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.)