Fruits of the Spirit decision maker
POST AND PRESENT IDEAS: (1) Mount visuals on a poster with tape, or a chalkboard with magnets, or (2) Place on a table with youth sitting around the table.
INSTRUCTIONS (below)
Step 1 – Talk about the Fruit: Discuss the following to help youth learn if the fruit they are placing on their tree of life is good fruit.
• One day Jesus gave a Sermon on a mountain to 5,000 people (Matthew 7:18-21) and He taught them about a good tree producing good fruit and a bad tree producing evil fruit and what happened to the fruit.
• Jesus said, “a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit” (place a smiley fruit visual on the tree), neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit (hold up a frowny fruit visual). “Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire [place frowny fruit into the fire]. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” (See Step #2 that follows.)
• Jesus said that those who keep Heavenly Father’s commandments can enter into the kingdom of heaven. Those who do evil “shall not inherit the kingdom of God (Galatians 5:21-22).”
• Jesus also said, “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5:25).” It is not enough just to “live in the Spirit,” to come to Primary each week or have a family home evening and learn about choosing the right, we must also “walk in the Spirit,” by obeying God’s commandments. This will produce good fruit on our tree and make us strong.
• Jesus’ disciple, the Apostle Paul told us how we can tell if our tree is bearing good fruit. He said, “the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance (Galatians 5:22).”
Step #2 – Place the Fruit: Youth can find fruit that is worthy to enter God’s kingdom and place it on the tree or fruit that is unworthy and place it in the fire.
- Have the youth take turns coming up and choosing a piece of fruit and reading the action on the back of the fruit. These are to be pasted on the back of the fruit. Example LONGSUFFERING (pear-shaped fruit) reads “Madeline knew that it would be a long drive home, and her parents were tired from the trip. Even though she wanted a drink and something to eat, she didn’t complain.”
- If it is a good choice or good fruit they can place the fruit on the tree. If it is a bad choice or bad fruit they can place it in the fire.
- Read Matthew 7:8-20 “A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.”
- Also, see Alma 5:52 “And again I say unto you, the Spirit saith: Behold, the ax is laid at the root of the tree; therefore every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be hewn down and cast into the fire, yea, a fire which cannot be consumed, even an unquenchable fire. Behold, and remember, the Holy One hath spoken it.” DISCUSSION POINTS (Choice, Jesus Christ, Scriptures) • Jesus wants us to make the right choices so we can return to live with Him and our Heavenly Father someday.• Good choices can make us feel good, happy, and at peace.• Bad choices can make us feel sad, unhappy, and lonely.• We bring joy and happiness, or good fruit, to others when we are gentle and kind.• We can repent when we are unkind, selfish, or angry.• Jesus wants us to work hard at being kind and helpful, doing good to others. By our “good fruits,” others will know we follow Jesus Christ.• In the scriptures, Jesus teaches us how to put forth good fruit.
TO MAKE Print activity in color or black and white. Color and cut out the tree, fruit, fire, and fruit wordstrips. Mount tree and fire on a poster and laminate the entire poster. Glue the fruit wordstrips on the backs of matching fruit, e.g., the LOVE action wordstrip goes on the back of the LOVE fruit. Laminate fruit. Place the double-stick tape on the back of the fruit visuals to mount on the tree or around the fire.
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what happens if I don’t get everything uploaded within 72 hours? Will I not be able to access it anymore?
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I cannot find the downloads on my computer. How do I get back to my order and print it instead of downloading it?
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Is there a way to purchase packets and have them mailed to me? Takes a lot of ink and paper to download.
Our customers find it less expensive to take pdf files to copy/print shops where it is done for a small fee. See the bottom of our HOME page to give print shops permission to make the copies for you.
Thanks you so much for making the wonderful song charts.
The activities for the current sharing time year are only previewed here. They are not available for download (copyright issues). They are only available in the books or CD-ROMs available in the bookstores or online. See https://gospelgrabbag.com/sharing-time-2/.
Each of the posters you purchase come in three sizes: (1) LARGE with two pages to mount together (approximately 11 x 16 when combined), (2) MEDIUM 8-1/2 x 11 size, and (3) the SMALL card-sized posters (to handout).
I regenerated the file for you as it says you didn’t download it completely.
We don’t publish the book or CD any longer. They are only available online. Thanks for inquiring.
We are working on getting this online. We can let you know soon. There may be some still available online (check there) http://deseretbook.com/Super-Singing-Activities-Family-Home-Evening-Primary-Mary-H-Ross/i/4502158
No you do not need to purchase it again. We would be happy to regenerate it for you. Just e-mail us at maryrosscontact@gmail.com.
They should be available soon. Please let us know songs that are not underlined that you would like. Then we can go to work on having them available for you. You choose and let us know which ones you want right away. You can contact us via-email: maryrosscontact@gmail.com.
I kinda just stumbled onto this page, prepping from my upcoming activity day activity and I must say, wow. I love this. Thanks.
You will not be able to download the entire activity from this website. The activities for CTR-B lessons (in this case lesson 16) are only found in the book or CD-ROM. However, for this activity there is a correction for which you can download the corrected page (the size was too large in the CD-ROM); we are asking you to download it here. CORRECTION ON IMAGE FOR THIS ACTIVITY – Note: If printing the following image for this lesson and Lessons 16 and 17 from the CD-ROM you will need to download the right size here. The image for the page with: Laban, Zngel, Zoram, and Brass Plates is too large in the CD-ROM. (It is the right size in the book.) Sorry for this inconvenience. TO DOWNLOAD AND PRINT IMAGE YOU WILL NEED TO GO TO THIS PAGE ON THE WEBSITE – SEE WHERE IT SAYS “CLICK HERE” TO FIND THE IMAGE DESCRIBED.
This is the link (see below) to the activity where you can download it.
I guess I don’t know where you were looking where you couldn’t download it.
Is this what you are looking for?
You will need to purchase at least $2.50 so you will need to order more items to make the sale/download go through.
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LINK to the activity:
https://gospelgrabbag.com/2012/12/29/7468/
I am now rebuilding my stash of ideas and activities but lack the time to color the products like I used to do. Seeing color versions is amazing.
Within seconds after transaction is complete it goes to your e-mail for the pdf files. You can check the HOME page for details.
The small scripture cards are approximately 5″ x 6″. You will print four on a sheet of paper.
A couple of years ago the Church forgot to put the scriptures in the Sharing Time outline. The Sunday Savers Sharing Fun book and CD-ROM went to press without them. This is when we had to make them available for download here on this website. We had such a good response that we will continue to place them here and not in the book/CD-ROM. The good thing is, there is now more room in the book and CD-ROM to give you more Sharing Time activities.
We will try to get all of them done for you as soon as we can. Check back in a few months. Or, call us 801-694-6302
Once you purchase downloads, $2.50 or more you will sign in then. Then you can find your account there showing your downloads.On the right side you will see GGB Shopping Cart and below that you can click on the OPEN BAG sign. From there you will see Your Account to where you can view purchases. Note, if you don’t download them within 72 hours they can’t be downloaded. You can however let us know and we can regenerate them for you. Email us at maryrosscontact@gmail.com.
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hi! I don’t use credit cards. Is there any other way to pay? Thank you!!
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Is there a way to get only the colored visuals? Wasting a lot of ink and paper. Now I have a potential problem of ink running out in the middle of printing all visuals I downloaded. Will I have to repurchase in order to download?
It is possible to print only the colored pages. Your print cue allows you to print only the pages desired, e.g., indicate 2-3 in the PAGE RANGE print cue to print pages 2 – 3 only only.
We don’t have song visuals for a song “Gethsemane” – what song did you mean?
I downloaded the As A Child of God song visuals. There are no words… Do we put them in ourselves? I thought they had the word cues along with the pictures. How do you suggest using these? Thanks
We don’t give you the words because of copyright. You will need to add the words. This is explained in the SINGING FUN INTRODUCTION page. Sorry for the inconvenience. We don’t have permission to use the words for downloads. One more advantage of not having words is they can be added in different languages.
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If you want all of the activities for all of the sharing time weeks you will need to go to BOTH SOURCES TO OBTAIN THEM ALL: (1) Purchase the book or CD-ROM from Deseretbook.com that contains half of the activities you will need, and (2) Purchase the remaining activities that are only available as DOWNLOADS at GospelGrabBag.com.
I love all your visuals. Through the years I’ve purchased the CDs and booklets. But am so excited now to discover immediate downloads through payment on this website. Very happy Primary worker now.
Thank you so much for sharing your work and talents and make life easier preparing for activity days I finally downloading my first purchase my helper is downloading the stuff for me thank you for the great support
Thank you for your efforts! I love your ideas! This program was easy to use.
Hello, I just purchased a song kit and I am wondering If I can get the Large picture of the world with Spanish words on that. “My heavenly Father Loves me” in Spanish instead. I did not see anywhere to comment that or click on if I need something in another language.
would like to purchase Joseph Smith first vision. Is this in Black and White also? And how many pages is it?
Well done ladies for having material for the new Primary curriculum. I am excited to see it.
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