The Red Sea continued (day 16)

We reviewed the story of the God parting the Red Sea in the bathtub. What a fun way to make bathtime even better. The kids seem to listen with "new ears" because it is a different setting. To act out the story we used a bubble bath to be the sea. The kids "parted" the bubbles and let the Isrealites across. then, the bubbles came back together to cover the "mean guys." FYI, I actually tried it first with shaving cream, which worked well for my four year old. However, since I was actually trying to bathe Knox (the 14 month old) at the same time I got worried he would put it in his eyes. Tear free shampoo makes great bubble bathes.

the point? GOD CAN DO ANYTHING!

God makes a way (day 15)

We read the story of Moses and the Red Sea, beginning on page 92 of the storybook Bible. This story is found in Exodus 14-15. After reading it the kids got to choose what they wanted to do. I thought it would be fun to act out the story using play-dough for the sea and toothpicks for the people. However the option of using stamps was too appealing for them. They covered a paper with any stamp they wanted. The goal was for them to be blue to look like the water when they were overlapped. They did not stick to blue so we got pretty rainbow water. After they gathered some sand/dirt outside, they glued it down the middle of the paper to be the ground the Israelites walked on down the middle of the parted sea.

the point? God saves his people, sometimes in unusual ways