Monday, August 26, 2013

Sharing Time: Jesus Christ Taught me How to Serve Others

Hey all!


So I have sharing time this week and it's on how Jesus taught us to serve others. I really love the idea of showing them the pictures of Christ serving others and trying to act it out. To make it extra fun, you can bring some robes and scarfs in and they could dress up as the character. **Update** As mentioned by commenters below, please remember that children are not to dress up as Christ. This is why I love when people comment, we help each other out!!

One of the ideas I thought of immediately when I thought of this subject is the "secret service" activity I've seen float around Pinterest some. The whole idea is to give the kids some kind of "sign" and have them preform an act of service secretly and leave the little sign by the act of service they did. For example, you see your mom has a ton of dishes in the sink, secretly (we don't want to get caught!) do the dishes. After they are done, leave the sign by the sink.

Ideas on what they can do...
1. Clean the litter box
2. Take out the trash
3. Make a siblings bed
4. Weed the garden.
5. Clean up a siblings toys.

Now that they're mom, sibling, friend or whoever has the sign, they have to do a random act of service....secretly. It's fun to keep it going. You can give each child a couple of them so that if one person doesn't keep it going, someone else might. They can come back the next week and share their stories on how sneaky they were, and what they were able to do.

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to attach a full size document to this post. If anyone knows how to do this using blogger, I would SOOO appreciate a quick walk through. I've been using Photobucket in the past to create a link, but now they don't save it full size. Again, any help would be awesome! (to be honest, I've been so frustrated with this it's kind of zapped my desire to post :()So I didn't make a hand out, but I posted a link to a picture that is kind of what I'm talking about. If someone helps me out, I will totally make a handout for it!!

I like the idea of using a heart, writing "secret service" and putting underneath that something along the lines of "Now it's your turn to serve someone....secretly! Don't let it stop with you!" I think it's neat for the children to see how one good deed can multiply. 

http://ldsmobileapps.com/activities/secret-service,1/  Here is a picture of what I was envisioning, unfortunately I don't see a link to print out. It looks like they just used a crayon to write secret service on it.


If you're looking for an awesome FHE to do along this same idea, check out THIS blog post. I thought it was a neat idea!

15 comments:

  1. Thanks for the idea- I love the secrets acts of service. My Primary will love it!

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  2. I Love this idea. Thanks so much. A couple of the children in Primary are my nephews and they wanted to be spy's this summer. At the end of the lesson, I plan to speak quietly as if I have a great secret. Again thanks for the idea. Bonni

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  3. I was just coming to your site from Sugardoodle and happened to open up the page with a bit of shock as I saw a very inappropriate ad for "Wartune" for "Male Gamers only" with a picture of a lady without much on. Just thought I would pass that along.

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    1. I appreciate you letting me know. Unfortunately I don't have a ton of control over what ads are displayed, I can only simply not allow categories of ads. For example, I do not allow "adult themed ads." You would think not allowing this would prevent this from happening, but apparently the adversary has found a way around it. It looks like I need to block entertainment ads as well, since I certainly do not want inappropriate ads displayed on my blog. Again, thank you for letting me know. :)

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  4. Please remember that the children should not dress up as Christ. Read the handbook section 13.6.15 Portrayal of Deity for more information.
    I love the idea of secret service hearts. That sounds like a neat Sharing time! Thanks for the idea.

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    1. Thanks! I saw that after this was posted, and kept meaning to update, and never got a chance! Thanks so much! I don't want to lead anyone down a wrong path haha

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  5. Thanks for the ideas... I will use them in Primary this Sunday :}

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  6. I was just going to ditto the previous comment that the Church Handbook says children should not portray Christ when acting things out.
    Love the other ideas though, thanks!

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    1. Thanks for that. Perhaps a male adult teacher or missionary could stand in, or they could just act out modernized versions without Christ in them. Thanks again!

      -BBNO for some reason it's not letting me sign into my account.

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  7. I love this idea! I am using it in sharing time tomorrow - but it would be great to do ANY of the weeks this month! I made a SECRET SERVICE handout if anyone wants to use it. :) http://cdotlove.blogspot.com/2013/08/september-primary-sharing-time.html

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    1. I love those! I am going to post in the main area, if you don't mind! Do you use blogger? I can't figure out how to post my handouts anymore! I would love it if you would help me out. :)

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    2. So perfect! Thanks for posting!

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