Activities around Choice & Accountability



 Choice & Accountability Candy Bar Wrappers
Gum Wrapper(s) from lds.about.com - (1), (2)
Choice & Accountability Clipart 
Choice & Accountability (black and white)
 Choice & Accountability (color)
 C & A Key

My testimony helps me choose the right (pdf file)



 Agency and Accountability (Credit Unknown)
Family Home Evening from Deseret Book on Choice and Accountability
 Making Good Choices: Stairways and Superheroes from FHETC.
 We Can Choose
 We started out with a treasure hunt with clues that were a little bit difficult. We let them fail and then get it right. The clues led to our snack. After they found the "treasure" we talked about how just like finding the clues had consequences (not finding the next clue or finding it), so does every decision we make have consequences, good or bad. When it is too hard we can ask someone (pray) and they will help us (Holy Ghost). If we make the wrong decision (sin) we can change it (repent) and we can start over (forgiveness).  Our children are 5,4,2,8 mo. This worked very well for us. It was a hit and the kids really remembered it.  (Idea by Linda Leary / ga04102007)



 A game of values
 Choice & Accountability Game - "Game of Light" : This game will teach Young Women about their choices relating to the standards found in For the Strength of Youth.
 Choose the Right Game (from Primary Manual 2)
 
Breath mints/gum: Keep your conscience clean and bright. (Holly Schwendiman)
 Candy Necklace: Ask them to think of ways to eat the necklace (all at once or one candy at a time). Now ask them, “How is the necklace like doing good or like making good choices?"  They may say that we can do one good thing all at once or we can do good things one at a time on different days.
"Chews" the right Gum Wrappers
 "Chews" the right Gum Wrappers (Valentine Style)
Choose your own fortune
 Compact mirror - "What you see is what you get, and what you do is what you are - choose carefully."  (Holly Schwendiman)

I alone am accountable for my choices
 Make Something of Yourself - use small container of playdough
 Making Tough Choices
 Mini Chocolate Candy Bar Wrappers from www.lds.about.com  (#1), (#2)
 "Now and Later" Candies with the following attached: "The choices you make now
will affect you later.
 Regrettio's : No virtue added! - Label to put around a can of spaghettios.
Restrictive Chains
Value Keys from Jenny Smith - (Faith, Divine Nature, Individual Worth, Knowledge, Choice & Accountability, Good Works, Integrity)
 Why settle for just a chip?
 Young Women Values Pencil Cards



 Choice & Accountability Lesson Helps
 Choice & Accountability Lesson Helps - ideas for music, audio/visuals, posters and more!

I am accountable for my choices, taken from the February 2000 Friend
 The Choice

Dare to choose the right (Primary Manual 2)
I can choose the right (Primary Manual 2)
I can make right choices (Primary Manual 2)



 Choose the Right (Hymn Book pg. 239)
Come Follow Me (Hymn Book pg. 116)
Do What is Right (Hymn Book pg. 237)
 Hymns that correlate with the value "Choice & Accountability"
 I Will Look Unto The Lord In Every Thought
 I'll Say No!
 I'm trying to be like Jesus (Children's Songbook pg. 78-79)
 Line Upon Line
 We Will Follow The Lord
 Whenever I Have To Choose



 Choosing the right is the only way to true happiness
 Make your own fortune



 Choose the right when the choice is placed before you.
 Cutting Corners (Object Lesson for Children)
 Object Lesson #1
 Speaking Negatively about others or Being Judgmental
 Spiritual Guidance by Michael Meldrum - great analogy of a GPS system being like the Holy Ghost and how the first four principles of the gospel are an essential part of your GPS system to work.  If we make the right choices our CTR unit will work properly.

The consequence stick that is also on one of John Bytheway CDs talks about a stick with choice printed at one end and consequence on the other.  He explains that once you pick up one end of the stick (choice end) you automatically pick up the other end (consequence end).  That would also be a great visual to demonstrate parts of this concept.
We are lifted up
We had two speakers who spoke on virtue for about 10 minutes each. Then the last speaker (YM President) asked the kids what it meant to "wax strong". He demonstrated by having someone come up and try and hold a string and have it stand up. Then he had a candle warmer with a jar of melted wax. Together he and the young man dipped the string in. Tested it a few times and still it wouldn't stand, but they kept at it and of course by the end it was coated enough that it would be able to stand on its own. He likened that to each choice we make making us a little bit stronger- it doesn't happen all at once. (YM President was John Powell / shared by Heather Beck / ga04182007)
 


 

CTR rings
 Choice & Accountability Sign
 Choice & Accountability Value Sheet



Goals on Choice & Accountability in Personal Progress Program
 Value Experiences and Value Projects on Choice & Accountability (Really good resource)



 A fine line
 God's Counting on You
 My Footprints Poem by Shel Eldredge
 Poem on Choices
 What is orange?



 Deciding to Decide by Spencer W. Kimball
 One Liners
 Private Choices by James E. Faust
 Quotes on Accountability from W.O.O.L.
 Quick Quotes



The Anti-Nephi-Lehi's choose to follow the Savior (Alma 23-24)
The Good Samaritan chooses to help (Luke 10:25-37)
The young man who chooses riches over follow the Savior and obtaining eternal life (Matthew 19:13-26)
Wise Man and Foolish Man (Matthew 7:24-27)
 



 Choices and Gospel Guideposts
 Choose the Right beanbag toss
 Choosing the Right
 My choices have consequences
 Sharing Time Idea on Choices
Tell the story of Noah (see Gen. 6:5–7:24). Let the children prepare a TV news program called “Choice and Consequence” based on the story. Assign announcers, a weatherman, reporters, and people to be interviewed before and after the rain begins to fall. Younger children might enjoy drawing a picture of Noah, the ark, the animals, and the storm. Have all the groups join together to present the broadcast. Talk to the children about the choices the people of Noah’s time made and the consequences of those choices. Suggest that the children share this activity with their families. (Idea taken from March 1997 Sharing Time Suggestion)
 


 

Does Evil exist??
 Don't snuggle with pumpkins  

Parable of the Popper
 Story shared by W. Eugene Hansen at a BYU Dev. on June 30, 1998

The Banana and Monkey Story by President Kimball
 The Little Boy & The Rattlesnake
 The Room
The Seven-Ups
 The Spider and the Fly
 Today I can choose
 Which wolf will win?

Your heart's desire



 “Decisions Determine Destiny,” Thomas S. Monson  -  New Era, Nov. 1979, 4
 Making the right decisions by L. Tom Perry
 "The Marvelous Gift of Choice", Ricks College Devotional, 01/30/2001 by Harold Brown
 "The Thoughts of Our Hearts or Why Do We Do What We Do?", 03/04/2003 by John C. Lewis

   Check your church library to see if they have any of these videos...

 Addiction vs. Freedom; 53277; 3:10 minute - Video Clip #21 
The Consequences of Our Choices (The Pump ; 8:30 min - Video Clip #6
 The Test; 5:14 minutes, Video Clip #10 
True Friends Help us Keep the Commandments; 3:23 minutes, Video Clip #1
 True to the Faith; VV276/53276; 8:45 mins - Video Clip #19



 With Agency comes Responsibility
 

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September 30, 2007

 

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