DLTK's Bible Activities
Parting the Red Sea Craft

Materials:

• A refrigerator box
  • ask at your local appliance store, to get it home it's okay to cut it in half.
    
• Utility knife
• Blue paint
• Paint brush
• Spray glue
• Sand
• Ribbon or twine
• chairs (small chairs to hold the "sea" in place)
• Optional: rectangle cloths for each child to be used as a headpiece and brown craft paper to be used for a staff.

Directions:

• Cut off one side of the box, then using a utility knife cut "waves" along the top of the two sides.  (I used this with a 2 year old and found that I should not have cut the waves in because they are just the right size that the cut "waves" brushed their faces.)
   
• Paint the sides blue and on the bottom spray glue and sprinkle sand all over the bottom so that it was "dry ground".
   
• To keep it together  put ribbon, twine, anything so that you can tie the Red Sea between two lines of chairs.  (The chairs kept the box in the right position.)
   
• Use rectangles of cloth for the children and tie it on their heads and use brown craft paper and roll it so that each child has a headpiece and walking stick to go through the Red Sea.