Ages: 7-12

Lesson Objective:

This lesson allows children the opportunity to identify their values in life.

Group Meeting:

Gather your group to your meeting area and have them take a seat.

1. Open with the question, “What does it mean to have values? If I ‘value’ something, what would that mean?”
2. Explain that having values is incredibly important! A value is something you would consider to matter the most to you in life. 
3. Using butcher paper or a whiteboard, make a bubble map and write out a few examples of what could be considered a value.
   1. Ex: Family, learning, helping others, sportsmanship.
4. Have the group come up and write out values that they can think of. 
5. Afterward, look at the completed bubble map and consider everything written out.
   1. Tell the group that what one person values can look completely different than another person- and that is completely okay! Values are what make us who we are, so values can be just as unique as we are as individuals.

Summary of Tasks/Activity:

My Heartstrings 

•  Pass out paper plates to every child in the group.
• Fold the paper plates in half, and trace out half of a heart shape.
• Cut out a heart shape using scissors on the paper plate.

• Have the children either write or draw out on their heart shape at least three of their values.
• Hole punch some of the edges of the heart shape.
• Then, using strips of string, have the children loop the string through the holes and around the heart.

Materials/Equipment:

• Butcher paper or whiteboard
• Markers or dry erase markers
• Paper Plates 
• Scissors 
• Hole puncher
• String
• Colored pencils

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