Moses Puppets!

On Friday parents may have discovered a brown paper bag resembling a face come home in the red home folder. Yes, we made puppets!

Students enjoyed adding their own creative touches to their puppets and gluing the pieces onto the paper bag. After putting the finishing touches on the puppets we used them to retell the story of Moses. We did this so that the students might have a better understanding of what Moses may have been thinking when God first spoke to him by the burning bush. Students enjoyed moving the mouths of their puppets along to what Moses might have said to God when God told Moses to go back to Egypt to free His people.

Yes, the students had fun with the Moses puppets and they learned the story of Moses. But to make it even better, the students thought of how this story applies to their own lives. The students easily recognized that Moses was not excited about God calling him back to Egypt. But rather than ignoring what God told him, he listened to what God had to say and followed Him. The students can see that in their own lives as well. Maybe they don’t want to always do what God tells them to do or maybe it can be a little scary to do what God says. But through this story of Moses, we could see that God was always with Moses when he listened to God and went back to Egypt, just like God is always with us when we are scared to do what He says.

So, this week encourage your second graders to retell the story of Moses to you using their Moses puppet. Discuss what things God tells us to do that may be hard for us. Lastly, remind them of Genesis 28:15, “Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go.”