*Almost* edible 10 Plagues study ~ The Plague of Darkness

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Can you imagine living in total darkness for three days? Well, I guess if you are from Alaska or somewhere in northern Canada it would be no big deal because you are used to it. But complete darkness? Personally, I think that would be just a bit scary. Especially since it says that the darkness was so thick that you could not see anyone else else or move about. That’s what happened to the Egyptians when Pharaoh once again decided he would not let the Israelites go to worship the Lord.

We had a sweet treat this morning of Oreo cookies. I used these cookies and decorated them with little tiny eyes. To make the eyes I used a dab of white frosting and mini chocolate chips. A friend suggested on my Instagram account that chocolate cupcakes would work for this plague too. I will keep that in mind for when I go back through these plagues with Micah when he is older. The children loved the cookies and Madison even joined us for a sweet treat.

The reading for today came from Exodus 10:21-29 New International Version (NIV)

The Plague of Darkness

^21 “Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness spreads over Egypt—darkness that can be felt.” ²² So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days. 

²³ No one could see anyone else or move about for three days. Yet all the Israelites had light in the places where they lived.

²⁴ Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go, worship the Lord. Even your women and children may go with you; only leave your flocks and herds behind.”

²⁵ But Moses said, “You must allow us to have sacrifices and burnt offerings to present to the Lord our God. ²⁶ Our livestock too must go with us; not a hoof is to be left behind. We have to use some of them in worshiping the Lord our God, and until we get there we will not know what we are to use to worship the Lord.”

²⁷ But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was not willing to let them go. ²⁸ Pharaoh said to Moses, “Get out of my sight! Make sure you do not appear before me again! The day you see my face you will die.”

²⁹ “Just as you say,” Moses replied. “I will never appear before you again.””

After I read to the children I always ask them questions to check for comprehension or have them narrate the story back to me. When someone misses a detail someone else is always quick to jump in and tell the fact. I have said it before but I love that they are making the connections to the Bible stories and remembering so much.

Our craft for the day was so much fun! We made these fun plague of darkness sunglass eyes. This was a simple craft to complete just like many of the ones we have previously done. It didn’t have any coloring to it, just printing and cutting and pasting. The final products turned out so cute!

I can’t believe that tomorrow is the last installment of our 10 Plagues study and we will learn about the ultimate plague for the Egyptians. The Lord had a plan when he started all of these plagues and it is fulfilling to see Him carry them out in His word.

Tomorrow at sundown also marks the beginning of Passover. It is a celebration of freedom from when the Lord freed his people from the Egyptian slavery to their Exodus to the land that he promised them. I pray you have a blessed Passover celebration!

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*Almost* Edible Plagues

 River to blood ~Nile River {bottled} water and Hawaiian punch packet
Frogs ~ gummy green and white frogs

Lice ~ black jelly beans

Flies ~ toy flies

Livestock ~ Mother’s pink and white animal cookies

Boils ~ Capt'n Crunch Berries {just the red berries}

Hail and Fire ~ Hot Tamales encased in big marshmallows

Locusts ~ toy grasshoppers

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*Almost* edible 10 Plagues study ~ The Plague of Locusts

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Today we ventured through the 8^th plague, the Plague of Locusts. I don’t know about you but that just gives me the heebee jeebees thinking about grasshopper covering the land so that it was black. I am not a huge bug/insect fan, but I am working on it. But still, I would be no good with this Plague of Locusts.

Micah was a bit disappointed that there was no edible part for today. So much so that he tried to eat our toy grasshopper! Yes, yes he did. He proceeded to cry afterwards because it was not edible. Ah, such is the life with a toddler. Lucky for him tomorrow I have a sweet treat planned.

Our craft for the day, a clothespin grasshopper, was a bit complex in the fact that it had so many parts. I chose to laminate the bodies after the girls colored them instead of mounting them on construction paper. It made them a little more durable especially in the hands of the aforementioned toddler. Once again, I read from the Bible as the girls worked on their grasshoppers.

Exodus 10:1-20 New International Version (NIV)

The Plague of Locusts

10 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials so that I may perform these signs of mine among them ² that you may tell your children and grandchildren how I dealt harshly with the Egyptians and how I performed my signs among them, and that you may know that I am the Lord.”

³ So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may worship me. ⁴ If you refuse to let them go, I will bring locusts into your country tomorrow. ⁵ They will cover the face of the ground so that it cannot be seen. They will devour what little you have left after the hail, including every tree that is growing in your fields. ⁶ They will fill your houses and those of all your officials and all the Egyptians—something neither your parents nor your ancestors have ever seen from the day they settled in this land till now.’” Then Moses turned and left Pharaoh.

⁷ Pharaoh’s officials said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the Lord their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is ruined?”

⁸ Then Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. “Go, worship the Lord your God,” he said. “But tell me who will be going.”

⁹ Moses answered, “We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, and with our flocks and herds, because we are to celebrate a festival to the Lord.”

¹⁰ Pharaoh said, “The Lord be with you—if I let you go, along with your women and children! Clearly you are bent on evil.^[a] 11 No! Have only the men go and worship the Lord, since that’s what you have been asking for.” Then Moses and Aaron were driven out of Pharaoh’s presence.

¹² And the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over Egypt so that locusts swarm over the land and devour everything growing in the fields, everything left by the hail.”

¹³ So Moses stretched out his staff over Egypt, and the Lord made an east wind blow across the land all that day and all that night. By morning the wind had brought the locusts; ¹⁴ they invaded all Egypt and settled down in every area of the country in great numbers. Never before had there been such a plague of locusts, nor will there ever be again. ¹⁵ They covered all the ground until it was black. They devoured all that was left after the hail—everything growing in the fields and the fruit on the trees. Nothing green remained on tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.

¹⁶ Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you. ¹⁷ Now forgive my sin once more and pray to the Lord your God to take this deadly plague away from me.”

¹⁸ Moses then left Pharaoh and prayed to the Lord. ¹⁹ And the Lord changed the wind to a very strong west wind, which caught up the locusts and carried them into the Red Sea.^[b] Not a locust was left anywhere in Egypt. ²⁰ But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go.

I hope you have enjoyed reading about our adventures through the 10 Plagues so far and the crafts that we have done. The next two plagues will be so great as the Lord shows his hand and mocks the Egyptians as He prepares to bring the final, ultimate plague. 

I hope to see you back here tomorrow!

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*Almost* Edible Plagues

 River to blood ~Nile River {bottled} water and Hawaiian punch packet
Frogs ~ gummy green and white frogs

Lice ~ black jelly beans

Flies ~ toy flies

Livestock ~ Mother’s pink and white animal cookies

Boils ~ Capt'n Crunch Berries {just the red berries}

Hail and Fire ~ Hot Tamales encased in big marshmallows

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*Almost* edible 10 Plagues study ~ The Plague of Hail & Fire

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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 7^th plague.

Little balls of fire filled hail fell from the sky during this 7^th 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

Lice ~ black jelly beans

Flies ~ toy flies

Livestock ~ Mother’s pink and white animal cookies

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*Almost* edible 10 Plagues study ~ The Plague of Boils

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Yay, it’s a new week of fun learning the last of our 10 Plagues. Today we dealt with the Plague of boils. Now, that just sounds downright miserable. Open sores all over your body, no thank you! That Pharaoh is so stubborn!

 

Today was our first day that Mikayla did not join us during our morning time study. She was at the gym training, it’s her double day where she stays from 8am-6pm, and we got home super late last night from our trip to the Science & Engineering Festival that I didn’t have my stuff together to send her with her craft project to work on. It’s okay though, she can make it up in the morning and still be good. Plus, Micah will surely want to taste our edible “boils”, aka Capt’n Crunch Berries, just the red ones.

In the first part of the scripture reading this morning, it talks about taking soot from the furnace and tossing it into the air. I was going to ground Oreo cookie bits into a fine powder and let the girls toss it into the air, but then my better judgement kicked in. Can you imagine the mess that would make, fun and memorable, yes! But a little messier than I wanted to have on a Monday morning.

Exodus 9:8-12  New International Version (NIV)

The Plague of Boils

⁸ Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot from a furnace and have Moses toss it into the air in the presence of Pharaoh.⁹ It will become fine dust over the whole land of Egypt, and festering boils will break out on people and animals throughout the land.”

¹⁰ So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh. Moses tossed it into the air, and festering boils broke out on people and animals. ¹¹ The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils that were on them and on all the Egyptians. ¹² But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart and he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had said to Moses.

Our craft today was to make a picture of a boy with boils on him. This is done in a similar fashion as the first plague where we used the glue overlay. This time I did use a glue stick instead of white glue and we had better results.

Sidenote here, does anyone have any suggestions as to how to keep this little boy off the table? He only sits on top of the school table. I think it’s because he wants to be in the center of the action, but man is it hard. I probably take him down 50 times a day. Okay maybe not that many but it sure does seem like a lot.

Be sure to come back tomorrow as we tackle the Plague of Hail & Fire we have a sweet treat and a fun craft too.

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*Almost* Edible Plagues

 River to blood ~Nile River {bottled} water and Hawaiian punch packet
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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*Almost* edible 10 Plagues study ~ The Plagues on Livestock

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We wrapped up our first week of *Almost* edible plagues today with The Plague of Livestock. I almost didn't get to post this blog tonight because it is late and we have a full day of softball games and gymnastics practices in the morning. But I really wanted to finish out the week and I have uniforms in the wash so here I am.

Micah was so cute this morning. He ran straight to the table and chair after breakfast with the sign and waited for us to open the next plague container. He loves cookies and how could I resist that sweet face! I was hoping to find the pink and white Mother's cookies with the sprinkles, but I could not find them at either supermarket I visited, and I was not about to venture into Walmart, especially on a payday.

For the plague of livestock I read from Exodus 9:1-7New International Version (NIV)

The Plague on Livestock

9 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to 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.” 2 If you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them back, 3 the hand of the Lord will bring a terrible plague on your livestock in the field—on your horses, donkeys and camels and on your cattle, sheep and goats. 4 But the Lord will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and that of Egypt, so that no animal belonging to the Israelites will die.’”

5 The Lord set a time and said, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this in the land.” 6 And the next day the Lord did it: All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one animal belonging to the Israelites died.7 Pharaoh investigated and found that not even one of the animals of the Israelites had died. Yet his heart was unyielding and he would not let the people go."

The kids worked coloring in their livestock animals. I printed them on regular printer paper and then laminated them for durability. Montana's horse/donkey had an unfortunate experience with the new laminator and came out quite wrinkled and crumpled. She is from hereforth banned from laminating things and I convinced her it gave her animal character and a dead animal should have.

The girls are halfway through coloring their 10 Plagues color wheel also. Each day they color one tenth of the picture. By next week I will laminate and we will assemble for a keepsake along with our other crafts we are completing.

McKenzie remarked how stubborn Pharaoh is. She just wants him to let the people go already! Patience my dear child, in time he will relent when the greatest plague of all is handed down upon the Egyptians.

That's it for this week, we have had a blast so far and I can't wait to continue next week. The girls are learning and recalling the Bible facts and that is great to me. Tune in next week as we go through the remaining five plagues, The Plagues of Boils, Hail & Fire, Grasshoppers, Darkness, and of the First Born. We have some great crafts lined up along with some fun edible treats!

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 *Almost* Edible Plagues 

River to blood ~Nile River {bottled} water and Hawaiian punch packet 

Frogs ~ gummy green and white frogs
Lice ~ black jelly beans

Flies ~ fly straw rockets

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