Imagine
the worst storm you have been in, now picture it being 10 thousand times worst
with hail. But not just any old hail, but fire encased hail. Yep, that is what
the Lord brought down on the land of Egypt during the 7th plague.
Little
balls of fire filled hail fell from the sky during this 7th
plague and killed all that were out in the fields, animals and all. Well, only
the Egyptians because the Israelites in Goshen were spared from the storm.
Today’s
edible plague was fun. I picked Hot Tamales Candies to represent the fire and
big marshmallows to represent the hail. Before starting this plague, the
candies and marshmallows were mixed together, but this morning after reading my
Jewish friends post on my Instagram about how the fire was encased inside the
hail I knew I wanted to make it more realistic. So, I cut the marshmallows in
half and stuck a Hot Tamale inside of it. The gooiness of the marshmallow made
the candy stick to it even better.
The
kids were not too thrilled with the Hot Tamales. Well, at least McKenzie and
Micah were not and they made sour faces to prove it. Mikayla and Montana
enjoyed eating the fiery cinnamon flavored candies. Since the candies have been
mixed in with the marshmallows since last week, the marshmallows took on the
cinnamon flavor as well.
As
I read from Exodus 9:13-35 New International
Version (NIV), the girls and Micah snacked on their treats and began to color
the craft for the day which was a Hail mobile.
The
Plague of Hail
13 “Then the Lord said to Moses, “Get up early
in the morning, confront Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let
my people go, so that they may worship me, 14 or this time I will send
the full force of my plagues against you and against your officials and your
people, so you may know that there is no one like me in all the
earth. 15 For by
now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with
a plague that would have wiped you off the earth. 16 But I have raised you up[a] for
this very purpose, that I might show you my power and that my name
might be proclaimed in all the earth. 17 You still set yourself
against my people and will not let them go. 18 Therefore, at this time
tomorrow I will send the worst hail storm that has ever fallen on Egypt,
from the day it was founded till now.
19 Give an order now to bring your livestock and
everything you have in the field to a place of shelter, because the hail will
fall on every person and animal that has not been brought in and is still out
in the field, and they will die.’”
20 Those
officials of Pharaoh who feared the word of the Lord hurried to bring their slaves
and their livestock inside. 21 But those who ignored the word of the Lord left their slaves and
livestock in the field.
22 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out
your hand toward the sky so that hail will fall all over Egypt—on people and
animals and on everything growing in the fields of Egypt.” 23 When Moses stretched out
his staff toward the sky, the Lord sent
thunder and hail, and lightning flashed down to the ground. So the Lord rained hail on the land of
Egypt; 24 hail fell
and lightning flashed back and forth. It was the worst storm in all the land of
Egypt since it had become a nation.25 Throughout Egypt hail struck everything in the
fields—both people and animals; it beat down everything growing in the fields
and stripped every tree. 26 The only place it did not hail was the land of
Goshen, where the Israelites were.
27 Then
Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,”he said to them.
“The Lord is in the
right, and I and my people are in the wrong. 28 Pray to the Lord, for we have had enough thunder and
hail. I will let you go; you don’t have to stay any longer.”
29 Moses
replied, “When I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands in
prayer to the Lord. The
thunder will stop and there will be no more hail, so you may know that the
earth is the Lord’s. 30 But I know that you and
your officials still do not fear the Lord God.”
31 (The flax
and barley were destroyed, since the barley had headed and the flax was in
bloom. 32 The wheat
and spelt, however, were not destroyed, because they ripen later.)
33 Then
Moses left Pharaoh and went out of the city. He spread out his hands toward the Lord; the thunder and hail stopped, and
the rain no longer poured down on the land. 34 When Pharaoh saw that the
rain and hail and thunder had stopped, he sinned again: He and his officials
hardened their hearts. 35 So Pharaoh’s heart was hard and he would
not let the Israelites go, just as the Lord had
said through Moses.”
The craft was a fun one today. McKenzie especially enjoyed the
coloring and gluing on cotton balls to her cloud. I did print this on cardstock
because we were going to be gluing cotton balls on and I wanted it a little
sturdier than regular copy paper would afford. Montana is normally the last one
to finish coloring because she wants to color every detail, so Mikayla and I
worked ahead and strung the balls of hail with some cool elastic cord I found
last year.
We ended up hanging the girl’s clouds of hail from the light
fixture. It just so happens that the light fixture is over our classroom globe.
The girls had a great geography discussion of what was being rained down upon
with hail and fire as they spun the globe.
And just like that we have completed 7 out of the 10 plagues! This
study has been so great. The hands-on learning has really helped my girls
retain the information. Especially McKenzie. She was able to narrate back to
our Auntie and cousin over the weekend about the first 5 plagues that we had
covered last week. They were quite impressed with her knowledge of the plagues!
Join us again tomorrow as we start our decent of the last 3
plagues in which the Lord mocks the Egyptians. Have you missed a post? Check
out the links down below and catch up.
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*Almost* Edible Plagues
River to blood ~Nile River {bottled} water and Hawaiian punch packet
Frogs ~ gummy green and white frogs
Frogs ~ gummy green and white frogs
Lice ~ black jelly beans
Flies ~ toy flies
Livestock ~ Mother’s pink and white animal cookies
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