PRIMARY Class & Family Scripture Study
“Be Perfectly Joined Together”
Interactive Activities For Children
New Testament LESSON 35
Teaching Primary & Home – Come Follow Me just got easier with our activities for AUGUST (week #4)
Theme: “Be Perfectly Joined Together”
1 Corinthians 1-7
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 35 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 32-35 Scripture Scholars
August’s BUNDLE of BOOKMARKS, POP-UPs, and STAMPS. Glue STAMPS onto the STAMP KEEPER (to download separately, below).
AUGUST STAMPS $1.50
Stamps for weeks 1-4 Scripture Scholars Lessons 32-35 – New Testament – Included in the BUNDLE
STAMP KEEPER (1-53 stamps) $3.00
This is included in the January BUNDLE (or, download it below)
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. . . TRUTHS FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT . . .
The Holy Ghost will help you know what gospel principles in 1 Corinthians 1–7 will help the children you teach. As you prayerfully read these chapters, record the thoughts and feelings that come to you from the Spirit.
The Holy Ghost teaches me gospel truths.
One of the Holy Ghost’s roles is to teach us truth. What experiences can you share with the children to help them understand this?
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Show objects or pictures that represent ways we learn about the world (such as a school, book, or smartphone). What can we learn when we use these things? Explain that in 1 Corinthians 2:11, 14, Paul taught that we can learn about God only through the Spirit of God, which is the Holy Ghost. What can we do to learn “the things of God”?
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Clap your hands as you say each syllable in the sentence “The Holy Ghost teaches us truth.” Ask the children to clap their hands and repeat the phrase. Share with the children an experience when the Holy Ghost helped you know that something was true.
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Sing together a song about the Holy Ghost, such as “The Holy Ghost” (Children’s Songbook, 105). Help the children find words and phrases in the song that teach how the Holy Ghost speaks to us and what He teaches us.
DOWNLOAD The Holy Ghost song visuals (HERE or below)OLDER CHILDREN
How can you help the children recognize that they need the Holy Ghost to understand “the things of God”?
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Ask the children to make a list of ways we learn about the world—for example, books, school, and the internet. Then read together 1 Corinthians 2:11–14. What do these verses teach about how we learn “the things of God”?
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Tell about a time when you learned something through the Spirit of God. Help the children identify times when they felt the Spirit. What “things of God” (1 Corinthians 2:11) has the Spirit helped us understand?
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Invite each child to read one of these scriptures: 1 Corinthians 2:11–14; 1 Nephi 10:17; Moroni 10:3–5; and Doctrine and Covenants 8:2–3. Ask the children to share what they learned from these scriptures about how the Holy Ghost teaches us. Why are we grateful for the gift of the Holy Ghost?
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ACTIVITIES FOR:
The Holy Ghost teaches me gospel truths.
ALL AGES
AGES 1-5
AGES 4-7
AGES 8-11
ALL AGES
ALL AGES
ALL AGES
ALL AGES
. . . FOLLOW JESUS CHRIST . . .
Jesus Christ is my foundation.
Children are laying a foundation for their testimonies, and you can help them build a solid foundation on Jesus Christ.
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Read 1 Corinthians 3:11 to the children, and explain that Jesus Christ is our foundation. Show the children several pictures of things we can have testimonies of, including a picture of Jesus Christ. Help them arrange the pictures so that the picture of Jesus is on the bottom, like a foundation, and the other pictures “build” on a testimony of Him.
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Create actions for the song “The Wise Man and the Foolish Man” (Children’s Songbook, 281), and sing the song with the children. Give each child a rock with “Jesus Christ is my foundation” written on it. Let them take the rocks home to remind them what they learned.
DOWNLOAD The Wise Man and the Foolish Man song visuals (HERE or below)
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Share pictures that depict some of your favorite stories from the Savior’s life, and ask the children to tell you what is happening in the pictures. Let them share some of their favorite stories about Jesus. Bear your testimony that Jesus Christ is the foundation of your faith.
DOWNLOAD How Firm a Foundation song visuals (HERE or below)
OLDER CHILDRENBeing wise means trusting in God’s wisdom.
The children you teach will find—if they haven’t already—that some people teach things that contradict God’s wisdom. Studying 1 Corinthians 1:23–25 can help the children understand that we can trust God’s wisdom because it is greater than ours.
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Ask the children to read 1 Corinthians 1:23–25 and find the words wisdom and foolishness. Explain that many people thought Paul’s teachings were foolish, but Paul explained that believing Christ’s gospel is true wisdom. Why is it wise to believe what God teaches?
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Help the children role-play how they could respond to people who think God’s commandments are “foolish”—such as the commandment to have faith in the Savior, keep the Word of Wisdom, or obey the law of tithing. For example, they could testify of the blessings that come from living these teachings.
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Share an experience when others thought that your beliefs were foolish, or share an example from the scriptures. Let the children share similar experiences. How can 1 Corinthians 1:25 help us remain faithful when others call our beliefs foolish?
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ACTIVITIES FOR:
Jesus Christ is my foundation.
Being wise means trusting in God’s wisdom.
ALL AGES
AGES 1-5
AGES 4-7
AGES 8-11
ALL AGES
ALL AGES
ALL AGES
. . . MY BODY IS A TEMPLE . . .
My body is like a temple.
How can you help the children appreciate their bodies as gifts from God and have a greater desire to take care of them?
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Show the children pictures of temples (see this week’s outline in Come, Follow Me—For Individuals and Families), and read these words from 1 Corinthians 6:19: “Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost.” Help the children understand that Heavenly Father wants us to keep our bodies clean and holy, like a temple.
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Display a picture of a child, and put pictures around it of things that are good for our bodies and things that are bad. Invite the children to take turns identifying the good things and removing the bad ones.
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Sing together a song about bodies, such as “Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes” (Children’s Songbook, 275), and ask the children why they are thankful for their bodies.
OLDER CHILDREN
1 Corinthians 6:19–20
DOWNLOAD 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 scripture poster/card set (HERE or below)
I should treat my body with respect and keep it holy.
Understanding that our bodies are gifts from Heavenly Father will help the children keep their bodies sacred, even when they are tempted to do otherwise.
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Bring a container with pictures of a child and a temple inside. Invite the children to read 1 Corinthians 6:19–20 and guess what is in the container. Let them open it and discuss how our bodies are like temples.
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Talk with the children about how we should treat a temple. If our bodies are like temples, how should we treat our bodies? Singing or reading the words to a song about temples, such as “The Lord Gave Me a Temple” (Children’s Songbook, 153), can help answer this question. When we make mistakes, how can we make our “temples” clean again?
DOWNLOAD The Lord Gave Me a Temple song visuals (HERE or below)
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Read together “Your Body Is Sacred” (in For the Strength of Youth [guide, 2022], 22–29). Invite the children to list on the board the counsel they find about how to care for our bodies.
ACTIVITIES FOR:
I should treat my body with respect and keep it holy.
ALL AGES
AGES 1-5
AGES 4-7
AGES 8-11
ALL AGES
ALL AGES
SUMMARY OF SUBJECTS FOR:
NEW TESTAMENT
1 Corinthians 1-7
AUGUST (week 4)
Lesson 35: August 21-27, 2023
“Be Perfectly Joined Together”
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