Cooperation
- Read and discuss Acts 4:32-37 and Exodus 35:20-29; 36:2-7.
- What is cooperation?
- Why is cooperation important in your family, school, and church?
- Role play a Bible story about cooperation.
- Sing a cooperation song.
- Play a cooperative game.
- Make a cooperative craft with your group.
Helps
- See also Nehemiah 4.
- Willingness to work together; give and take. Learning to cooperate is when a person thinks about and balances their own needs and wants with another person’s needs and wants. Some people think that cooperation means a child does what the adult wants. That is not the case. True cooperation is a give and take between people that ends up with something they both agree on. Cooperation is a skill that must be learned.
- Discuss how to improve your cooperation.
- Encourage cooperation while choosing the story.
- Such as “Cooperation” by King’s Heralds or “Cooperation Hop” by Sandi Patti.
- Such as “Lead Me” game, wheelbarrow race, puzzle, or human maze.
- Everyone participates in a group craft.
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