For our second go round with Isaac and Rebekah, I found this great song/hand motion poem here and the girls both loved hearing it and acting out the story! For our first craft we revisited the water pitcher craft from last year (but updated it using old water bottles).
We also made bracelets like those given to Rebekah by Abraham's servant (although these were made of pipe cleaners and foam shapes rather than gold). Faith insisted on making 2 each to conform to the story, I just love her little attention to detail!
This was the first Bible story time we did where a name in the Bible was someone Faith knew, namely her sister, Rebekah. Although I think it might have confused her at first but she figured out that her 1 year old sister had never ridden on a camel. It was also great timing because we'd been talking about my ring and how that meant I was a wife, and then we had to point out every one's rings to show whether they were a husband or a wife and Genesis 24:67 states that Rebekah "became his [Isaac] wife" and she was proud of herself that she knew that the Biblical Rebekah must have worn a ring.
We read Genesis 24:4, 12-26, 58-67. Our first craft was making bracelets like the ones Abraham's servant gave to Rebekah. Ours were not gold however, they were beads!
Our next craft was a water pitcher, like the one that Rebekah carried on her shoulder. I printed out Genesis 24:13-14 and Faith helped me tape it with packing tape onto a water bottle with a pull top, one that she could open on her own. When she is older and we repeat this craft (and we will because she liked it) I'll give her a pitcher with a screw cap. She poured her water into Lady's water bowl since we don't have a camel trough!
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