Making Bricks

Exodus 5 tells the story of how the children of Israel were making bricks.  The Egyptians taskmasters provided the straw.  Then when Moses and Aaron asked king Pharoah to let them go a 3 days journey into the wilderness, Pharoah told the taskmasters to stop giving straw to the Israelites slaves.  Instead they would have to gather stubble for straw and still make the same number of bricks.

Today we read the story and the boys got to work:

1st they made the mud - what delight for two boys!

I gave them the straw:

Using mud & straw, the boys made "bricks":

Next they went to gather stubble instead of straw:

Making bricks again!