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The Water Splits Apart!

Walking Through the Sea

Day 118of 180
Week 24of 36
15Minutes
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Understand that God can do amazing things

2

Recognize how God helped Moses and His people

3

Learn to trust God's power

📖 Scripture Connection

Exodus 14:21-22

“Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.”

— Exodus 14:21-22 (WEB)

Demonstrates God's miraculous power to protect His people

📦 Materials Needed

  • Blue fabric or blue blanket
  • Fan
  • Small toy people or figurines
  • BibleMouse Resource Guide
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (3 min)

In today's BibleMouse lesson, we're going to learn about something amazing God did!

💭 Review Question: Do you remember how God's people were stuck yesterday?
2Teaching (5 min)

God made something incredible happen! He told Moses to raise his staff, and then the water split apart!

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • God can do big, surprising things
  • God always helps His people
  • God made a path through the sea
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • Can you show me how big the water split?
  • Do you think the people were scared?
3Activity: Sea Splitting Demonstration (6 min)
sensory

Create a fun demonstration of the sea splitting

📝 Instructions:
  1. Spread blue fabric on the floor
  2. Use a fan to 'blow' the fabric apart
  3. Walk toy people through the 'dry ground'
  4. Talk about how God made a special path
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Just spread the blue fabric and talk about the story

Challenge: Let child use the fan to 'split' the sea

4Closing (3 min)

Review the amazing way God helped His people

📝 Review Questions:
  • What happened to the water?
  • Who helped God's people?
🙏 Prayer:

Dear God, thank You for helping Your people. You are amazing!

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll see how God's people walked through the sea!

💎 Memory Verse

Psalm 46:1

“God is our helper!”

— Psalm 46:1 (WEB)

🎯 Activity: Sing-along with hand motions: Point up for 'God', make a helping hand motion for 'helper'

👨‍👩‍👧 For Parents

Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

This lesson focuses on God's miraculous power and protection

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Use dramatic voice when telling the story
  • Encourage child to use imagination
  • Be patient with short attention span
🤔 Common Struggles:

Young children might have trouble understanding the concept of a miracle

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Child's excitement about God's power

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Use BibleMouse Printables Library coloring page about the sea splitting
  • Sing a song from BibleMouse Song Collection about God's power

Ready for Tomorrow?

Great job completing today's lesson!

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