Baby Moses Basket River
This map shows the nile river which is where baby moses was found by pharaohs daughter.
Baby moses basket river. The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. As a newborn moses is placed in a basket and hidden in the nile to save his life from pharoahs orders to kill all hebrew sons. A man from the tribe of levi married a levite woman. He is found by pharoahs daughter who takes pity on him and allows him to live.
Pharaoh the king of egypt was worried that there would be too many israelites to control if a war happened so he sent out an order to throw the hebrew baby boys into the nile river. Moses mother puts him in a basket and places it in tall grass along the nile river. Place the cut out hands over the picture of baby moses and tape or glue the bottom part of the hands to form the bulrushes in the river. Read why and what happened next.
Children can each color a picture of moses in the river inside a basket. Then children can trace and cut out their hands out of brown or green construction paper. Moses sister miriam watches as pharaohs daughter finds moses. During the time when moses was born the people of israel were slaves in egypt.
As a baby moses was placed in a basket and set adrift amid the reeds by the side of the nile river.