Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down Choices Game
Description of Lesson Activity: Help youth understand that the consequences of their actions are not always immediate but they can affect their lives. With this game, they can vote if the choices are right or wrong and tell the consequences of making each choice.
. PDF Includes:
1-page introduction
6 pages to print (3 in color, or 3 in black and white)

To Play:
1. Lay the game board on a flat surface.
2. Have youth take turns throwing a button or penny onto the game board.
3. When the button or penny lands on a choice, have all youth say or show thumbs up if the choice is right and thumbs down if the choice is wrong.
4. Have the one who tossed the button or penny tell a good or bad consequence for making that good or bad choice.
5. Keep playing until the time is up (e.g., 15 minutes).
6. Youth can take the game home to share with their family.

TO MAKE Print activity in color or black and white.

TESTIMONY SHARING: Ask youth to share their testimony on the following. Click on the following website objective to introduce the testimony sharing (that follows): How can I be in the world but not of the world? “Where once the standards of the Church and the standards of society were mostly compatible, now there is a wide chasm between us, and it’s growing ever wider” (Thomas S. Monson, “Priesthood Power,” Ensign or Liahona, May 2011, 66). The Lord wants us to remain true to His standards and not partake of the evils of the world. At the same time, He expects us to be a good influence on those around us.”