The Golden Rule

Sunday School Projects & Activities

• Teaching the Golden Rule - Different ideas for teaching the golden rule: creating Golden Rule commandments, a list of the top ten biblical followers of the Golden Rule, etc.

Fun & Games

• Break the Code - Golden Rule - Use the grid to decode the Golden Rule
• Coloring Page - Do Unto Others
• Coloring Page - Practicing Acts of Kindness
• Coloring Page - Shep and Lily Living the Golden Rule
• Coloring Page - The Golden Rule
• Find the Hidden Qualities - Golden Rule - A word search of qualities we need to live the Golden Rule
• The Golden Rule Caterpillar - Cut out the colored circles and put them in the correct order to write out the Golden Rule.
• Golden Rule Maze - Help Susie find her puppy
• Golden Rule Puzzle - Starting with the green arrow, draw a line connecting all the letters from the golden rule.
• Good Samaritan Maze - Help the Good Samaritan bring the man in need of help to the city
• Help Him Out - Guide the man through the maze to Jericho
• Higher Ground - Decide how you would respond to 3 different situations
• Living the Golden Rule - Use the code to reveal how each Bible character lived the Golden Rule.
• Muddled Facts! - Read Luke 10:30-37 and correct the mistakes in what the rescued man said to the inn keeper
• Order the Golden Rule - Cut out the words from the Golden Rule and put them in the right order.
• Practicing Acts of Kindness - Fill in the missing lines to complete the picture
• Right or Wrong? - Read the Good Samaritan and sort out what is right and wrong in the four sentences
• Shep - Finding the Lost Bible - Help Shep find his Bible in the maze
• Two Men Who Did Not Help (Good Samaritan) - Name the two men who saw the injured man but did not help
• Two Men Who Did Not Help (Good Samaritan) - The man helped by the Good Samaritan was traveling from which city

Read a Story

The Good Samaritan
Read John 10:1-41; Luke 10:1-37

• The Good Man (younger children)
• The Good Shepherd (older children/teens)
• Discussion Questions

The Golden Rule
Read Matthew 7:12 (to ;)

• Shep and Lily Discuss the Golden Rule (younger children)
• Discussion Questions

Listen to a Story

• The Golden Rule - (told by Kevin Utz)

Holy Land Tours

• Jericho to Jerusalem - Jesus is tempted in the wilderness, parable of the good Samaritan, the story of Jesus' birth, judges holding court at city gates, Abraham and Isaac sacrifice