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The Ten Commandments (Commandments 1-5)

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Projects and Activities
	Teaching the Ten Commandments by Barry Huff
	"The Ten Commandments - The Making of the Covenant" by Mary Jane Chaignot
	Making Hand Puppets to Teach the Ten Commandments by Genelle Austin-Lett
	Posters of Commandments 1-5
	Writing the Commandments as Beatitudes
	Fun Memory Activity to Learn the Commandments by Sally S. Johnston
	Turn the Commandments into Questions by M.P. Foerster
	Create a mnemonic to memorize the order of the Ten Commandments
	Design a Ten Commandment game
	Commandment Review
Puzzles, Mazes, Coloring, etc.
	The Ten Commandments - Match the numbers of the commandments with each law of God
	The Ten Commandments - In Which One use the code to find out which commandment Jesus called most important
	The Ten Commandments - Fill in the missing letters in Laws Set in Stone
	The Ten Commandments - Unscramble the Ten Commandments
	The Ten Commandments - Fill in the missing word or words to complete each commandment
	The Ten Commandments - Hidden word search on the ten commandments
	The Ten Commandments - Match the number with the commandment
	The Ten Commandments - Circle the pictures in the photo album that follow the ten commandments
	The Ten Commandments - Read the clues to complete the crossword puzzle on the ten commandments
	The Ten Commandments - Write the ten commandments in your own words
	The Ten Commandments - Unscramble the ten commandments
	The Ten Commandments - Find the letters to discover what Moses found on the mountain top
	The Ten Commandments - Match the number of the commandment with each rule for life
	The Ten Commandments - Look at the scenes on the TV screens and identify which commandment the actors are breaking
	1st Commandment - A Word Search about God's protection of Daniel
	1st Commandment - Another puzzle about Daniel and the Lions
	1st Commandment - Break animal/letter code to discover the commandment that tells us to obey.
	2nd Commandment - Decipher the message in Three Brave Friends
	2nd Commandment - Find your way through the lion's mane maze in Daniel in the Lion's Den
	2nd Commandment - Nebuchadnezzar's Giant Statue maze
	3rd Commandment - Find your way through the Burning Bush Maze
	3rd Commandment - Complete the math problems to Break the Code and discover what God said to Moses
	4th Commandment - Circle letters to find out what happened to Joshua and his army in Seven Times Around
	4th Commandment - Circle the differences in Marching Around Jericho
	4th Commandment - Wall Breaker -- Complete Math Problems to Decipher How the Israelites Broke Down the Walls of Jericho
	4th Commandment - Find your way through the Jericho Maze
	5th Commandment - Color in the spaces to find out What Did Jesus Do when his parents found him in the temple.
	5th Commandment - On The Trail helps children discover Jesus' question to his parents when they found him in the temple
Bible Stories and Discussion Questions (read online and lookup in your Bible)
	The Ten Commandments Overview • God Gave Moses’ Rules (pre-school children) • God’s Rules (younger children) • God’s Ten Commandments (younger children) • The Mountain That Smoked and the Words That Were Spoken from It (older children / teens)
	First Commandment (Ex. 20:3) Read: Daniel 6:1-28 Daniel and the Lion’s Den • Daniel and the Lions (younger children) • Daniel in the Lions’ Den (older children / teens) • Discussion Questions
	Second Commandment (Ex. 20:4) Read: Daniel 3:1-30 Fiery Furnace • A Very Hot Fire (younger children) • What the King Saw in the Fiery Furnace (older children / teens) • Discussion Questions
	Third Commandment (Ex. 20:7) Read: Ex. 3:1-18 The Burning Bush • The Burning Bush (younger children) • The Voice from the Burning Bush (older children / teens) • Discussion Questions
	Fourth Commandment (Ex. 20:8) Read: Joshua 5:13-6:27 Jericho • A Wall Falls Down (younger children) • Walls of Jericho Fell Down (older children / teens) • Discussion Questions
	Fifth Commandment (Ex. 20:12) Read: Luke 2:42-52 • Lost (younger children) • Jesus at the Temple (older children / teens) • Discussion Questions
Listen to Bible Stories (online)
	Daniel in the Lion's Den (told by four-year-old Katie)
	Three Hebrew Boys and the Fiery Furnace (told by five-year-old Jacob)
Living with the Bible
	Healing Messages - An eight year old shares how she prayed
Parenting with the Bible
	Living the Ten Commandments
	The Ten Commandments, Always New and Fresh
Bible Overview - Bible Characters
	Three hebrew boys stand up for the commandments
Teen Time - Make a Difference
	For Teens - How three of the commandments can help us make a difference