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Look and Live!

The Bronze Serpent

Day 58of 180
Week 12of 36
25Minutes
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Understand how God provided healing through Moses' bronze snake

2

Create a craft representing the bronze snake story

3

Develop compassion for people who are suffering

📖 Scripture Connection

Numbers 21:8-9

“Yahweh said to Moses, 'Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole. It shall happen that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.'”

— Numbers 21:8-9 (WEB)

Demonstrates God's mercy and provision during the Israelites' wilderness journey

📦 Materials Needed

  • Brown pipe cleaners
  • Popsicle sticks
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • BibleMouse Resource Guide
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (3 min)

Review yesterday's lesson about the Israelites admitting their sin

💭 Review Question: What did the people ask Moses to do about the snakes?
2Teaching (8 min)

In today's BibleMouse lesson, we'll learn how God provided a unique way of healing

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • The people were being punished for complaining
  • Poisonous snakes were biting them
  • God gave Moses a special instruction to help them
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • How do you think the people felt when they were bitten?
  • What does it mean to look and live?
3Activity: Bronze Snake on a Pole Craft (10 min)
craft

Create a simple bronze snake craft using pipe cleaners and popsicle stick

📝 Instructions:
  1. Twist brown pipe cleaners to form a snake shape
  2. Attach the snake to a popsicle stick pole
  3. Optional: Add a small bandage to represent healing
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Parents help with twisting pipe cleaners

Challenge: Add more detailed snake details or background scene

4Closing (3 min)

Discuss how this story shows God's love and mercy

📝 Review Questions:
  • What did people need to do to be healed?
  • How does this story show God cares for us?
🙏 Prayer:

Thank God for His mercy and healing

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll learn about the faith needed to look up to the snake

💎 Memory Verse

Numbers 21:9

“So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, he lived.”

— Numbers 21:9 (WEB)

🎯 Activity: Snake Pole Charades: Children act out looking at the snake and being healed while reciting the verse

👨‍👩‍👧 For Parents

Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

This lesson illustrates God's provision and mercy, even when people sin

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Use the BibleMouse Resource Guide for additional context
  • Encourage children to ask questions
  • Connect the story to God's ultimate plan of salvation
🤔 Common Struggles:

Children might find it hard to understand why looking at a snake would heal people

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Child's understanding of obedience and God's unique ways of helping

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Use BibleMouse Printables Library for snake-themed coloring pages
  • Sing a memory verse song from BibleMouse Song Collection
  • Read a related story from BibleMouse Read-Aloud Library

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