CHOICES Object Lesson

By mrhadmin | May 26, 2013

Props Needed: Two different kinds of breakfast cereal, soccer ball, football, and a baggie with two different Fisher Price Little People inside.

Preparation: Place the props in a large gift bag.

Lesson: (Select five children to take any item they choose from the box and place on the table. Each time, call the child’s name and say: “What CHOICE are you going to make?”)

Each of you have selected or picked something to place on the table. This is called making a choice. There are lots of choices we must make in life. Some choices are easy, such as which cereal we’re going to eat for breakfast. Some choices don’t make much difference, like whether we play soccer or football after school.

However, some choices are VERY, VERY, VERY important such as which friends we select. (Pull Little People from baggie.) Am I going to choose this friend or this one? So many choices in life! We want to make sure we pick the RIGHT friends and make the BEST choices.

What qualities should we look for in friends? (Loving, kind, listen to us, help solve problems, don’t hurt each other, care for each other, comfort each other, dependable.)

Why is it important to choose our friends wisely? (We can be influenced, good or bad, by our friends. We need to make wise decisions when choosing our friends and always pick those who do right things.)

What can happen if we pick wrong friends? (What they do wrong can rub off on us.) Demonstrate by quickly drawing a person with chalk and filling in the drawing. Ask one child to come and put his/her hand on the chalk person. What happens? (Chalk rubs off.) Ask another pupil to put his/her arm on the chalk person. What happens? (Again, chalk rubs off.)

How can wrong friends influence us? (Clothes we wear; words we speak; how we treat others)

What happens when we pick the right kinds of friends? (We become better.)

What other RIGHT choices should we make in life? (Allow children to share.)

Who can help us make the right choices? (Jesus)

Song: Choices by Mary Rice Hopkins from Mary Rice Hopkins & Puppets with a Heart DVD.

Gotta make the best choice today (hey hey)

Lots of choices in this life

I wanna do what is right

Oh yeah, oh yeah

I could pick this friend on my left

I could pick this friend on my right

But I wanna make sure who I pick

Is leading me straight to the light

Gotta make the best choice today (hey hey)

You gotta make the best choice today (hey hey)

Lots of choices in this life

I wanna do what is right

Oh yeah, oh yeah

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