COMMANDMENTS Activity: Commandments Opposites Match Game – Come Follow Me Teens, Sunday School,

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

LESSON LIFESAVERS
Commandment Opposites Match Game

OBJECTIVE/ACTIVITY: By playing this match game youth can gain a better understanding of how commandments are broken and kept and learn how this could prevent or help them fulfill their divine roles.

TO MAKE Cut out commandments.

TO PLAY:
1. Lay them facedown on a flat surface.
2. Take turns turning cards over to make an opposites match (e.g., “Jealousy, envy, greed” matches with “Do not covet”). When a match is made, have the youth tell specific things they can do to obey this commandment.

Examples: “Let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly” could be “watch only G and PG movies, play worthy music, hum a hymn when I think a bad thought”).
 3. Talk about how each action might affect their abilities to fulfill their divine roles.
4. Play until all matches are made. The person or team with the most matched cards wins!

Answers (matching cards are in the same position on the second page), e.g., the “Choosing not to marry, choosing not to have children, homosexuality” card matches with the opposite “Multiply and replenish the earth” card.

THOUGHT TREAT: CBU (Cinch-By-Inch) Wafer Cookies. Provide three wafer cookies for each youth and have them write a letter “C” “B” and “I” on each of the crackers with a tube of frosting. Mark the wafers along the sides like a ruler, showing the inch, quarter-inch, half-inch, and three-fourth-inch marks (using short lines like a ruler).
     Tell youth that keeping the commandments is “a cinch by the inch.” when we resist temptation each day, we can fulfill our divine roles and return to our heavenly home. This way we stay on the path and we are always ready to return to our Heavenly Father. 
     Review the 12 ideas found on the game as you eat the wafers.