POST-AND-PRESENT ACTIVITY. SMOOTH SAILING FAMILY Lovey’s Landing SOS Game. As youth choose boats with family problems, they can drive them to the right Save Our Ship Dock: Faith, Prayer, Repentance, or Forgiveness. For example. Linda Lovey worried about her brother who was very sick. What should she do? Park the boat at the PRAYER dock and invite discussion.
This activity can also give you hope knowing that Jesus, our Savior saved us.
USE FOR: COME FOLLOW ME, Primary lessons, Home lessons, Family Home Evening, Activity Days, Sunday School
POST-AND-PRESENT Activity
My Smooth-Sailing Family
(Lovey’s-Landing S.O.S. Game)
Objective: Tell youth or children, that their family like the Lovey family, can learn to love one another and get through the rough waters or storms of life. We can do this by solving our problems by parking our boats at the right docks: Faith, Prayer, Repentance, or Forgiveness.
TO PRESENT:
1. Divide players into two teams and have teams take turns drawing a boat from the container and reading it aloud.
2. The player’s team can help them decide the best solution to the problem and move their boat to that dock/solution: Faith, Prayer, Repentance, or Forgiveness.
3. If they land at the right dock they earn a point for their team. If not, the other team has a chance to answer by moving their boat to the right dock. After all of the questions are answered, the team with the most points wins!
TO MAKE Print activity in color or black and white. Put boat dock together. Then laminate the boat dock and boats and cut out boats. Place boats in a container to draw from. Have double-stick tape or magnets (if mounting on the chalkboard) ready to mount boats on docks.
THOUGHT TREAT: Banana Love Boats. Slice 1-4 bananas in half like you are making a Banana Split, only instead of ice cream you can add a few squares of chocolate and small marshmallows and melt in the oven 1-2 minutes. Top with a paper sail with a toothpick inserted. The sails could read words on the game above: Faith, Prayer, Repentance, Forgiveness.
I AM A CHILD OF GOD – July Week 1 Sharing Time Lesson Suggests
Encourage application: Ask the boys to stand. Explain that they can each be the father of a righteous family someday. Invite a few of the boys to say something they might do to be a good father. Ask the girls to stand, and explain that they can each be the mother of a righteous family. Ask a few of them to say something they might do to be a good mother. Invite all the children to share something they can do to bring happiness to the families they have now.
Source ST.2004.8
DOWNLOAD (the above) The Family: A Proclamation to the World – Paragraph 7: “Successful . . . families are established and maintained on principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome recreational activities.”
