Use For: CHURCH and HOME children and youth activities.
ACTIVITY DAYS Activity
Serving Others – Goal 1
Good Samaritan Service project,
invitation, and project
planner
Read and discuss the parable of the good Samaritan (see Luke 10:30–37).
Plan and complete a service project that helps a family member or neighbor. After completing the project, discuss how it helped your faith grow stronger. Good Samaritan (Secret Service Project)
Theme: Samaritan Service – Service Helps My Faith Grow Stronger
INVITATION
Invite Activity Days youth to this activity using invitation.
Other Uses For This Same Invitation: Use to invite youth to any mysterious Activity Days activity where clues are used and a mystery is to be solved – it could be to spotlight youth, telling something about each to guess-and-tell. With the hearts on the pocket (of invitation), the leader could have heart-shaped clues to pull out of a trench coat when presenting.
ACTIVITY:
• Print invitations, color them, and give them out a week ahead or have them ready to give to youth at a current activity, inviting them to the next.
• Have youth who are more active take the invitation to those less active.
ASSIGN TREATS:
• See matching THOUGHT TREATS below each activity.
• Have girls share their favorite recipes with you and you could make them during Activity Days or have them make them ahead to share.
• With the Activity Days budget have girl help you plan treats ahead for the next activity – hopefully treats that go along with the goal or lesson theme.
. . . ACTIVITY DAYS PLANNER . . .
Serving Others Goal 1:
Read and discuss the parable of the good Samaritan (see Luke 10:30–37). Plan and complete a service project that helps a family member or neighbor. After completing the project, discuss how it helped your faith grow stronger.
Good Samaritan (Secret Service Project)
1. Read and discuss the parable of the good Samaritan (see Luke 10:30–37). Discussion: Talk about how the good Samaritan gave of his time, talent, and means to help someone in need.
2. Obtain and color the Good Samaritan Secret Service Project planner.
3. To plan your service project, answer the questions on the planner, e.g., “who,” “what,” etc. to plan your service project.
4. Assign certain girls certain tasks on the planner. Then complete service project in secret(showing anonymous service) if possible.
THOUGHT TREAT: (Service Is in Style Cookies). Have youth help cut out 4″ sugar cookies into fashion shapes (see ideas underlined below). Then bake, frost, and decorate.
Thoughts: As you eat cookies, talk about these Fashionable Ways to Serve:
• Top off your day with prayer and remember those that need special blessings.
• Skirt pride and selfishness and forget yourself and listen to others.
• Polish your talents and share with others what your fingers can do.
• Curl up in a chair with a child and read them a good book.
• Hats off to Mom for all she does; give her a day off household chores.
• Brush up your pearly whites and share your smile with the lonely.
• You can be fashionable without spending a dime and serve with a smile time after time (see 2 Corinthians 9:7).
• Get your socks to hop to it and serve by running an errand.
• Cinch up your belt for fast Sunday and prepare the after-fast meal ahead of time.
• Slip into a new habit and serve someone new each week.
• Roll up your sleeves and do an extra batch of dishes.
• Boot yourself out of bed and make your family a surprise breakfast.
MORE LESSON IDEAS (on the subject):
bullying.” —Elder Neil L. Andersen
“Reach out to those among us who are suffering and in need of being lifted.” —Elder Ronald A. Rasband
MORE LESSON IDEAS (on the subject):
WATCH VIDEO on giving someone a “Heart Attack” having girls place homemade hearts on doors and watching their expressions. Also video shows girls inviting other girls who are not coming to Activity Day activities. This is from the Church website. Click HERE or view below.
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YOUTH TESTIMONY SHARING: Ask youth to share their testimony on the lesson subjects below. Click on the QUESTION* next to “Come, Follow Me” Lesson to lead you into a discussion or the sharing of testimonies.
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