PRIMARY Class & Family Scripture Study
“What Shall I Do to Inherit Eternal Life?”
Interactive Activities For Youth
New Testament LESSON 17
Teaching Primary & Home – Come Follow Me just got easier with our activities for APRIL (week #4)
Theme: “What Shall I Do to Inherit Eternal Life?”
Matthew 18; John 10
YOU WILL FIND:
• SCRIPTURE SCHOLARS to get them reading.
• Then scroll down to find Lesson-Match Interactive Activities to match the CFM curriculum
TEENS
See our new SUNDAY SCHOOL interactive activities for this month RIGHT HERE
Lesson 17 Scripture Scholars
Week’s Scripture Scholars BOOKMARKS & scripture POP-UP Includes:
• BOOKMARKS with Come, Follow Me scriptures to read and discuss topics for Primary and Individuals and Families. Also, for Sunday School (teens).
• POP-UP to glue in scripture binding next to the scripture you underline.
EXTRA ITEMS (not included) … THERE’S MORE:
• STAMP. Award readers with a STAMP for the week’s scripture reading. See below to find matching STAMPS.
• STAMP KEEPER. These can be placed on the STAMP KEEPER (see below) where you can collect 50 stamps for the year
Lessons 14-18 Scripture Scholars
April’s BUNDLE of BOOKMARKS, POP-UPs, and STAMPS. Glue STAMPS onto the STAMP KEEPER (to download separately, below).
APRIL STAMPS $1.50
Stamps for weeks 1-5 Scripture Scholars Lessons 14-18 – New Testament – Included in the BUNDLE
STAMP KEEPER (1-53 stamps) $3.00
This is included in the January BUNDLE (or, download it below)
Click on the weekly lesson posters (below) to find interactive activities:
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. . . FORGIVING OTHERS AS JESUS FORGIVES . . .
I should always forgive others.
As you read Matthew 18:21–35, consider your own experiences with forgiveness and what the children need to know about this principle.
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Tell the parable of the unmerciful servant (see Matthew 18:23–35).
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Explain that when someone is unkind or unfair, we will probably feel angry or sad at first. But forgiveness means we can feel peace again. When we forgive someone, we decide not to be angry with them anymore. (Help the children understand that if someone is being unkind or unfair to them, they should ask their parents or another trusted adult for help.)
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Write I forgive you on the board, and tell the children that these words can help turn sad moments into happy ones. Draw a sad face on the board, and share some examples of children forgiving one another. After each example, invite a child to change the sad face to a happy one.
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Sing with the children a song about forgiveness, such as “Help Me, Dear Father” (Children’s Songbook, 99). Share your testimony that Heavenly Father will help us forgive others.
OLDER CHILDREN
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Heavenly Father will forgive me as I forgive others.
The parable of the unmerciful servant can be a memorable way to teach the children that Heavenly Father wants us to forgive everyone.
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Read Matthew 18:23–35 with the children. Explain that the king or lord represents Heavenly Father, the servant represents us, and the fellow servant represents those who have wronged us. Ask the children questions like “What does this story teach about how we should treat others? When have you found it hard to forgive someone? How did you let go of those hurt feelings? When have you needed to be forgiven for a wrong choice?”
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Show the video “Forgive Every One Their Trespasses: The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant” SEE ACTIVITY BELOW (Ages 8-11) (ChurchofJesusChrist.org) to help the children visualize this parable.
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Write on the board the multiplication problem 70 × 7, and help the children solve it. Ask someone to read Matthew 18:21–22, and explain that Jesus used this number to teach us that we should always forgive.
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Ask the children to help you think of a few situations where someone might need to forgive another person. Invite the children to act out how they would show forgiveness in those situations.
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Sing with the children a song about forgiveness, such as “Help Me, Dear Father” (Children’s Songbook, 99). Help the children understand what the song teaches us about forgiving others.
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ACTIVITIES FOR:
I should always forgive others.
Heavenly Father will forgive me as I forgive others.
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. READ MORE
AGES 1-5 ACTIVITY. I CAN FORGIVE OTHERS! poster or coloring page. Children can learn the story of how Joseph who was sold into Egypt, forgave his brothers for selling him as a slave. Joseph was made in charge of the grain that fed the people in a famine. When his brothers came to get the grain, he forgave them. We can forgive others. The HOME ACTIVITY tells them to forgive when someone hurts them. READ MORE
JESUS SHOWED MERCY
AGES 4-7 ACTIVITY. FORGIVE, FORGET, FOREVER, FOR JESUS necklace. Children can be reminded to 4-Forgive others, Forget what they did, Forever, For Jesus, knowing this is a commandment. Teach them a story of how Jesus forgave His disciples when they turned the children away. Jesus told them to bring the children to Him. He taught the children and let them know He loved them (Luke 18:15-17). SEE VIDEO (above) READ MORE
AGES 8-11 ACTIVITY. UNMERCIFUL SERVANT forgiveness story wall hanging. Youth can connect this Matthew 18:21-35; 6:12, 14-15 story with D&C 58:42 filling in the blanks to discover how Jesus’s disciples were not forgiving and were afflicted with the greater sin. The Lord is the one to forgive; we are required to forgive all. READ MORE
SCRIPTURE MEMORIZATION. FORGIVENESS rebus scripture poster D&C 64:10. Youth can follow the pictures to guess the words to connect with this message from Jesus Christ on forgiveness. Doctrine and Covenants 64:10 “I, the Lord, will forgive whom I will forgive, but of you it is required to forgive all men.” READ MORE
SINGING FUN. HELP ME, DEAR FATHER song visuals. Children can know from singing these “Help me, dear Father” words that they need to “freely forgive all …” They ask for help in repenting, making things right, and changing their ways. “Help me, each day, Father, I pray; Help me live nearer, nearer to thee.” READ MORE
. . . LOVE & SERVE MY NEIGHBOR . . .
Jesus taught me to see all people as my neighbors and love them.
The parable of the good Samaritan can show children who our neighbors are and how we should treat them. Think of ways you can inspire the children to “go, and do … likewise” (Luke 10:37).
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Ask each child, “Who is your neighbor?” Summarize the account in Luke 10:25–37, and share how Jesus answered that question. What did Jesus teach about how we should treat our neighbors?
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Read Luke 10:25–37 as the children act out the parable of the good Samaritan. Help them think of ways they can be like the good Samaritan by showing love and kindness to others.
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Write a few examples of situations where someone would need help, and hide the papers around the room. Ask the children to find the papers. Read the situations, and invite the children to share how they could show kindness to the person in that situation.
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Sing with the children a song about kindness, such as “Jesus Said Love Everyone” or “Kindness Begins with Me” (Children’s Songbook, 61, 145).
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Help the children think of a few ways they show love and kindness to others. They could also draw pictures of themselves doing these things.
OLDER CHILDREN
I can love and serve others, especially those in need.
Ponder times in your own life when someone has been “a good Samaritan” to you. How can you inspire children to be “good Samaritans” to others?
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Assign each child to quietly read part of the parable of the good Samaritan. Invite the children to tell their parts of the parable in the order the events happened.
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Explain to the children that the Jews disliked the Samaritans so much that when they traveled from Jerusalem to Galilee, they would go around Samaria to avoid interacting with any Samaritans. To illustrate this, show Bible map 1, “Physical Map of the Holy Land.” Why would Jesus use a Samaritan as an example of kindness in this parable? What does this story teach us about helping others in need? (See also Mosiah 4:16–22.)
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Ask the children to share an experience when someone was like the good Samaritan toward them.
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Challenge the children to set a goal to be like the good Samaritan this week. You might ask them if they know someone who is sick or lonely or someone who does not attend church regularly. Ask the children how they could help that person. Help the children understand how serving others helps them keep the promises they made at baptism (see Mosiah 18:8–10).
DOWNLOAD Baptism Promises match game (HERE or below)
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ACTIVITIES FOR:
Jesus taught me to see all people as my neighbor and love them.
I can love and serve others, especially those in need.
POST-AND-PRESENT ACTIVITY. BAPTISM PROMISES TO SERVE match game. Youth can renew covenants when they are baptized. They promise to: Bear one another’s burdens, Mourn with those who mourn; Comfort those that need comfort; Stand as a witness, and Keep the commandments (Mosiah 18:8-10). READ MORE
AGES 1-5 ACTIVITY. I CAN SHARE & CARE Good Samaritan show-and-tell. Encourage children to express love for others through kind words and deeds. In Luke 10:33-34 this Good Samaritan story can motivate children, then write on the back of the activity ways they want to serve others. READ MORE
AGES 4-7 ACTIVITY. BE KIND – LOVE OTHERS John 15:12 rebus memorize. Youth can learn that being kind is a commandment. “This is my commandment that ye love one another as I have loved you.” READ MORE
John 15:12 “This is my commandment that ye love one another as I have loved you.”
CHILDREN ACTIVITY. MY CIRCLE OF LOVE spin and serve game. Children can spin the spinner to the person to serve in the circle, then tell ways to love and serve. READ MORE
SINGING TIME. “JESUS SAID LOVE EVERYONE” song visuals. Children and youth can learn from these hearts that “Jesus said love ev’ryone; Treat them kindly too. When your heart is filled with love, Others will love you.” As we study the scriptures we learn that Jesus showed us how to love others. This way we can be like Him and one day be happy in His presence. READ MORE
SINGING FUN. KINDNESS BEGINS WITH ME song visuals. Youth can sing this simple song to remind them to “be kind to everyone.” “Kindness begins with me.” READ MORE
SUMMARY OF SUBJECTS FOR:
NEW TESTAMENT
Matthew 18; Luke 10
APRIL (week 4)
Lesson 17: April 17-23, 2023
“What Shall I Do to Inherit Eternal Life?”
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