GAME ACTIVITY. CHOOSE TO FOLLOW Sheep or Goat? situation slap game. Youth can learn Jesus’ Parable (Matthew 25:31-46) to help them make the right decisions. The sheep sit on the right hand of God by choosing the right to live with God again. The word-strip choices will help them slap left (goat) or right (sheep).
Use For: Primary and Home, Come Follow Me, Youth & Doctrinal Classes, family home evening, Sunday School
OBJECTIVE: To help children/youth learn to apply the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats found in Matthew 25:31-46 by playing the Sheep and Goat Situation Slap Game.
Lesson Lifesaver Activity:
Sheep and Goat Situation Slap Game
Tell youth that in the Parable of the Sheep and Goats, the sheep are the ones that sit on the right hand of God. By choosing the right and serving our Heavenly Father, we are choosing to one day live with Him again in the kingdom of God.
TO MAKE Print slap pad, and cut up and place situation word-strips in a container to draw from.
TO PLAY:
1. Divide group into two teams.
2. Take turns having a player from each team stand or kneel at the slap pad placed on the table, board, or floor.
3. The two players stand or kneed with their hands to their side, ready to slap the SHEEP or GOAT on the pad.
4. Children can take turns drawing and reading a situation word-strip aloud but giving the SHEEP or GOAT answer.
5. Players guess which situation is a SHEEP (good action), or the GOAT (bad action) by slapping their hand on the SHEEP or GOAT. The first to guess right receives a point for their team.
Tell players that the SHEEP is placed on the right of the pad as the SHEEP symbolizes those who choose the right.
6. Add up the points; the team with the most points wins!
7. Have everyone say, “Choose the right to keep heaven in sight.”
THOUGHT TREAT: Choose the Right Cupcakes. Frost CTR on top of a frosted cookie.
SCRIPTURE CHALLENGE CARD: Help youth 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.
Matt. 25:37-38; 40 “When saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? . . .. And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
“INHERIT THE KINGDOM (sheep)”
Matthew 25:34-46 separates sheep from goats
Youth can memorize and listen to this verse in Matthew 25:40 in this video “And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
Matthew 25 | Ye Have Done It unto Me | The Bible
. . . MORE LESSON IDEAS . . .
For the Parable of the Sheep and Goats situation slap game
The above activity illustrates ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES #4 and 5 in the lesson (see ideas above or click the Lesson 27 link below).
LESSON. To add to and enhance the above activity see (HERE) Lesson 27 – Primary 7 Manual – Parable of the Sheep and Goats.
Youth can learn from the Sheep and Goats game above that the sheep will sit on the right hand of God and prosper because they (the people represented as the sheep in the Parable) are those who are righteous.
Discuss the following quotation:
“There will be a wise and just God to sit in judgment on all men. … [GOATS] The wicked may prosper for a time, the rebellious may seem to profit by their transgressions, but the time is coming when, at the bar of justice, all men will be judged, ‘every man according to their works’ (Rev. 20:13). No one will ‘get by’ with anything. On that day no one will escape the penalty of his deeds, no one will fail to receive the blessings he has earned.
Again, the parable of the sheep and the goats gives us assurance that there will be total justice” (Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness, pp. 304–5).
