Turning a staff into a snake

Students pair off, and decide which one in the pair will be God and which will be Moses. Each Moses gets a toilet paper tube to serve as a staff and each God gets a piece of orange construction paper to serve as a flame. Read Exodus 3:1-12 and 4:1-17 and have students act out the story as you go. After acting out the story and giving an opportunity for students to react to it, give toilet paper tubes to the children who were playing God and move on to the activity of turning the staffs into snakes. For those students who finish early, suggest that they figure out a way to make a burning bush using construction paper and/or felt. (When we did this, the first student to work on a bush asked me for a cup, and then all the other bush makers wanted one, too, so our bushes involved cups.)

 

Materials

• one toilet paper tube per child, plus a couple of extras
• various colors of felt
• scissors
• glue
• (optional, but appreciated) a pair of googly eyes for each child
• construction paper (including several sheets of orange)
• (optional) paper or plastic cups to serve as a form for a bush