Behold Your Little Ones Lesson 5: Jesus Christ Showed Us How to Love Others
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To emphasize how Christ showed us to love in Behold Your Little Ones Lesson 5: Jesus Christ Showed Us How to Love Others, you’ll review three scripture stories. First, the story of how Christ fed the multitudes with loaves and fishes. Next, the story of Jesus healing a blind man. And lastly, Christ visiting the Nephites after His resurrection.
Teacher Study
Prepare yourself before you teach by reading the scripture stories in the manual. If you want to take it a step further, here are a few great resources.
Jesus Christ Taught Us to Love One Another- This is a basic overview that gives examples of how we follow Christ’s teaching today as a Church.
“Love- the Essence of the Gospel” by President Thomas S. Monson
“‘By This All Will Know That You Are My Disciples’” by Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Activity Ideas
Excluding ours, of course, these link back to the Church’s website.
Jesus Christ Loves Everyone- A booklet that you can print out, color, and put together that tells us how Jesus taught us to love one another. There is also this similar booklet.
Love At Home- Cute house that you could make beforehand or get a foam one from the craft stores to put together then do the activity.
What I Know- An action poem to do together.
Love Notes- Cute cards to give to one another.
Valentines- Rebus valentines- better for older kids but those that still can't read.
Family Love- A fun slider handout that shows ways we show love in our family. Could be used as part of the lesson or as a handout.
Love at Home- A puzzle to put together to see how we can show love at home.
I Love You This Much Card- A cute card to make and share.
I Love my Family- A hidden objects picture
I Love Everything About You- Bright Ideas poster
Hidden Picture- Valentine themed hidden picture
Kindness Begins with Me- Bright Idea poster
Sharing in the Nursery- Find the ones sharing and being kind to each other.
Jesus Feeds 5,000 People- Story to read together. You read the words, they read the picture clues.
Jesus Christ Blesses the Children- Story to read together again, this time about Jesus visiting the Nephites.
Our free printable activity pages includes cut-outs to attach on paper bags to make puppets that eat fish and bread. You can use them to tell the story of the loaves and fishes. Use one of the puppets to act out being the person who has the loaves and fishes that Jesus used for the miracle of feeding the 5,000. The other puppet can be one that eats the food. Cut a slit in the middle of the inside of the mouth to feed the puppet over and over again using the same cut out to show how there was more than enough for everyone.
The puppets can also help you discuss how e can do kind things for others and show love. Place fish and bread all over your room. Then invite your class to find one and feed your puppets. Encourage them to say one way they can show love to another (have some backup responses they can repeat if needed). Show how there is plenty of food to feed these puppets just like there are plenty of acts of kindness that we can do every day.
Coloring Pages
I Can Follow Jesus by Showing Love
Heavenly Father Wants Me to Love Everyone
Let Us Show Love for All of God’s Children
My Family and I Can Serve Others
Being Kind Is Doing and Saying Nice Things to Others
Jesus Christ Is the Perfect Example for Me
Jesus Visited the Americas (scroll to the bottom)
Jesus Visits the Nephites (there is also this similar coloring page)
Media
These are great to use as the children come in or as you wait for parents to pick them up. They are also great to supplement your lesson and use throughout the hour.
Music
Lullaby- A song to teach the children to sing to others. Great way to show love.
"I'll Walk With You"- Children's Songbook pg. 140
"I'm Trying to Be Like Jesus"- Children's Songbook pg. 78
"Jesus Said Love Everyone"- Children's Songbook pg. 61
"Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam"- Children's Songbook pg. 60
"Love is Spoken Here"- Children's Songbook pg. 190
"Love one Another"- Children's Songbook pg. 136
"Reverence is Love"- Children's Songbook pg. 31
"We are Different"- Children's Songbook pg. 263 (especially v. 3)
"Where Love Is"- Children's Songbook pg. 138
Video
The Coat (about 2 minutes)- Great video on showing love and kindness
Jesus Feeds 5,000 People (about 1 minute)- Illustrated scripture story. The Bible video version is about 3 minutes. There is also a newer illustrated video one that is about a minute as well.
Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind (about 8 minutes)- Bible video. Or use this 1 1/2 minute illustrated scripture story video.
Additional Resources
- Get some Valentines and play mailman giving Valentines to each other. You could even make some valentine boxes out of old Kleenex boxes decorated with stickers then play. Give everyone a few to start and let them have fun.
- Make tags or heart badges to give each child. When they do something loving, put a sticker on their badge. Act out some ways to show love at the beginning and give them stickers for that and keep going as the class goes on.
