Gift = HISTORY

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Zipphorah meets Moses as a wanderer, a runaway, and yet as a man who acts honourably and helps her and her sisters. These games play with the key elements of the story, the runaway, the shepherd life and the well full of water. There is also a make/play post for this lesson (will add link when it arrives)

Wet sheep – If you are blessed with an outdoor area and a warm day this story is a perfect opportunity for water games. Grab a selection of small tables and call them sheep, have the children try and throw each sheep some water. According to age you could add in a scoring system according to which sheep is hit. For those stuck indoors this game works just as well with blue beanbags!

Runaway – Moses had to escape Egypt, and a simple game of tag, or it, or chase would work well as an introduction for this narrative. End the game by sitting for a drink of water to put the kids in Moses shoes.

Which Sister – Print off this game from the Make/Play post. If you played ‘guess who’ as a child then you’ll know exactly how to play.

Pull it up – This is a test of strength using a bucket, rope and pully system. Unless you are blessed with a beam or high wall fixing use a turned up table or even just a chair to throw the rope over. Have the participant lay on the floor and try to pull up the bucket. If they succeed put something in the bucket to simulate water. Talk about how much work raising water for an entire flock would have been.

Sheep separation – (a JWL favourite sheep game) This is a noisy and silly game for a group. Choose 2 herdsmen, and assign them each a colour. Using chairs, or some sort of barriers, make sheep pens. Tell all the other children they must pretend to be sheep, on all fours. If someone comes and stands near them they must turn away from the person. when all the children are on all fours mark their backs with a coloured dot. The herdsmen then need to herd the sheep into the right pen.

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I couldn’t resist adding this little ‘guess who’ inspired game to this lesson on Zipporah and her seven sisters. It’s a simple print and go game and is great for getting to know the characters.

The PDF has 3 pages, print them all out. All you’ll need is some scissors to make up your game, but if you are handy with a craft knife that will make it easier. For printing in colour (or greyscale) PDF – 1 page

If you are not blessed with a colour printer then you may want to add a little highlighting of colour to the characters to make them stand out – make sure you do this identically to both boards and the cards. Then go ahead and cut out all those beautiful little cards.

We need to cut along only the dotted lines of the game board. A craft knife and safety rule is the obvious choice but lightly folding will also allow you to make an opening slit.

Fold all those little flaps upright and set up your game.

Shuffle the character cards and lay them face down on the table. Each player chooses one card and places it on their dark box face down (they can check it anytime, if they need). Take it in turns to ask yes/no questions – is it a man, are they wearing a belt, do they have a stick etc. Until the character is revealed.

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Here are the images you need for the hero’s attributes linked to Zipphorah & Moses.
Each hero set contains a high quality graphic of the character, a take home bible card and a colouring page.

The images are displayed small here, click on the image you wish to have, then save the image that loads.
(Please note : these images have no watermark but are not copyright free, they are only intended for classroom use.)

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Lots of biblical passages involve truly supernatural acts of wonder, but this story of Zipphorah and Moses is much more down to earth, it’s simplicity makes reenactment a great tool and so this shadow puppet theatre is ideal. This is an ideal small group or pairs activity.

The PDF’s prove you with a stage printout and a set of black characters that should be printed onto acetate (this will save hours of cutting), added to that you’ll need some sticks or a second sheet of acetate, scissors, a bright torch, a cardboard tube, some sticky tack and something to support the stage with (a box, some wooden blocks etc). For printing in stage in colour PDF – 1 page For printing in stage with no colour PDF – 1 page For printing black characters PDF – 1 page

Start by roughly cutting out the characters, it really doesn’t have to be exact.

Take your second acetate sheet and cut a strip for each character. The strips will attach to the characters upwards out of their heads.

Stationary objects can be placed on the floor by folding the spare acetate at the base or attaching to acetate folded in half.

Add your stage to the supports using sticky tack – I’ve used wooden building blocks here but you could use anything you a have on hand or make supports using card.

Position your light on the flat surface at one end of the cardboard tube. Adjust the circle of light to fill the back of the stage area.

Take the props and start placing them between the light and the stage. It may take a little time to remember how distance makes things change size and focus.

On with the show.

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Zipporah meets Moses at an interesting point in his life, she sees him through his act of chivalry, and yet the man she meets is broken, on the run. This act of chivalry is what is depicted in this craft, it’s a really simple foldable that helps the kids focus on the story and retell it to others.

To make this craft you will need a pair of scissors, some colouring materials, a craft knife and the PDF printout. I’d recommend pre-cutting the line and printing the craft in partial or no colour (the colour version is available for a display model or as a story prop) For printing in Colour PDF – 1 page For printing in partial colour PDF – 1 page For printing everything with No colour PDF – 1 page

Colour in your masterpiece first, the partially coloured template already has the background done for you. Once you are done cut out the rectangle.

The only tricky bit is cutting the wavy line around Zipporah – this is fine to do on the day for a small group but preparing it before is the best policy.

Once cut fold the line it intersects so the white sides of the paper touch.

Next take the other end and fold those mean shepherds around the back using the dotted line – again the white sides of the paper touch.

Onto the final fold, this one needs to be folded the opposite way, so the coloured sides of the paper touch and Zipporah blocks the sheep drinking water.

Tell the story by moving between the confrontation and the male shepherds leaving.

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