Reading Faces
Children's sermon
Open My Eyes
More Children's Object Lessons
Object:
Smiling face stickers, enough to hand out.
Purpose: To help children learn how to tell what another person might be feeling.
Material: Smiling face stickers, enough to hand out.
Lesson: One of the most important things you can do is to learn to read faces. Let me show you what I mean. When you see a face like this, what does it mean? ... (Look happy.) And this? ... (Look sad.) And this? ...(Look tired.) The face of another person helps you to know how he or she is feeling and then you can respond to that message. If someone is sad and you are concerned about that person, you can try to make him feel better. Maybe your father and mother look tired at the end of a day and when you see their faces, you may decide it is not the time to ask them to come and play with you. Maybe you can even do something to help them with the housework so they won't be so tired. Reading faces helps us to consider how other people feel and then to respond accordingly. That is an important part of being a Christian.
Today I would like to share a smiling face sticker with you. You can use it to share happiness with someone else. I suggest you take this home and write a letter or draw a picture for a relative or your grandparents and send it to them with this sticker to make them happy. And remember to watch the other people in your home and watch your friends. Try to read
their faces and respond to what you see. (Be sure to give them a big smile as they leave.)
Possible Times To Use This Illustration In The Home:
• When a child looks bored and needs to be encouraged to do something. Make a game of it. Suggest that the child watch some people outside or on television and see how many people he or she can tell are sad or happy just by the way they look and act. Later ask your child to share with you what was seen.
• When a child does not pay enough attention to the feelings of others.
• When your child has received a smiling face sticker from someone.
Scriptural Background: ''When the days drew near for him to be received up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem'' (Luke 9:51).
Material: Smiling face stickers, enough to hand out.
Lesson: One of the most important things you can do is to learn to read faces. Let me show you what I mean. When you see a face like this, what does it mean? ... (Look happy.) And this? ... (Look sad.) And this? ...(Look tired.) The face of another person helps you to know how he or she is feeling and then you can respond to that message. If someone is sad and you are concerned about that person, you can try to make him feel better. Maybe your father and mother look tired at the end of a day and when you see their faces, you may decide it is not the time to ask them to come and play with you. Maybe you can even do something to help them with the housework so they won't be so tired. Reading faces helps us to consider how other people feel and then to respond accordingly. That is an important part of being a Christian.
Today I would like to share a smiling face sticker with you. You can use it to share happiness with someone else. I suggest you take this home and write a letter or draw a picture for a relative or your grandparents and send it to them with this sticker to make them happy. And remember to watch the other people in your home and watch your friends. Try to read
their faces and respond to what you see. (Be sure to give them a big smile as they leave.)
Possible Times To Use This Illustration In The Home:
• When a child looks bored and needs to be encouraged to do something. Make a game of it. Suggest that the child watch some people outside or on television and see how many people he or she can tell are sad or happy just by the way they look and act. Later ask your child to share with you what was seen.
• When a child does not pay enough attention to the feelings of others.
• When your child has received a smiling face sticker from someone.
Scriptural Background: ''When the days drew near for him to be received up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem'' (Luke 9:51).
