Third and Fourth Plague: Lice and Flies 3'21

  

The Old Testament tells us of 10 Plagues and  8 days... What to do?

Our solution... combine a couple of those plagues together in a couple of days.

First Combo is lice and flies.

We started the day off with a large toy fly sitting on the edge of Bruce's egg and matzah breakfast.

You should have seen the look on Bruce's face.

Lunch was cream of Mushroom soup with lots of fresh coarsely ground pepper to look like flies and lice climbing in the bowl.

By then Bruce was really getting into this plague,

 and soon had the lice fighting over his matzah

By the time dinner time rolled around, 

Bruce als0  had the lice surrounding the Pharaoh and threatening the Pharaoh's family.

In fact,  Bruce was pretty unhappy with me when I put the lice and flies away.

 Lice or gnats: Ex. 8:16–19

"And the LORD said [...] Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt." […] When Aaron stretched out his hand with the rod and struck the dust of the ground, lice came upon men and animals. All the dust throughout the land of Egypt became lice.

— Exodus 8:16–17

For those of you who might want to try this at home, my local Dollar Tree came through with props for the lice made from rhinosaurus beetles found in their children's toy section ( I just clipped off the proboscis to get a close representation of a louse) and Dollar tree also had lots of toy flies.

Jamie Geller helped out a lot with edible snack suggestions for this plague. e.g. I used dark chocolate Nonpareils to symbolize a white lice-covered desert snack.

See: Edible 10 Plagues - Jamie Geller