Read the eighth chapter of Exodus to your class\nfirst. There are many lessons here, but one that is good for teaching youth is\nthat God does not tolerate breaking our promises to Him, nor does He overlook\ncompromise. The plague of frogs was just one of God\u2019s punishments upon the\nPharaoh of Egypt for not harkening to Moses, God\u2019s spokesman. Note in this\nchapter that the plague of frogs did not actually injure a person, but created\nan environment most unpleasant! Think about eating your dinner with a layer of\nlive frogs covering your plate. What would it be like to swim in a pool so\nthick with live frogs that you couldn\u2019t move your arms without frogs clinging\nall over them? Could you walk outside if frogs covered every layer of ground?\nThink about walking on top of layers of frogs!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For a craft to do with this lesson, make a frog\nfrom a thin paper plate folded in half. Paint the outside green and the inside\nred for the mouth. Add a purple or black tongue and glue or paint eyes on the\ntop fold of the plate. Lunch sized paper bags also make good frogs with mouths.\nUse these as puppets and ask the students to create a little play showing why\nthe frogs came upon Egypt. What did Pharaoh do wrong? Why didn\u2019t the plague of\nfrogs convince Pharaoh to let the Israelites go? How many more plagues did God\nhave to send before Pharaoh listened? In verses 25-29 of Exodus 8, Pharaoh\ntries to \u201cmake a deal\u201d with Moses and compromise his first promise. Does this\nwork for Pharaoh? If your church substitutes wholesome activities for\nHalloween, try a Plagues of Egypt party. Students may come dressed as any\nanimal from the plagues of Exodus. They should display a badge with their\n\u201cconsequence\u201d and the verse relating to it on the costume. Include frog races,\nserpent (snake) races (they crawl on their bellies), gnat and fly catching\ngames (bad mitten or butterfly\/firefly catchers), and tug of war between Egypt\nand Israel or between Pharaoh and Moses. Decorate pumpkins to look like frogs or\ncut frog faces into the pumpkins. Instead of scary creatures that pop out in a\nmaze or fun house, have the plagues come out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7904","eutychus-article","type-eutychus-article","status-publish","hentry","category-eutychus"],"yoast_head":"\n