Battle of jericho craft

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This week is Vacation Bible School (VBS) for us and one of our lessons (or so I thought - read here about my mistake) was Joshua and the Battle of Jericho. I had bought a craft book and it had the idea to use graham crackers and rice cakes for Jericho's wall. My students used gummy bears to march around their city, but my own children ate all of the remaining gummy bears so I had to find something else to show you! These cute gingerbread man marshmallows worked perfectly! (Teddy Grahams…

These Bible Story Sequencing Cards can be used after reading a Bible story to children to see what they comprehend about the story and to practice putting

This year when we learned about the battle of Jericho, we got to act it out in a new way! I got little army men from the dollar store and a bunch of mini marshmallows. As a class, we built the town of Jericho out of big and little marshmallows. Then we each took our army men and walked around the city, one time for six days. Then on day seven, God knocked down the walls (read Mrs. Kim jiggled the table) and the army men took the city. Each child got to bring home a baggie of men and…

This week we continued using the awesome Jesus story book Bible which I cannot recommend enough for use at home or in Kid's Church. You can buy it here. I was teaching this lesson to the 4-8 year old age group with the under 3's joining in as much as they wanted and were able to. When the kids arrive there are lots of different blocks laid out for them to build with, lego for the older ones, Duplo, wooden blocks and also some random cardboard boxes to make bigger structures (which are more…

Thanks to Haley Wilson for sharing her photos and ideas! Haley teaches one of the preschool classes with Glenda Wilson. And Glenda create...

Joshua and the battle of Jericho lesson plan and activity

Any retelling of the Battle of Jericho wouldn’t be quite complete without creating a trumpet of some sort to represent the ram’s horns blown by the Israelites in obedience to God’…

Joshua and the Battle of Jericho is a fun story to teach to kids, and we had a lot of fun doing some Joshua and the Battle of Jericho activities together.