SERVICE Activity: I’m Happy When I Serve! (Service with a Smile badge) – I’ll Serve Jesus Christ by Serving Others – Come Follow Me

CHILDREN’S LESSON ACTIVITY.  I AM HAPPY WHEN I SERVE! smile rotating badge. Children can turn the smile upside-down when not serving and sunny-side up when they are. It’s a reminder that when we help we are happy and others are happy too. In the song, “Have I Done Any Good” we sing, “Have I cheer up the sad and made someone feel glad.” Talk about why service brings a smile.

USE FOR: COME FOLLOW ME, Primary and Home (family home evening), Activity Days, Sunday School, Bible Study

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I’m Happy When I Serve (Service with a Smile badge)

OBJECTIVE: The lesson helps children understand that they can show love for Jesus Christ by serving others. 

ACTIVITY: Service with a Smile Badge
Children can turn the smile wheel on the badge upside-down when they are not serving or helping others, or right-side up when they serve others. This shows that serving others makes them happy, us happy, and Jesus happy too. Help children say together, “I’m happy when I serve.” Sing the song “When We’re Helping, “ p. 198 Children’s Songbook.

TO MAKE: Print or copy, color, and cut out the activity on cardstock paper. Poke a hole in badge where indicated and on the nose, and insert a metal or button brad. To make a button brad, sew two buttons together on opposite sides (threading thread through the same hole) to attach parts.

THOUGHT TREAT: Service with a Smile Sandwich. Make a sandwich with a cheese smile to remind them to smile when they serve.

MORE LESSON IDEAS:

• Present Lesson 37 – Primary 3 Manual – CTR-A: I’ll Serve Jesus Christ by Serving Others. Review the enrichment activity 3 (p. 184) in the manual for which the above activity illustrates.

MORE LESSON IDEAS (on the subject):

• COME FOLLOW ME New Testament Lesson 11 “These Twelve Jesus Sent Forth” (When I am in the Lord’s service, He will inspire me with what to say.) ⇒

• COME FOLLOW ME New Testament Lesson 21 “The Son of Man Shall Come”(I can use the gifts God has given me wisely. Jesus wants me to serve others.) ⇒

More Lesson Ideas:

• SCRIPTURE POSTER TO DOWNLOAD Mosiah 2:17 – Help children memorize this scripture featured in the lesson: Mosiah 2:17 And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God.

• SHARE VIDEO: If We Forget Ourselves

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