Because we were focusing all the lessons-styles of drama on this Bible story, I wrote this during the nap break in Vietnam. They take an hour after lunch and all lay on the floor of wherever they are to sleep!
Audience Participation Storytelling:
teach actions or a repeated word/words
ie.
- NILE: “Shhhhhh” hands make motion of a river running right to left.
- EGYPT, EGYPTIANS: Eyptian tune, walk like an Egyptian poses R & L
- HEBREWS: “God’s People!”
- BABY, BABIES: “Ahhh.” Rocking/holding a baby.
This is a story about a
river called Nile in a land called Egypt. where they had made
slaves of the Hebrews. It’s also a story about a brave sister who saved
her brother who was a baby.
The king of the Egyptians
didn’t like the Hebrews. He
made a terrible plan. He said to his soldiers, “you must kill all the boys who
are babies.”
Of course this made some
people very afraid! Who was afraid? The Hebrews.
One smart mother who was a Hebrew
had a very clever idea what to do with her new boy Moses, who was a baby.
She and her family lived
near the river Nile so she made a basket that can float to hide her
Moses baby in the tlal grass at the edge of the river Nile.
Her daughter Miriam watched
carefully everyday to keep him safe from the Egypt…..tians who didn’t
like the Hebrews.
But one day the Princess,
Daughter of the evil king of the Egyptians, came with her friends to
take a bath in the Nile.
And what did she find there
in the Nile?
A baby!
“Oh No!” thought the sister,
“She is an Egyptian! Shill will kill my Moses baby!”
But the princess loved the baby
and took him out of the Nile, and home to her palace in Egypt.
The smart sister told the
princess that her mother could be his nurse, so the mommy of Moses came to live
in the palace and that’s how a baby was found in the Nile got
saved from the Egyptians, and eventually became the leader of the Hebrews.
©2014 Kimberly Creasman.
kimberly.creasman@crmleaders.org
