AGES 4-7 GRATITUDE GOPHER’S Grab Bag. Children can give thanks to Heavenly Father for their blessings. They can reach in this grab bag for these items. They will find Home, flowers, eyes, teeth, pets, family, scriptures, cars, friends, food, ears, and legs. Gophers are small animals that dig tunnels. Children can dig deeper than just in the bag to think of more things they are thankful for.
USE FOR: COME FOLLOW ME, Primary and Home (family home evening), Activity Days, Sunday School, Bible Study
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Gratitude Gopher’s grab bag
OBJECTIVE: The lesson helps encourage children to feel and express gratitude to Heavenly Father. Items on the card to be grateful for Home, flowers, eyes, teeth, pets, family, scriptures, cars, friends, food, ears, and legs.
ACTIVITY: Gratitude Gopher’s Grab Bag
Ways to Use the Grab Bag:
1. Children can reach into the bag before they pray to find things to tell Heavenly Father they are thankful for.
2. Play the Gratitude Gopher Game: Divide into teams and have children take turns drawing a card from the bag. If they draw a Gratitude Gopher card, they tell what they are thankful for. If they draw an item/person card, they can tell why they are thankful for that item/person on the card.
TO WIN: Gratitude Gopher cards are worth five points and gratitude cards are worth one point. The team with the most points wins!
TO MAKE:
1. Print or copy, color, and cut out the activity.
2. Glue the grab bag label on a small paper lunch sack or slip it inside a zip-close plastic bag.
3. Place squares inside.
THOUGHT TREAT: Gopher Graham Crackers. Draw a gopher on a graham cracker using chocolate frosting from a tube, adding teeth (white frosting or miniature marshmallows). Tell children that when they show gratitude, like Grateful Gopher, they feel happy (point to Gratitude Gopher’s big, toothy smile).
MORE LESSON IDEAS:
• Present Lesson 24 – Primary 2 Manual – CTR-A: I Can Show Gratitude. Review the enrichment activity # 1 (p. 127) in the manual for which the above activity illustrates.
