POST-AND-PRESENT ACTIVITY. FOLLOWING JESUS: HELPING HANDS SERVICE CONNECTION. Help children/youth learn how Jesus is the perfect example for them to follow. Here they will learn ways to show service as they follow the “Helping Hands” (examples of Jesus).
Great for COME FOLLOW ME, Primary and Family Home Evening, Sunday School, Bible Study, Daily Scripture Devotionals
POST & PRESENT Activity
Follow Jesus – Helping Hands Connection
YOUTH can teach this lesson to children.
Objective: Help children/youth learn how Jesus is the perfect example for them to follow. Here they will learn ways to show service as they follow the “Helping Hands” examples of Jesus.
TO MAKE VISUALS:
1. Print, color (or print in color), and cut out the images of the banner, hands, and wordstrips. Make two copies of each set of hands: Jesus’ hands (shown left) and children’s/youth’s hands (shown right).
2. Glue the corresponding Jesus and child/youth word strips on the backs of hands.
3. Laminate images and an entire poster separately.
4. Mount the sign on a poster paper to present. Post images on the poster as shown for children/youth to match.
ACTIVITY:
1. Ask children/youth, “Who has set a good example for you in your life on how to choose the right?” Write names on the board, including the name of Jesus Christ. Tell them Jesus has set a perfect example for us because He is perfect. He does everything Heavenly Father commands Him to do. Jesus wants us to love and serve others. In Acts 10:38, we read Peter’s words, Jesus’s Apostle, saying that Jesus went about “doing good.”
2. Ask children/youth, “What are we doing that’s good?” Then say, “Let’s play this Helping Hands Connection game to see if we are doing as good as Jesus did. To make the Helping Hands Connection, let’s take turns turning over a hand of Jesus and placing it on the left and placing our Helping Hand on the right to see if we can make a match or a connection.” The actions of Jesus need to be similar to your actions.
When matches are made, place the matches in the center (as shown).
Match A with A and B with B, etc.
EXAMPLES:
A – Jesus touched the blind man’s eyes to help him see. – Matt. 15:30
MATCHES WITH
A – Jimmy helped the little old lady next door find her glasses.
THOUGHT TREAT: Helping Hand Cookies. Cut out hand-shaped cookies using sugar cookie dough. Bake. Add a bit of the color orange or pink (to white frosting) to make a flesh color. Girls love to paint fingernails with pink (colored frosting). Talk about how our hands do so many things to serve.
Source ST.2014.1b
MORE LESSON IDEAS
See our YOUTH CAN TEACH – FAMILY FUN SERVICE #30 (shown below*)
https://gospelgrabbag.com/2025/04/16/family-servic…
YOUTH CAN TEACH
So, please let them teach as it helps them learn the gospel and grow their testimony as they share it.
Use the BRIGHT IDEAS Lesson Planner (included) to plan your lesson
*HOW HAS JESUS TAUGHT US TO SERVE?
YOUTH CAN TEACH that Jesus Christ was our perfect example of how to serve. Here you can match similar actions as you guess the HELPING HANDS. Just say, “I will serve each day in a Christ-like way.”
ACTIVITY:
Ask, “Who has set a good example for you (in choosing the right)?”
Write names on the board, including the name of Jesus Christ. Tell them Jesus is our perfect example. He does everything Heavenly Father commands Him to do.
Jesus wants us to love and serve others. In Acts 10:38, we read Peter’s words, Jesus’s Apostle, saying that Jesus went about “doing good.”
Ask, “What are we doing that’s good?” Then say, “Let’s play this Helping Hands Connection Service Connection match game to see if we are doing as good as Jesus did.”
