YOUTH GOAL ACTIVITY. I WILL BE VALIANT AND TESTIFY OF JESUS! balloon maze. Youth can unscramble the missing letters and place them in the word box to learn ways to share valiant testimonies: Faithful; Courageous; Trustworthy; Prayerful; Virtuous; Honest; Repentant; Obedient
Great for COME FOLLOW ME: Primary, Sunday School, Seminary, family home evening, or Bible Study
Little LESSON LIFESAVERS
I Will Be Valiant and Testify of Jesus! balloon maze
ACTIVITY: Help youth learn how to acquire a valiant testimony that can help them testify of Jesus Christ and His and Heavenly Father’s plan of salvation.
1. Color the balloon maze as follows: Find the missing letters that go in the word box by drawing a line (with different colored crayons, pencils, or markers) to the balloon.
2. Unscramble missing letters and place them in the word box to learn ways you can be valiant (ANSWERS below).
TO MAKE Print the balloon maze in color or in black-and-white and have the youth color the balloon maze (see #1 above for instructions on how to color).
THOUGHT TREAT Balloon bite-size cakes. (Or, purchase or make cake pops – see video below)
To Make: (1) make a batter with 18 ounces of white or yellow cake mix, ¾ cup of water, and 2 eggs. (2) Divide the batter into four containers. (3) Drop a different food coloring (e.g., yellow, red, blue, green) into the batter. (4) Stir, and drop by tablespoonsful 2” apart onto a greased cookie sheet. (5) Place a two-inch licorice string in the bottom half of each. (6) Bake for 8-11 minutes at 375°.
To Serve Balloon Cakes: As you eat, have youth tell you how they can soar with a valiant testimony (using words on balloon maze, above).
ANSWERS:
Matching Balloons Letters:
Completed Word in the Box.
FAUIHT F A I T H F U L
REUGUOA C O U R A G E O U S
WRHSRUTTO T R U S T W O R T H Y
AFYEURR P R A Y E R F U L
RUOITU V I R T U O U S
EOSN H O N E S T
NAETPEN R E P E N T A N T
NEEDBI O B E D I E N T
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.
• Featured Scripture: Acts 116:30-31, 33
. . . MORE LESSON IDEAS . . .
For Be Valiant and Testify of Jesus – testimony balloon maze
The above activity illustrates how to be VALIANT in bearing your TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST in the lesson* (see ideas above or click the Lesson 43 link below).
LESSON. To add to and enhance the above activity see (HERE) Lesson 43 – Primary 7 Manual – Paul Testifies of Jesus Christ.
*Talk to youth about being valiant in their testimony of Jesus Christ. With the activity above telling ways the Apostle Paul and others bore witness of Him. Read: Acts 14:3, 15, 16:25, 28, 31.
HERE’S HOW THEY TESTIFIED:
• Boldly bore testimony of Jesus Christ.
• Taught about “the living God.”
• “Prayed and sang praises unto God.”
• Stayed in prison and saved the keeper.
• Taught the keeper to “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.”
DOWNLOAD the following Post-and-Present activities to build and share a VALIANT testimony.
Over 100 activities are found on the TESTIMONY Index (below).
Sing with youth the songs “I Will Be Valiant,” “Dare to Do Right,” “Stand for Right,” “I Want to Be a Missionary Now,” and “We’ll Bring the World His Truth.”
DOWNLOAD song visuals below.
