Water from the rock craft

This was for when God gave the Israelites water in the desert.

They all got a wee bottle of water to drink. We then had a fascinating discussion about where our water comes from. Rough approximation of how it went:

Me: We don't get water from a rock. Where does our water come from?

Child: The tap.

Me: And how does it get to the tap?

Child: In pipes.

Me: Where does it come from before that?

Child: People make it.

Me: No, you can't make water.

Child: The sea?

Me: You wouldn't want to drink water from the sea, because it has salt in it. Our water comes from a lake called Loch Katrine. How does it get there?

Child: In lorries?

Children living in Scotland who have no idea that the water in our taps comes from the rain!!!

Unfortunately I don't have a finished photo of any of the kids' work as we ran out of time. That's my demo picture.

You will need:

• Pale blue card/paper
• Yellow/sand coloured paper/card
• Brown wrapping paper (I used two kinds, one for the rock and one for the faces)
• Coloured/patterned paper (I used wrapping paper and scrap paper), crayons etc.
• Thin plastic food bags - cut in half length ways.
• Blue 'irridescent shreds' -  I got these in the party section of Home Bargains. Blue parcel ribbon, or even narrow strips of blue carrier bags would do as well.
• Lolly sticks or similar.
• Glue, scissors.
• Glue dots or something that can hold a stick.

What to do:

1.  Tear the blue paper in half. Each child gets half a sheet and sticks it on the yellow card, to make sky/sand (actually sticking the sand on blue card would be better, but I didn't have any).
2. Give each child a piece of brown paper (roughly) half the size of the background. They tear/cut around three sides to make a rock. Stick it on.
3. Give each child half a plastic bag. they gather it at one end and tape near the top of the rock - they're likely to need help!
4. Tape a few blue strips to the 'water'.
5. Now, let them make people with the coloured paper. They can draw as well. Add the sun, or do whatever.
6. Give Moses a stick.