AGES 8-11. EGYPTIAN PLAGUES crossword puzzle. Youth can learn the 10 plagues the Lord sent through Moses to inflict on the Egyptians for not letting the Israelites go. They will know from this that Moses used his priesthood, the power of God to create these warnings to the slavers. Plagues were: turning water to blood, hail and fire, lice, frogs, darkness, flies, boils, locust, and death of firstborn.
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Little LESSON LIFESAVER Activity:
Egyptian Plagues crossword puzzle
OBJECTIVE: To teach children that the priesthood is the power of God.
ACTIVITY: Egyptian Plagues crossword puzzle
Help children learn the ten plagues the Lord told Moses to inflict upon the Egyptians (using his priesthood power). Remind children that the plagues were sent to tell the Egyptians to free the Israelites from slavery.
Find the down and across words by reading the scriptures (below the puzzle). Answers:
Down: (1) water to blood (2) hail and fire (3) lice (5) frogs (7) darkness (8) flies (9) boils
Across: (4) locusts (6) priesthood power (10) death of firstborn
TO MAKE Print and cut out the Egyptian Plagues crossword puzzle for each child.
THOUGHT TREAT: Egyptian Mummy Marshmallows. Push toothpicks into five large marshmallows to make a mummy-like image. Tell children that the Egyptians wrapped their dead in white linen and placed them in the large tombs. These large tombs were built by the Israelites when they were slaves.
SCRIPTURE CHALLENGE CARD: Help children search-and-ponder this scripture card by filling in the blanks. Print this 5 x 7 card from the pdf included with the above activity. You can punch the two holes on the left and tie a ribbon to attach cards or use two metal rings to connect cards.
Exodus 7:10 (the first miracle Moses and Aaron performed before Pharaoh) “And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the Lord had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.”
LESSON IDEAS (for the above activity):
Present Lesson 19 – Primary 6 Manual – Old Testament: Moses Delivers the Israelites from Bondage.
FROM THE LESSON:
What were the ten plagues the Lord commanded Moses to call down upon Egypt because Pharaoh refused to let Israel go?
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(1) Exodus 7:20–21, river turns to blood
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(2) Exodus 8:6, frogs
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(3) Exodus 8:17, lice
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(4) Exodus 8:24, flies
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(5) Exodus 9:6, cattle die
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(6) Exodus 9:10, boils
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(7) Exodus 9:23, hail and fire
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(8) Exodus 10:14–15, locusts
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(9) Exodus 10:22, darkness
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(10) Exodus 11:5, death of firstborn
What pattern did Pharaoh follow with each plague? (Exodus 8:8, 13, 15.)
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TELL OF ANOTHER MIRACLE: Tell about Moses, after freeing the Israelites from Egypt how they crossed the Red Sea on dry ground.
Ask the children to share a time when they needed help. Explain that King Limhi’s people were in trouble, so he shared a story to help them have faith. FROM THE BOOK OF MORMON Read Mosiah 7:19 to the children, and show a picture of the children of Israel crossing the Red Sea (see Moses Parting the Red Sea, ChurchofJesusChrist.org).
Mosiah 7:19 “Therefore, lift up your heads, and rejoice, and put your trust in God, in that God who was the God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob; and also, that God who brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, and caused that they should walk through the Red Sea on dry ground, and fed them with manna that they might not perish in the wilderness; and many more things did he do for them.”
