Service – Example – Follow Jesus: LDS Lesson Activity: Helping Hands Connection, Come, Follow Me: How can I become more Christlike in Service?

POST-AND-PRESENT ACTIVITY. FOLLOWING JESUS: HELPING HANDS SERVICE CONNECTION. Youth can teach this to children to learn how Jesus is the example of how we can help others. These “helping hands” examples will help them connect with Jesus Christ – they will want to be like Him as they learn to follow the way He served. He is our perfect example and as we serve one good deed at a time we become more like Him. 

Great for COME FOLLOW ME, Primary and Family Home Evening, Sunday School, Bible Study, Daily Scripture Devotionals

YOUTH can teach this lesson to children.
Objective: Help children/youth learn how Jesus is the perfect example for them to follow. Here they will learn ways to show service as they follow the “Helping Hands” examples of Jesus.

TO MAKE VISUALS: 
1. Print, color (or print in color), and cut out the images of the banner, hands, and wordstrips. Make two copies of each set of hands: Jesus’ hands (shown left) and children’s/youth’s hands (shown right). 

2. Glue the corresponding Jesus and child/youth wordstrips on the backs of hands.
3. Laminate images and an entire poster separately.
4. Mount the sign on a poster paper to present. Post images on the poster as shown for children/youth to match.

ACTIVITY:
1. Ask children/youth, “Who has set a good example for you in your life on how to choose the right?” Write names on the board, including the name of Jesus Christ. Tell them Jesus has set a perfect example for us because He is perfect. He does everything Heavenly Father commands Him to do. Jesus wants us to love and serve others. In Acts 10:38, we read Peter’s words, Jesus’s Apostle, saying that Jesus went about “doing good.”
2. Ask children/youth, “What are we doing that’s good?” Then say, “Let’s play this Helping Hands Connection game to see if we are doing as good as Jesus did. To make the Helping Hands Connection, let’s take turns turning over a hand of Jesus and placing it on the left and placing our Helping Hand on the right to see if we can make a match or a connection.” The actions of Jesus need to be similar to your actions. When you make a match, place them in the center together (as shown).

THOUGHT TREAT: Helping Hand Cookies. Girls especially love this activity as they get to paint the fingernails different colors. Cut out hand-shaped cookies using sugar cookie dough. Bake. Add a bit of orange or pink to white frosting to make a flesh color. Frost nails different colors. Talk about how our hands do so many things to serve.

Source ST.2014.1b