USE FOR: COME FOLLOW ME, Primary and Home (family home evening), Activity Days, Sunday School, Bible Study
Little LESSON LIFESAVER Activity
Light up My Life! 10 Commandments key-word cake
OBJECTIVE: To teach the children/youth that keeping the Ten Commandments will bring happiness (like the cake that is lit).
ACTIVITY: 10 Commandments keyword cake
Talk about the ingredients that make a cake and compare it to the 10 Commandments, the “ingredients” God gave to Moses. Living the ten commandments will make your life sweet. It will also bring light to our life, just like the candles that light up a cake.
Tell the youth that obeying the commandments can be a “piece of cake,” or as easy as 1, 2, 3. Here’s how: (1) Read the scriptures daily to learn about the commandments of God. (2) Pray to know what you should do to keep the commandments. (3) Listen to the Spirit of the Holy Ghost to help you keep the commandments.
To Learn Commandment Keywords: Look up the scripture and write in the keywords to the 10 Commandments on the candles. Youth can make up their own keywords or use these (shown above, reading left to right): Love God, No graven images, No swearing, Keep the Sabbath holy, Obey parents, Do not kill, Be chaste, Do not steal, Do not lie, Do not envy (Exodus 20:3-17).
TO MAKE Print and cut out the 10 Commandments keyword cake for each child.
THOUGHT TREAT: 10 Commandment Cupcakes. Make 10 cupcakes with a candle on each and pretend to light candles. Talk about the Spirit of the Holy Ghost that lights our way when we obey the commandments. The Holy Ghost can also leave (pretend to blow out candles, if at church, or light them and blow them out at home) when we don’t obey. As we obey the commandments we build character and become more like Jesus.
YOUTH CAN TEACH using this LESSON 21 The Ten Commandments from the Primary 6 Old Testament manual.
. . . Review the attention activity, for which the above activity illustrates.
SCRIPTURE CHALLENGE CARD: 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.
1st Time Moses Received the 10 Commandments (Exodus 31:18)
“And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.”
God then destroyed them as the Israelites were not ready to receive them.
2nd Time Moses Received the Commandments (Exodus 34:27-28)
“And he was there forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.”
