A big thank you to Kate from Jesus-Without-Language.net for contributing this game and accompanying printable.
Preparation
Download and print the Plagues Dominoes Printable.
(This is a reduced set of dominoes best played with 2-3 players. You may want to print additional sets if you are playing with more than 3 people.)
Paste each page onto your card or stiff paper and cut out all the dominoes.
How to Play
Mix the dominoes and place them in a pile all facing down.
Each player takes 7 dominoes from the pile.
One extra domino is turned faced up on the table to start the game.
Players take turns to make the pathway longer by placing matching symbols together.
Each symbol can only be matched once.
If a player is unable to take a turn they must pick up another domino to add to their pile.
The winner is the first to get rid of all their dominoes or the one with the fewest left when the pile is gone.
For older children : challenge them to connect the plagues in order.
Bible Lesson – 10 Plagues of Egypt
Discuss
1. Did you enjoy this activity? Why or why not?
2. Was it easy for you to find somewhere to place your dominoes?
3. How long a chain did you make?
4. Did you recognize any of the pictures you were matching?
5. Do you know of any Bible story that may have all these different things in it?
Read
Read a children’s version of the 10 plagues of Egypt as found in Exodus 7-12.
Discuss
6. Can you match the symbols on the dominoes to the plagues? (Give the children a few minutes to do this.)
7. Why do you think Pharaoh was afraid of losing his slaves?
8. How do you think the Egyptians felt about the Israelites after the plagues just kept coming?
Read
Exodus 12:33
Discuss
9. Who would you have liked to be in this story: an Egyptian? the Pharaoh? an Israelite?
10. How can we be stubborn sometimes, like the Pharaoh?
Conclude
Sometimes following what God has planned can be uncomfortable. Sometimes God shows us clearly by sending people like Moses, other times he sends signs, or speaks to us through his word, the Bible. (Thankfully he doesn’t often send plagues!) God asks us to be willing to change our minds and learn from him. That means that we may have to give up things that are convenient and normal for us. If God asks us to do something for him we shouldn’t just ignore the message.
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