Honor Activities - Building Character in your Children

10 Activities about HONOR:

1. Make a Fruit of the Spirit Tree – cut out fruit shapes and label them with the fruits of the Spirit from Galatians 5:22-25. Use it to commend children for demonstrating each quality. Discuss how growing these qualities can help us to honor God and others.

2. Country of the Week – learn about other countries and cultures because they deserve our respect and courtesy as they are also made in God’s image.

3. Homemade Play dough – Make play dough and create something with it. Discuss with your children how God created us and how we are made in His image. Here is a play dough recipe:
¾ cup flour
½ cup salt
1 ½ teaspoon powdered alum
1 ½ teaspoon vegetable oil
½ cup boiling water
food coloring
Mix flour salt and alum in a bowl. Add oil and boiling water. Stir vigorously until well blended. Dough should not stick to sides of bowl and should be cool enough to handle. Add coloring and knead it into dough until blended. Makes about 1 cup. Dough will keep several months without refrigeration.

4. Make an “All About Me” book – How tall? How old? What are your child’s favorite things? Favorite foods? What are things you do together? What traditions do you have? You can do the writing and your child can do the illustrating.

5. Self Portrait - This can be a cover for their book. Framing a special artwork like a self portrait is very affirming to the child. It doesn’t have to be perfect as long as they are excited and proud of it.

6. Fingerprints – Have your children make pictures out of their fingerprints. Discuss how fingerprints are unique. What else makes each person unique?

7. Bible Memory Verse – Have your children memorize Exodus 20:12. This is the only one of the Ten Commandments that has a promise attached to it. What is the promise? Honoring parents must be really important if God made it one of the big 10. Ask your children why it must be so important. Explain to your children how they can honor you in specific ways. (Showing good manners, being respectful of parents and the family rules)

8. Read a Phone Book – Have your child read the names on one page of the phone book. Have them think how each name represents a real person. What is each one like? God knows! God knows everything about every person on every page of every phone book in every city in every country. And He knows all the unlisted, too! J

9. Hide and Seek – Play traditional hide and seek and ask your kids if they can hide form God. Then play Hide the Thimble (or some other small object). They will see how hard it is to find. Isn’t it great that God always knows where we are? We can’t hide from Him.

10. How “Honor” is Used - Have your children brainstorm all the ways the word “honor” is used. What does each mean? (Your honor, On my honor I will try to do my duty…, honorable mention, honor system, graduate with honors, you do the honors, to love, honor and obey…)