THE TEN COMMANDMENTS USE FINGER PLAY TO TEACH THEM TO YOUR LITTLE CHILDREN
From Renee EllisonTeach the Ten Commandments EASILY to your children and grandchildren with finger play.
Number 1:
Hold up one finger.
"Only one God. No other gods."
Number 2:
Hold up two fingers of left hand (pointer and tall man) and make them touch side by side (like they were glued together to function as one) and then bow them up and down tightly together.
"Don't bow down to idols."
Number 3:
Hold up three fingers of left hand (pointer, tall man, ring man) then place across lips as if to say "mums the word."
"Don't take God's name in vain."
Number 4:
Hold up four fingers of left hand and then fist them up over their folded-in thumb to make a pillow and then "sleep" on it to connote day of holy rest.
"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy."
Number 5:
Reach full right hand of five fingers forward in a hand-shake to parents.
"Honor your father and your mother."
Number 6:
Take pointer of right hand and stab palm of left hand (that is employing six fingers to "make the point!" of . . .
"Do not kill."
Number 7 :
Hold up left hand fingers splayed, then hold up only thumb and pointer of right hand, (splayed). Explain that each hand's fingers represent a separate family/household, then interlock only the thumbs telling the child that the thumbs are wrongly connecting with the other household's wife or husband as if he or she were their own. The interlocking thumbs is a powerful visual image of adultery.
"You shall not commit adultery."
Number 8:
Tuck thumbs in splaying eight fingers up while saying "who stole my thumbs?"
"You shall not steal."
Number 9:
Lay left-hand palm facing up to ceiling, bring four fingers from right hand over to lay in left palm, close left fingers over the four fingers like covering them with a blanket while they lie in bed (like four monkeys in a bed).
"Do not lie."
Number 10:
Spray all ten fingers, bring tips of thumbs together to touch, making a vacant box shape between the two hands in the middle. Bring the hands up to face, putting that box shape under the chin (the thumbs touching, fingers of both hands standing tall and glued together like walls of a house) and look through it like a window, coveting what is in your neighbor's yard.
"Do not covet."
Bingo! Got 'em memorized for life!
RENEE ELLISON
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