 3 - Week 4 - Jesus rises from the dead

Title:       Jesus rises from the dead
Passage:  Matthew 28

Quarter 3 - Week 3 - Jesus endures the cross

Title:       Jesus endures the cross
Passage:  Matthew 27

Quarter 3 - Week 2 - Judas Betrays Jesus

Title:       Judas betrays Jesus
Passage:  Matthew 26:1—19,  36—50

Quarter 3 - Week 1 - Jesus enters Jerusalem

Title:       Jesus enters Jerusalem
Passage:  Matthew 21—23; Zechariah 9:9