LESSON LIFESAVER Activity

CHOICES & CONSEQUENCES match game

Help children understand the importance of using their agency to choose and act for themselves (Ages 8-11).

6 Visuals (Color and Black & White) and instructions or lesson plan.

DETAILS (below)

TO MAKE. Print and cut out the Choices & Consequences match game cards for each child.

TO PLAY. Mix cards and lay them facedown. Divide children into two teams. Take turns turning cards over to make a match. The team with the most matches wins.

ACTIVITY:

Talk to children about their ability to make choices for themselves and explain how each choice has a consequence. Play this game to show what can happen when we make good and bad choices. Notice the pointed cards are the choices and the indented cards are the consequences (making it easier to match).

THOUGHT TREAT Choose the Right Crackers. Give each child four soda crackers. Ask each child to make up three good choices and one bad choice. As children share their three good choices, have them eat their crackers. When they name a bad choice, have them CRUSH one cracker into a bowl (symbolizing they do not want that choice). Crush it!

IDEAS FOR (the above activity):

Discuss the consequences, good and bad, that come from our actions. Emphasize that God blesses us when we make GOOD choices. We can’t have God’s blessings and protection when we make BAD choices. Here are some examples of choices and consequences to discuss (found on the cards):

GOOD Choices & Consequences:

#1 ⇑ Pray (receive help or guidance in God’s time)
Matthew 7:7: Jesus promises, “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”

#2-5 continued on in the pdf download.

BAD Choices & Consequences:

#1 ⇓ Be grouchy at home (family does not get along)
Proverbs 15:13 "A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance ..."

#2-3 continued on in the pdf download.

SEE MORE: Good & Bad Choices & Consequences (here)

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You'll love using the Bright Ideas Lesson Planner page included in the pdf download (with the above activity).