Parable Activities, Games, Lesson Ideas & Printables for Kids
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To obtain eternal life, we must love God with all our heart and love our neighbor as ourselves (see Luke 10:25–37).
Additional Lessons: We should take care of the spiritually ill or wounded; We should be willing to sacrifice our time and money towards healing, kindness and service.
Activities Quick-Glance List
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The Good Samaritan Coloring Pages - puppet figures, color by number, story slider craft
Who Is My Neighbor Play Mat Folder Game - 5 different games on who our neighbors are and being kind
Good Samaritan Kindness Craft - kids write kind things they can do on each pitcher, just as Rebecca did.
Latter Day Samaritan: My Hands are Lord's Hands - Matt 25:40 Scripture Trace & Follow-Along Videos
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Let kids place the hearts on the play mat page to discover all the people who are our "neighbors."
Place a piece of candy on each heart. Then let a child draw a heart, read it, and place it on one of the hearts with candy, take the candy and eat it. Discuss. Give each child a turn and continue until all the hearts have been placed.
Anyone in need is our neighbor.
“We need to remember that though we make our friends, God has made our neighbors—everywhere. Love should have no boundary. … Christ said, ‘For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?’ (Matthew 5:46)”
Inactive Members: We can bind up their spiritual wounds by rendering needed service, pouring in the soothing oil of friendship and supplying the soul-healing balm of genuine brotherly and sisterly love (more in the Latter-Day Samaritan article HERE).
Fill out the LOVE OUR NEIGHBOR AS OURSELVES (older kids can fill out themselves and parents can ask younger kids and write-in for them).
WATCH THE WOULD YOU HELP AN ELDER AND LOST CHILD VIDEO (or other similar videos)-see videos below- and The Good Samaritan "My Hands are the Lords Hands" song video.
Would you be one that passes by or would you help? In what situations have you or do you just pass by? (i.e. see kids making fun of another kid, see kid alone and sad at recess, see kid who feel and skinned their knee who is hurt and crying, etc.)
Let kids make the Good Samaritan flipbook (gives seven different situations and prompt asks, "I can be a good Samaritan by..." Flip each situation tab up and have kids write/draw how they would respond in each situation.
And place band aids (ways to be a good Samaritan) on the play mat folder game pages.
"Have I Done Any Good?"- Hymn #223 or watch the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
"Love One Another"- Children's Songbook pg. 136
"Jesus Said Love Everyone"- Children's Songbook pg. 61
"I'll Walk with You"- Children's Songbook pg. 140
"We Are Different"- Children's Songbook pg. 263
"Kindness Begins with Me"- Children's Songbook pg. 145
"A Special Gift Is Kindness"- Children's Songbook pg. 145
NOTES
The Jews felt that they were better than the Samaritans. They disliked the Samaritans so much that when Jews traveled from Jerusalem to Galilee, they would take the longer way through the Jordan Valley rather than travel through Samaria. Samaritans were seen as outsiders.
The road between Jerusalem and Jericho was only about 17 miles long but was notoriously dangerous for travelers—even into the mid-19th century A.D. It twisted and turned through rocky, cave-filled terrain as it descended 3,300 feet. Bandits could find numerous hiding places in which to wait for travelers.
What reasons do you those that passed by might have given for not helping? (They may have said that their churchlike responsibilities were more important than helping; they might have been afraid that the robbers would come back; they might not have had enough money to get medical help for the man; etc.) Is there any reason that would have been an acceptable excuse to the Lord for not helping? What excuses do we make for not helping?
