Whining and complaining

Yes, I know, this story belongs a lot earlier in the Exodus account. I doubt any of our people noticed though. :-) We had talked about manna when we talked about honoring the Sabbath. This time we talked about water and quail, with emphasis on the people's whining and complaining, not trusting that God would provide.

Included were:

The bitter water at Mara, with Moses throwing a tree branch (broken off of Zaccheus' sycamore, I love it when I can recycle props) into the crumpled-blue-tissue-paper water supply.

The water that came out of a rock (came out from behind the folded table that the rock was taped onto) when Moses struck it.

The flock of paper quails that came "flying" down among the Israelites when they were complaining about not having meat to eat.

We did craft ahead of game time this week. The craft was making slingshots such as perhaps the Israelites could have used to bring down the quail. Tied two craft sticks together in an x-shape, with the top part of the x being much larger, then strung a twisted rubber band across the top. Then of course we shot down (or tried to shoot down!) some stand-up quail targets using the slingshots, with small squares of cardboard, the same size/shape as our "manna wafers" but that could be folded slightly around the rubber band for gripping & shooting.

I was standing behind the targets and got hit a lot more often than the quail. I guess they wanted to eat "hippo meat" more than they wanted quail, ha!