Week 9 · about 45 minutes
Baby Moses in the Basket
Exodus 2 · Memory verse Psalms 32:7
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Moses in the Basket), the matching word search and answer key (Baby Moses), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a small basket or bowl
Hold up a small basket or bowl. In about five minutes, tell the class this: A brave mother, a watchful sister, and a princess help God hide baby Moses. Show the prop and ask, “What does this have to do with Baby Moses in the Basket?” Let two children answer. Then read Psalms 32:7 together: “You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.” Close by asking one child to say the lesson back in their own words, using the prop.
Story script
God’s people were living in Egypt, and a cruel order said baby boys were not safe. Moses’ mother loved her son. She hid him as long as she could. When she could not hide him at home anymore, she waterproofed a basket and laid him gently in the reeds along the Nile River.
His sister Miriam stood nearby and watched. A princess came down to bathe and heard a cry. She opened the basket and saw the baby. Miriam was brave enough to step forward. “Shall I go and get a woman to nurse him for you?” she asked. The woman she brought was the baby’s own mother.
The princess named him Moses, which sounds like “draw out,” because she drew him out of the water. God used a basket, a sister’s quick feet, and a kind decision to keep a baby who would one day lead God’s people.
God still uses ordinary brave people — parents, sisters, helpers — to protect children. You are not too small to be part of someone’s safety. And when you feel small yourself, God knows how to hide you in the right arms.
Group game
Hide a doll in the basket. Children take turns being Miriam, watching and then finding a helper. Cheer when the baby is safe.
Craft
Weave paper strips into a basket and draw baby Moses. Add the river with blue crayon.
Memory verse
Psalms 32:7
“You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.”
Take-home prayer
God, thank you for protecting baby Moses. Thank you for the people who watch over me. Make me brave and kind like Miriam. Amen.