lessons on Moses

Dennis and his Sunday School class had a fun lesson about Moses parting the sea this morning. I had them all act out the story, using two giant sheets of blue paper as the sea. The Egyptians ("bad guys") chased the Israelites ("good guys") to the edge of the paper. The Israelites stopped and prayed (their idea), and "Moses" held out a hand. I parted the two lengths of paper, making a path for the Israelites to cross. When the Egyptians got to the center, I covered them over with one of the sheets of paper. They screamed and wiggled under it. And then they all asked to do it again, and the second time, they wanted to switch roles (good guys became bad guys and vice versa). We had so much fun! They also loved the craft, gluing a path onto blue construction paper and gluing goldfish crackers on either side of the path. They glued some and ate a bunch! Dennis was so proud of his masterpiece that he showed it to the pastors after church and told them the story behind it. I especially loved when he said "and all the fish had to stop swimming because the water just stopped--I bet they thought that was crazy!".