Elementary Curriculum

February 28, 2021 | Unit 4, Session 6

Quick Links: Printable Lesson Plan | Younger Kids Activity Page | Older Kids Activity Page

Hey, parents!

We wanted to offer a few directions as you navigate leading your grade-schooler through today’s lesson and activities. Below you will find our Bible passage for the day, a lesson plan for the day, and several other tips that can help you and your child as you study and worship this morning.

Here are the materials you will need for our lesson today:

  • Coloring Supplies

  • Coins

  • Bowl

  • Stopwatch

  • Brown and Blue Construction Paper

  • Scissors

  • Glue

    God’s Plan for Me

1. Read the Bible Passage | Exodus 13-15

2. Ask the Big Picture Question:

Is there anything God cannot do?

3. Watch the Bible Story

4. Review the Key Verse

Hosea 13:4, “I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.”

5. Answer the Big Picture Question

God can do all things according to His character.

6. Interact with the “Questions from kids” Video

7. Pray together

8. Do one or both of the Activities

Activity #1: Plunder the Egyptians

Directions 

Scatter coins around your room. Place a bowl in one corner of the room. When you say go, your kids will gather the coins as quickly as they can and place them in the bucket. Challenge your kids to gather them as fast as possible. 

Say 

After the Passover, the Israelites plundered Egypt. Plunder is a word that means “to take most of the valuable things with you as you leave.” Soon after the Israelites left Egypt with many valuable things, Pharaoh decided that he did not want them to leave after all. He sent his army out to capture them and take them back to Egypt! We’ll see soon how God rescued His people again. 

Activity #2: Red Sea Craft

Directions 

Give each of your children a sheet each of brown and blue construction paper. Help your kids cut the sheet of blue paper in half using safety scissors. Next, your kids will fold each piece of the blue paper in half. Kids should lay the blue pieces on the brown construction paper so the edges of the blue paper meet in the middle of the brown paper. Then, kids will glue the outside edges of the blue paper to the brown paper so that the blue paper can fold up to simulate the waters parting and returning. On the brown sheet of paper, under the flaps of blue paper, your kids can draw a crowd of people crossing the sea on dry land and write the story point: God parted the Red Sea for His people to cross.

Say 

God parted the Red Sea for His people to cross. His power and love are infinite and He is faithful
to save His people. His actions to save the Israelites from Pharaoh point to an even greater rescue. He sent Jesus to make the way for us to be with God. Jesus died on the cross for our sin and rose again on the third day. When we believe in Jesus, God forgives our sin and gives us everlasting life with Him. 

EXTRA TIPS

  • If your grade-schooler is in First or Second Grade, start the morning working on the coloring sheet and activity page.

  • As time permits, do one activity before the Bible Story Video and one activity afterward, to help reinforce the message.

  • If your grade-schooler is in Third, Fourth, or Fifth Grade, download and print the Older Kid Journal Page for them to work on at the end of the lesson