STORY

INTRODUCTION:
Remember as you read that this is different for each age in preschool and that it all depends on if you did Parsha on this story or not. For teaching the story , I used the artscroll children's haggadah and blew up and laminated some colored pictures in there. I used this as my concrete object when telling the story. I also created Moshe's stick. (an old broom stick (children's size)) which i put velcro on. I got boxes of each plague, and stuck them on with velcro.While i am telling of the ten plagues i used this and showed them each one and then stuck it on the stick (the children can help you do this)

STEP ONE: BABY MOSHE
I started with this because it is the beginning of the story. Explain how when moshe was born, the bad man paroh wanted to take him away so his mother put him in a basket and he floated on the water. Make your water table, filled with water, some baskets/bowels with some babies, so they can play out the story by themselves some time. For craft: quite simply make moshe in the basket. decorate a basket (frenchfries container, styrophone bowls-they float..or anything you can think of ) and make a baby (cut our of oaktag etc) and a little blanket (peice of felt or material) have them decorate all three.

STEP THREE: SLAVES IN EGYPT
This is an abstract idea but can be brought down with a bit of acting. by circle time explain that pharo made the jews work hard, even when they were hungry or tired. make your children pick up bricks/ heavy things...tell them do to it faster ....etc. explain the concept of king and slaves. how kings can do what they want and comfortably and slaves are the opposite. have a king and slave snack. do the slave snack(kasha or black bread) first. make them sit straight.... then bring in king's snack( a tray of candies, chipse) let them sit how they want and have as many as they want.

STEP FIVE: SPLITTING THE SEA
This idea can become very concret to them if acted out. By story time/circle time tell them how the jews had to leave FAST! no time to bake bread or pack up. they had to leave. have the kids pick up their backpacks and run with you. have on the floor two blue sheets. stop in front of them and say " uh oh we can't go, there is water" tell them how hashem made a great thing happen and pull the sheets apart, the kids can walk throught. for craft. take two paper plates. have them color one of them blue, or glue on different shades of blue boxes of tissue paper. On the other plate let them color or dot dot brown and then place stickers of pple or smiley faces (Representative of pple) on it. Split the blue one in half and attach as two separate pieces to the brown one with paper fasteners. This way the children can open and shut them and see the people going through them. This can also be done as a page in the haggadah just replace the plates with color papers. one blue and one brown.

STEP FOUR: TEN PLAGUES
Make sure you have pictures for each so they can understand and visualize eat as you tell them of each one. for crafts:
1) you can make moshe's stick (Especially if you have used it in story time) roll long color paper into a stick then let them pain/color/dot dot it. on top of it you can either put stickers of the plagues (They add as you learn ) examples: animal stickers, grasshopper stickers, frog stickers... or you can get the pictures (small circle pictures for a copy email me) and let the children color all/one or two of them and stick it on
2) since frogs is one all children like (see songs for song) you can make paper frogs. take paper plat fold in half (paint it green) stick eyes on top of it. put mouth in the middle of it (glue to bottom half) and put feet (colored paper strips folded like a fan) glued underneath it. enjoy

STEP TWO : PYRAMIDS IN EGYPT
To explain a little of how egypt is describe how they build pyramids. at circle time give each kid six lego/blocks and help them build it. you can build them out of sugar cubes and marshmellow fluff and you can build a flat one by giving them a color paper and having them glue on colored boxes (precut by you) onto it. this can be a good review for colors.

KARBAN PESACH:
Teach about the korban pesach. We tied a stuffed sheep to the dolls bed. then we gave it to hashem and thats why its a korban pesach. then we made cotton ball sheep and took them home to put on our bed at home.