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Today's Story:
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Joseph's brothers come to Egypt to buy food.
evil you did." Wait for the Lord. He will make things right.
Proverbs 20:22
(International Children's Bible, New Century Version)
Today's Theme:
God takes care of us in good times and in hard times.
Materials Needed:
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Promised Land mat, Paper Egypt mat from last week's lesson, masking tape, Joseph figure, Pharaoh figure, 4 or 5 Fisher Price type men (or home made play dough men), A penny, A scrap of cloth, (about a 4" square), and a piece of string,
(to make a sack of grain)2 or 3 small empty prescription bottles, (for silos), Samples of grains: oats, rice, etc. Rolling pin, Blocks or Lego's, Seeds and Grains Display and Flour Making Demonstration -
Put out a display of seeds -
dried beans,
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popcorn rice, oatmeal Demonstrate making flour by crushing some oatmeal with a rolling pin. Let the children take turns making oat flour. Optional Snack: Popcorn with home made butter.
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Tell the children that for today's snack they will have a kind of seed that we do not grind into flour. See if they can guess what it is.
Make popcorn in a popcorn popper. Let the children take turns shaking the cream in the jar until it turns to butter. Pour off the buttermilk. Top the popcorn with salt and the home made butter. Action Game: Into the Silo -
Explain that a silo is a place where a farmer stores grain.
Have the children make a silo from a small circle of chairs. (Leave space for an entrance). Tell the children to pretend they are seeds of grain. They must scatter around the room and find a place to stand and wait until you call out, "Into the silo!" You are going to pretend to be Joseph gathering grain for Egypt. You will turn your back and close your eyes. When you call out, "Into the silo!", the children must run into the silo of chairs before you turn around and open your eyes (5 or 10 seconds later). Any child who doesn't make it into the silo will be the next Joseph. Telling the Story Lay out the Promised Land and Egypt mats as illustrated.
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Remind children that Joseph worked for Pharaoh storing food. -
Add Joseph figure to Egypt.
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Add prescription bottle silos (put a little rice or grain in each). Let the kids make a palace from blocks or Lego's and put in Egypt. -
Add Pharaoh figure to palace. -
There was no food in the Promised Land and Joseph's father and brothers and their families were getting hungry. -
Put Fisher Price type men into Promised Land to represent Joseph's brothers and father. Joseph's father heard that there was food in Egypt. So he sent Joseph's brothers to Egypt to buy food. But he wouldn't let Joseph's youngest brother, Benjamin, go with them. -
Let kids move all but 2 figures from the Promised Land to Egypt When Joseph's brothers got to Egypt they had to buy food from Joseph. They bowed before him just like in his dreams. -
Put figures in front of Joseph and have them bow to him. Joseph knew his brothers right away. But they didn't know the man selling them grain was their brother, Joseph. Joseph said to them, "You are spies! You have come spy in our land." His brothers insisted that they just came to buy food. Joseph made his brothers tell them all about his father and little brother back home. Then he insisted that they come back again and bring their little brother with them. To make sure that they would come back, he tied one of them up and put him in jail. -
Use some blocks to make a jail and put one of Joseph's brothers in it. Joseph said he would not let their brother out of jail until they returned with their youngest brother. Then Joseph gave the rest of his brothers food to take home. But before he gave it to them, he put all their money back in their sacks. -
Put some rice in the scrap of cloth, put a penny on top and tie it up with a piece of string.
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