Psalms 81 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Open Your Mouth Wide

Answers here are a guide. Welcome any answer that shows a child is thinking about the story, and celebrate their effort. Talk About It questions are open, so they have no set answers.

PreschoolSing a Song

trumpetmoonpeoplerock

Coloring and finding page: any careful coloring is a win. Help your child point to and name each picture above.

KindergartenSing to God

HORN → picture 3MOON → picture 1SING → picture 4PEOPLE → picture 2

Grade 1Listen to Me

Blow the trumpet. → picture 4Hear, my people. → picture 3Open your mouth wide. → picture 1I would feed you the finest wheat. → picture 5Honey out of the rock. → picture 2

Order:

1. Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob2. Blow the trumpet at the New Moon3. I removed his shoulder from the burden4. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock

Grade 2Open Your Mouth

How should we sing to God? Loud (circle)
What should be blown at the feast? The horn (circle)
Where did God bring his people from? Egypt (circle)
What will God fill? Your mouth (circle)
What does God want to feed them? Good wheat and honey (circle)

Grade 3Oh That My People Would Listen

What instruments are named? Tambourine, lyre, harp and trumpet
When is the trumpet blown? At the New Moon, on the feast day
What did God remove from his people? The burden from their shoulder
What does God say about opening your mouth? Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
What would God feed them with? The finest wheat and honey out of the rock

1: Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob2: Blow the trumpet at the New Moon3: I removed his shoulder from the burden4: I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock

Grade 4A Feast and a Warning

Why did Israel keep this feast? To remember how God freed them from Egypt
What burden did God remove? The burden of slavery, the basket on their shoulder
What command does God repeat? There shall be no strange god in you.
What happened when Israel did not listen? God let them walk in their own stubborn ways.

Word bank: 1. Sing; 2. trumpet; 3. Egypt; 4. God; 5. mouth

Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

Grade 5Oh That My People Would Listen

How does the psalm move? From joyful worship to sober warning
What does the basket picture? Forced labor in Egypt
What is God's judgment in verse 12? He gives them what they chose, letting them follow their stubborn hearts.
What does the psalm teach about worship? Worship that does not listen to God misses the feast.

Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.