Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 5:6-21, Proverbs 3:1-2, ". . ..
Concepts: Rules are important; they keep us safe. God's rules are important; they show us how to live a good and long life. But more importantly, they show us our great need for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.

AM I GOOD ENOUGH TO GO TO HEAVEN?

Go to this Ten Commandments Sunday School Lesson and find the answer. http://www.christiananswers.net/q-comfort/heaven-goodenough.html

Activities and Games for:

1. Rules of the Road - Hold up pictures of traffic signs and see if the children can identify them. Discuss how important it is to follow rules of the road and the consequences.

2. Set up roads on the floor with masking tape. Bring in small cars and trucks for the children to play with.

3.Put up road signs at intersections. Demonstrate how the traffic signs are used.

4. Practice obeying rules game - Make a big red card and a big green card. Instruct the children that when you hold up a green card they can take one step and if you hold up a red card they have to stay in one place. Play until the children end up at a designated line.

5. Play Simon Says.

6. Talk about cheating and how they don't like it when someone doesn't follow the rules.

7. Rules at home list - (for kindergarten or older children) Ask the children what some of the rules they have at home are and write them on the board. When you are finished discuss why they have each rule.

8. Talk about class rules and make a list - talk to the children about the importance of rules in the classroom so that everyone will have fun and stay safe. Let the children make suggestions and write them down as they suggest them. When you are all done, take out 3 to 5 of the most important rules and write them down on a big piece of paper or on the board. Have the children draw pictures to illustrate them or have them make their own book of rules.

9. Have the children make traffic signs - Cut out red, green, and yellow circles from construction paper and have glue them on a rectangle to make traffic signs. Use this verse the emphasize the meaning of the colors:

10. Take one piece each of red, green and yellow construction paper. Discuss briefly what a stoplight is, why we have one and how important it is to obey the stoplight so you don't have a wreck.

11.Have all the children stand up in a circle around the tables. They can march, skip, walk, whatever they want, until you hold up a red card, then they have to stop where they are. Green they can go again, yellow means slow, etc. Play this a few times, then sit back down to color in coloring sheets. Use only green, red and yellow crayons.

12. For an extra time filler or activity, find one of those activity rugs with roads and streets on them, I have seen them at Walmart before. Put on the floor, give the children toy cars and let them play. They will make up their own rules for intersections if they have enough time, it's a blast to watch. You could also bring in a racetrack set if you are really brave and supervise them racing each other.

13. At snack time you could serve stop sign shaped cookies or crackers

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CLIMB UP MOUNT SINAI

Players are reminded of how Moses was instructed by God to climb up Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments. Accompanied with a lesson and a craft.

http://www.sundayschoolnetwork.com/lesson_nogods.html

COLORING PAGES

Reinforce teaching by a fun activity. Use coloring pages to drive the point deep into their minds.

Ten Commandments Coloring Pages.

THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT?

A low-activity game whereby players are challenged to arrange the commandments into the order they consider to be the most important, (from greatest to least). Bible lesson included. http://www.sundayschoolnetwork.com/game_greatest.html

TEN COMMANDMENTS DICE GAME -

Players roll dice to win commandment cards. http://www.sundayschoolnetwork.com/game_10commands_dice.html

Ten Commandments Race Players race to fill in the correct answers on the tablets. A great memory builder!

http://www.sundayschoolnetwork.com/game_10commandments.html The law is fulfilled by love. Galatians 5:14
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Genesis 26:5
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

Exodus 20:6
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

Exodus 24:12
And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.

Deuteronomy 6:1-9

1. Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
2. That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
3. Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
4. Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
5. And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
6. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
7. And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
8. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
9. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.