As a Sunday school teacher you learn quickly that children find the miraculous easy to believe in. This Bible study for children uses the stories of Moses leading Israel out of bondage. It is full of these stories and can bring the miraculous close to the children’s lives.

The Bible lesson they should start learning as early as possible, as exemplified through the journey, is that God uses normal people to do extraordinary things. Moses thought of himself as “just another man” who had actually done some bad things. But God looked at his willingness and his heart, and not at his appearance or his flaws. Therefore, we should feel confident that God cares about normal people like us. He watches over us and gives us messages, too.

Ask your students if any of them ever think it would be very cool to do something BIG for God someday? We don’t have any slaves in Egypt to lead away these days. But how about if God told you that you could feed a whole starving country or develop a cure for a terrible disease when you grew up? How would you feel about that?

Activity:
Give each child  three sheets of construction paper: orange and red and green. Have them place the red sheet directly under the orange sheet. Either draw for them or have them draw a giant flame. The flame should be big enough to take up most of the sheet. They should cut both sheets at the same time in the shape of the flame.
The green sheet should be a bush or treetop shape, which they can cut out.

You can use an orange juice lid to create the circles. The treetop should be big enough to take up most of the sheet. Put one flame sheet on either side of the treetop sheet. Using glue sticks, glue them together at the bottom.

Take two popsicle sticks and run glue down one side of each. Then place the sticky sides on either side of the flame/bush so that approximately two inches of the stick is pasted to the construction paper sheets, and the rest is pasted to the other stick.

Allow the students to fan themselves with the burning bush to let them know that God’s fires didn’t burn the bush, and it won’t burn them. They should put the burning bush in their rooms at home to remind them that God likes to speak to them in prayer, too.

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