Young ones will delight in making a thee dimensional picture of baby Moses hidden among the paper reeds. Craft the reeds in the swamp the first Sunday and then the baby on a second Sunday. I recommend that adults cut the egg carton parts in advance for their little ones. They also need to attach the basket to the paper reeds with hot glue for the children.
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| Baby Moses hidden in the reeds from Pharaoh's servants and soldiers. Read this story in Exodus 2:3. |
- construction papers in browns, yellow and cream for reeds
- scissors
- white school glue
- paper egg carton
- two cotton balls and cream yarn for bunting
- brown yarn for basket
- scrap cardboard
- hot glue and hot glue gun (optional)
- pink embroidery floss for facial features
- black paper for facial features
Step-by-Step Instructions:
- Decide what size you want your 3D paper picture to be. Then cut fat lengths of multi-colored construction paper to fit the length of your picture. These pieces should be approximately five to six inches wide. I cut mine using brown, yellow, cream and gold construction paper.
- Now fringe these lengths of paper leaving approximately one inch at the end un-cut.
- Curl the fringe using the inside edge of your scissors, gently. Be careful not to curl the paper with too much pressure or it will tear.
- This fringe will become the "reeds" for baby Moses' basket to float among. Glue them down the length of your construction paper, staggering where these are glued to make a marshy looking reed sea.
- Cut an oval from a scrap piece of cardboard for the basket bottom.
- Layer the bottom of the basket with yarn.
- Braid a few strands together and glue this braid along the outside edge of the basket using hot glue to speed up the process. (Adults need to assist with hot glue!)
- Now cut two paper cups from an egg carton. One will be the baby's head the other his body.
- Unravel the cotton balls and wrap these around the lower egg cup to cover the paper baby's body with "swaddling."
- Cover the swaddling with cream colored yarn to finish the surface neatly. (optional)
- The upper egg cup should be covered with white glue and layered with brown paper to make the baby Moses' skin.
- Add a few details to his face like: a hole for an open mouth, a bump for a nose, a bit of yarn for his hair, embroidery floss for his lips, curled back paper for eye lashes etc...
- Hot glue this paper baby Moses into the basket and then hot glue the basket among the curled paper reeds. (Adult needs to help with the hot glue gun,)
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| Left, cut fringes in paper but leave 1" uncut at the bottom. Center, curl som of the fringe with edge of scissors. Right, glue rows of fringe along the length of construction paper, staggering these to make them look like reeds in a marshy area of the sea. |
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| Left, cut oval from cardboard and cover one side with yarn. Braid a length of the yarn to glue on the sides of the "basket" so that it has walls. Talk about what it might have been like for Jochebed, Moses's birth mother to make such a basket to hide him. Right, hot glue the basket in and among the paper "reeds." |
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| Left, cut away two pockets of a paper egg carton to shape a baby Moses. Center, wrap the bunting using a bit of cotton batting and glue around the lower paper egg cup. Then cover this with cream colored yarn if you want to. Right, cover the upper egg cup with brown paper and glue to be baby Moses' head. Trim with facial features. |
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| Baby Moses was hidden among the reeds in the marshes of the sea to keep him safe from Pharaoh's soldiers/servants. His sister, Miriam, watched over him night and day until he was discovered, rescued and adopted by the very daughter (princess) of the man who was trying to kill all Hebrew male babies! |
Watch how God took care of baby Moses,
from Teaching Kids about Jesus.
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