This Is Esau

Material

• Bowl

Steps

1. Show the bowl in which Esau would have eaten.
2. Recite and mime the rhyme. Encourage the children to do the gestures with you.

Nursery Rhyme

• This is Esau, the little boy
• When he falls, he’s grumpy

(Make a grumpy face.)

• Baby Jacob sometimes makes him angry.

(Mime an angry face.)

• Sometimes he looks sad

(Make a sad face.)

• Outside, Esau is happy

(Make a happy face.)

• We all look a little like Esau

(Make a big gesture to show all the children, then yourself.)

• This is how God made us

(Point to the sky.)