USE FOR: COME FOLLOW ME, Primary and Home (family home evening), Activity Days, Sunday School, Bible Study
Little LESSON LIFESAVERS
Commandment Concentration match game
OBJECTIVE: Play the Commandment Concentration game to remind children how Heavenly Father helps them as they obey the commandments, bringing them blessings.
To Play: Place the cards facedown on the board or table. Play in teams or individually, having youth take turns turning two cards over to make a match. When a match is made, the player can tell how keeping that commandment brings a blessing. If no match, turn cards over in same position facedown. The team or player with the most matched cards wins.
Match Cards Are: Pray Daily, Serve a Mission, Love Others, Attend the Temple, Partake of the Sacrament, Pay Tithing, Read Scriptures, Obey the Word of Wisdom
TO MAKE Using cardstock, print or copy, color, and cut out the Commandment Concentration match cards (two sets) for each child.
THOUGHT TREAT: Commandment Chips. Let youth munch on potato chips as they play Commandment Concentration. The chips can remind them to “chip” in and help others, this way we are obeying a commandment to LOVE OTHERS.
SCRIPTURE CARDS: Help children Search and Ponder this scripture card by filling in the blanks. PRINT this 5 x 7 scripture card from the pdf included with the above activity. You can punch the two holes on the left and tie a ribbon to attach cards or use two metal rings to connect cards.
2 Nephi 3:7
“I, Nephi, said unto my father: I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them.”
DOWNLOAD 2 Nephi 3:7 scripture poster/card set (HERE or below)
LESSON IDEAS (for the above activity):
• *Present the Primary 4 – Book of Mormon Lesson 3 Obtaining the Brass Plates ⇒. Review enrichment activity #5 (as follow): Display a few pictures or objects (shown in the activity above) that remind us of things Heavenly Father has asked us to do. Discuss the commandments and their accompanying blessings.
Conclusion Testimony
Bear testimony that Heavenly Father will help us obey his commandments. You may want to share an experience when you exercised faith to keep a commandment, such as keeping the Sabbath day holy or being kind to others, and how you were blessed.
Give the children copies of the message “I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded” (1 Nephi 3:7) below* ⇓. Write the children’s names on their copies, and challenge them to make it their promise, also.
. *DOWNLOAD the 1 Nephi 3:7 Scripture Poster/Card set (HERE or below) ⇓
. DOWNLOAD the song visuals for “Nephi’s Courage” (HERE or below) ⇓
