Let’s Eat.!

Topic: Let’s Eat! : Dietary law

Sabbath question of the day

Did God give us a diet?

(Allow child time to respond)

💥We were given a Dietary Law with special instructions to follow.!

📌Dietary law- any rules and customs concerning what may or may not be eaten under particular conditions.

Take a look at this picture:

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What foods do you see?

Do you see your favorite foods here?

Which foods do you think God wants us to feed to our bodies?

(Allow child to “point to” or “circle” the foods as they answer the questions.)

LET’S EAT…… let’s get into the Dietary law God set up for us (the Israelites)

📖 Reading time 📚

Leviticus 11

(Read & discuss this chapter)

Leviticus 11:46-47

In these scriptures God made it clear that there is a difference between clean and unclean animals we CAN or CAN NOT eat.

📌Clean= good to eat

📌Unclean = not good to eat

🚨DIETARY LAWS FOR BEAST🚨

Leviticus 11:1-8

📌Clovenfooted - having the foot divided into parts

📌Cud- is the food brought up into the mouth from the first stomach called the rumen and chewed again.

(Review photos)

💥Find that Beast

Deuteronomy 14:4-5

This is a list of some Clean beast, search the web to find pictures of those animals named in the scripture

Deuteronomy 14:7-8

(Do the same for the unclean beast listed.)

Leviticus 17:10-14

fully cook ALL meat, raw meat is UNCLEAN to us.!

🚨DIETARY LAWS FOR FISH🚨

Leviticus 11:9 - 12

📌An abomination- something that is hateful, sinful, wicked, or vile.

Clean fish have BOTH FINS & SCALES

(Review photos)

💥Story time📚

The Bravest Fish

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-as your child reads the book be sure to Point out the clean and unclean animals? Ask:

Do you think Stanley’s friends are clean fish? Is the Loster a clean fish? Read the story and complete the activity

💥Label Stanley the fish

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🚨DIETARY LAWS FOR BIRDS🚨

Leviticus 11:13-21

Feel free to search the web for the birds listed in these scriptures.

💥My plate:

clean & unclean

Cut and paste activity

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🚨DIETARY LAWS FOR BUGS🚨

Leviticus 11:22-23

(Read and discuss each scripture)

💥My Animal book

Allow your child to color the pictures and trace the words of each animal.

Cut out each rectangle and staple the sides together to make a book.

Page 1

Page 2

Page 3

Page 4

End of lesson Question All unclean Animals are an abomination to us?

🔴YES

or

🔴No

✌🏽Remember if you are teaching young children repetition is key.

🖍Allow your child to help plan this week’s dinner menu with you.

🖍Make up your own activities to keep this lesson going.!

Thank you, shalom

Happy Happy Sabbath ✌🏽❤️