For CHURCH & HOME Primary, Sunday School, scripture study, and COME FOLLOW ME
Little LESSON LIFESAVERS
I Am Blessed When I Make Right Choices
Choices and Consequences match game
OBJECTIVE: The lesson helps children understand the importance of using their agency to choose and act for themselves.
ACTIVITY: Choices & Consequences match game
Talk to children about the agency to choose for ourselves and that each has a consequence. Play this game to show what can happen when we make good and bad choices. Notice the pointed cards are the choices and the indented cards are the consequences (making it easier to match).
To Play: Mix cards and lay them facedown. Divide children into two teams. Take turns turning cards over to make a match. The team with the most matches wins.
TO MAKE Print and cut out the Choices & Consequences match game cards for each child.
THOUGHT TREAT: Choose the Right Crackers. Give each child four soda crackers. Ask each child to make up three good choices and one bad choice. As children share the three good choices have them eat their crackers. When they name a bad choice, have them crush one cracker into a bowl symbolizing they do not want that choice. Crush it!
. . . Review the enrichment activity 2, for which the above activity illustrates.
SCRIPTURE CARDS: Help children Search and Ponder this scripture card by filling in the blanks. PRINT this 5 x 7 scripture card from the pdf included with the above activity. You can punch the two holes on the left and tie a ribbon to attach cards or use two metal rings to connect cards.
IDEAS FOR (the above activity):
Discuss the consequences, good and bad, that come from our actions. Emphasize that God blesses us when we make GOOD choices. We can’t have God’s blessings and protection when we make BAD choices. Here are some examples of choices (and consequences) to discuss:
GOOD Choices & Consequences:
#1 ⇑ Pray (receive help or guidance in God’s time)
Matthew 7:7: Jesus promises, “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”
#2 ⇑ Attend church (learn the gospel of Jesus Christ)
Matthew 18:20: The Savior promises, “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them”.
#3 ⇑ Be cheerful at home (you make home a happy place)
2 Corinthians 9:7 “Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.”
#4 ⇑ Be kind to a new neighbor (make a new friend)
Proverbs 17:17 “A friend loveth at all times.”
#5 ⇑ Be reverent in church (feel Heavenly Father’s Spirit) Leviticus 19:30: “Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.”
BAD Choices & Consequences:
#1 ⇓ Be grouchy at home (family does not get along)
Proverbs 15:13 “A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance …”
#2 ⇓ Lie (people will not believe you next time)
Tell the story of the boy who cried “wolf” (see video below)
Exodus 20:16 “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.”
#3 ⇓ Steal or cheat (People won’t trust you. You can lose the influence of the Holy Ghost)
Proverbs 12:22 “Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight.”
You’ll love using the Bright Ideas Lesson Planner page included in the pdf download (with the above activity).
