DC Bible Class

I want to give you a quick glimpse into our Kids Bible Class at Discover Church. We've started working our way through heroes of the Bible and this last week I taught on Moses. We're up to the part of asking Pharoah to let them go and then the ten plagues.

Right now we have 8 kids regularly and 2 returning soon (Rylee and Gavin!) and there is a wide age range between them all (6 years between the oldest and youngest). It all makes for a very interesting bible class situation. Some of our kids have grown up in Bible class and could finish all of the stories for you. Some of our kids are brand new to church and the Bible and you can just see in their eyes the freshness of hearing these stories for the first time.

I found a great song on the ten plagues here, so we started by singing that and going over our memory verse for this term:

"We wait in hope for the LORD; he helps us.

He is like a shield that keeps us safe." Psalm 33:20

The first plague is water into blood. So I poured clean water into a pitcher that had a couple red food coloring drops at the bottom.

Second, we had a tubeful of frogs that we played with and "discussed" what it would be like to have frogs everywhere. I was trying my best to make them understand how gross it really must have been because in a class of mostly boys and one very brave little girl, they thought the frogs sounded pretty cool:

The third and fourth is gnats and flies. Since these are similar we grouped them together and made our very own fly swatters. We scattered around the room, swatting our very own "flies" and singing "shoo fly".

We even had a contest to see who could swat their fly the furthest. The kids really loved this one.

The fifth, animals dying, was kind of fun because we had several little livestock toys that we played with and talked about what the Israelites used their animals for. Then, we watched them all die:

This is me talking about how stinky it would get when the animals were all dying.

After our snack, we made a mini book of the first five plagues. We'll add the last five next week and then send home the completed book.

Hudson coloring the nile river red.

Kason's frog page

I'm hoping soon to put up a video of the kids reciting their memory verse. We've picked verses so far that we've put actions to to help the kids remember. They have done a fantastic job working on their verses and one of our friends has told me that her daughter will recite her verse all day at home and also at her school!