Here you'll find an array of activities for elementary children that can be used in Children's Ministry, after-school programs, in the classroom and by homeschoolers.
We are starting a very special series on the Tabernacle that the Israelites built near Mt Horeb (Sinai) according to the directions and pattern given to Moses by God. It is rich in parallels that teach us about God’s best and most important gift, our salvation.
I can’t say it any better than Brennan, so I’ll share His post on the significance of the outer court. Check out his blog at: Brennan’s Pen: The Courtyard https://share.google/irJaJ4lMEJNMrTvTv
After the Golden Calf experience, many repented from their sin and truly chose to worship God. God renewed His covenant and invited the people to build a special Tabernacle. This lesson from Exodus 35 shows how much the people gave. They gave generously and cheerfully. They gave so much that Moses had to tell them to stop giving!
Exodus 38:1-9 tells about the Tabernacle Courtyard design. The courtyard was where the people came to offer their gifts. They brought sacrifices to confess their sins and also thank offerings. Here they came to pray, praise the Lord and worship. It is here that we learn about God’s greatest and most important gift, the gift of salvation.
This PowerPoint presentation (and the next 2 lessons) encourages you and the children to make a model of the sanctuary. The model can be one with felts, a paper model, or a classroom size model. The directions and ideas are given in the presentation.
I did the basic work of making an altar, basin, and the curtains. The kids got to put on the bronze paper to finish the altar, add some more mirrors to the basin, and put up the curtains on the entry posts.
To make the altar I took one of Lowe’s blue boxes. I measured 10 inches from the top and cut around the sides of the box at that line. Then I flipped that top over so that it looks like the inner grate spoken of in scripture. I taped the sides all around. The box can easily be flattened for storage by turning it over, untaping the bottom, and then untaping the ‘top’ which is now the middle grate from its underside.
I made the basin by spray painting a very large metal bowl and metal vase with bronze spray paint. The picture doesn’t show the mirrors on it yet.
God promised Abraham that that his family would have the land of Canaan. He accurately predicted that they would spend time in Egypt and that he would bring them out. The book of Exodus tells how this happened. God did bring his chosen people, the Israelite’s, to the land of Canaan, the promised land. Here are some presentations we have done during Zoom Sabbath School from the life of Moses. This part covers the stories of the Israelites on their way to Mt Sinai and while there. God established a covenant with them and made them a nation with a promise of land of their own.
In this presentation, the kids will get to make a craft and act out the story of the dramatic escape through the Red Sea. The Israelite’s were in a pickle; a God-designed pickle. How would they escape the Egyptians when they were stuck between mountains and the gigantic Red Sea? When we are in a pickle, we too can be calm, pray, and know that God will make a way. He will fight for us. He will lead us. He will always be with us!
After 3 days of traveling in the desert. The Isrealites didn’t have any more water! They couldn’t find water for days. When they did find water, it was bitter! While telling the story we make hot chocolate. The bitter baker’s chocolate makes us realize what a bitter surprise that would be. The people cried out to God and He healed the water at Marah. We have bitter times too. It may be someone being mean, a friend leaving us, death, or something else. We too can cry out to God. He will heal our bitterness — despair to delight; sadness to gladness; fear to faith… God healed the water and it was sweet. We add sugar, hot water, and cream to our hot chocolate. God didn’t stop there. He gives us abundant joy! Just like God then led the Israelites to a beautiful oasis of springs and trees, God promises to bring us to a place of peace and joy. Just trust and follow.
Let’s learn about a special day, the Sabbath, that God gives us to worship him. It’s the first holiday! I like to spread out a clean sheet and cover it with something like sweet cornflakes or rice-crispies. Then I give each child a quart jar so that they can gather ‘manna’ cereal while we review the story and talk about our wonderful God. This Sabbath activity teller gives kids and families great ideas to do on Sabbath. Print the pages back to back.
In this presentation we look at the short story found in Exodus 17:1-7. After traveling in the desert, the people were really thirsty! We talk about how we thirst for God. God will satisfy us. At the end, there is a BINGO game that reviews many water Bible stories and verses about how God quenches our thirst for His goodness.
In this short story, the Bible highlights the importance of God’s role in winning the fight against our enemies. While Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning the battle. Hur and Aaron helped keep his hands raised. At the end, Moses stated that the LORD is my banner. They had banners or flags like we do that represent our country, state, club, and ideals. God is who we pledge allegiance to. He is our Sovereign LORD. In this presentation we talk about various flags, what they represent, the meaning of their colors and symbols, and their pledge (if they have one). Two of the slides are shown above. The craft is to make a banner or flag that represents God.
In this interactive presentation, the story starts out with Moses describing how God had freed and cared for the Israelites. As a review of the stories of Moses, the children are encouraged to pick a story picture and either do a charade, pictionary, or 20 questions to help others guess the story. Jethro stays in camp and witnesses Moses sitting down as judge to help the Israelites solve their problems. The children are encouraged to name types of problems they face and put a large stone in a large bucket for each problem. The full and very heavy bucket, later, is used to demonstrate how we need to carry one another’s burdens (Galatians 6:2). Have a very stout long stick on hand so they can all work together to carry the bucket of heavy stones. We finish by making paper bag puppets to practice bearing one another’s burdens by listening, praying, empathizing, encouraging one another, and being a helping hand.
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