Moses

by | Mar 7, 2022

THE FIFTH PLAGUE

This is a puppet! Glue a craft stick into a small paper cup and you have a cow puppet. Add an oval for the snout and paint on black patches and "red blemishes" to form the plague which attacked the cattle. Don't forget to add googly eyes!

STONE FROGS

Find a flat stone and paint it green. Glue green felt circles behind the stone to form ears. Add large googly eyes and a red piece of yarn for the mouth. Your frog is now done!

A SERPENT MADE FROM PEANUTS

This is a "jointed" serpent and it is very flexible! To form the joints cut several small pieces of pipe cleaner. Cut a hole in each end of the peanut and insert the pipe cleaners into both "cuts" to form the joints. Glue very securely. Now your serpent can slither...

A TINY MOSES PUPPET

A peanut forms the head of the puppet. Cut a small hole in the bottom of the peanut. Insert a small stick or popsicle stick into the hole to serve as a holder for the puppet. Glue securely. Paint the peanut "head" and add two eyes and a beard. Wrap a scrap of felt...

MOSES: the 2nd plague—walnut frogs!

    Make frog puppets from painted walnut halves! Add green felt circles for the ears and a piece of red yarn for the mouth. Googly eyes complete the frog. Glue on a popsicle stick to the back to form the handle. You have now made a frog puppet!...

MOSES AS SHEPHERD, STAND-UP FIGURE

Make a stand-up figure of Moses as a shepherd! Copy the pattern below, colour and cut out. Note that the arm is cut out separately. Don't forget to add a paper fastener so that his arm can move! Make your own shy sheep (or two!) peeking out from Moses' robe. By making...

MANNA FROM HEAVEN

Make an Israelite man gathering the manna from Heaven! His basket is made from the bottom of a styrofoam cup! Did you know that the cup can be moulded into a basket shape? Just try it and see! Paint the basket brown. For the figure, just copy out the pattern below,...

A MOVEABLE BABY MOSES

Make a crib for baby Moses! Make Moses' head (a circle on a popsicle stick).  To enable the baby to move cut a slit in the crib so that Moses can be inserted through the slit. See the second photo for an idea of how to make baby Moses. Copy the crib pattern, colour...

MOSES AND THE BURNING BUSH

  TO MAKE THIS CRAFT YOU WILL NEED: red and orange tissue paper, a toilet paper roll and a Styrofoam meat tray HOW TO MAKE THE BUSH: Cut a circle from the meat tray about 2.5” (6.5cm). Paint green. Punch holes in the circle with a pencil point. Cut out “flame”...