Character Training - Be Truthful with free printable

This week's lesson from Telling God's Story was Be Truthful. Since truthfulness is a great character virtue, I decided to study it all week. Truthfulness was not on our list of virtues from the Virtue Training Bible. I created a few printable for our Bible notebook that I will share with you (link below). Here are a few of the activities we worked on this week.

We started our lesson as always by reading the text and the Bible while J colored her sheet.

Then I told her a story about the lie monster. I found this story from MM Printables (link below). It is about a lie monster that follows a kid around and keeps getting bigger with every lie!

We talked about how lies continue to bind us and trap us. I used yarn as an example. First, with a lie, I tied it once and she could break free by telling the truth. Then, if she didn't tell the truth, the yarn kept wrapping around her hands and it made it harder for her to break free. This idea came from A Year of the FHE (link below).

J worked on adding her truthful pages to her character notebook. I have her look up the definition of each characteristic in her dictionary. She writes the definition under the header in her notebook. Then she adds the Ways I can be Truthful note booking header adding her own ideas on how to be truthful.

Here is her finished truthful note book page, complete with side tab. I am really liking the way this notebook is turning out.

We added truthful to our character ring. She decorates/colors each one. On the back of each character ring page, there is a bible verse to practice each week.

Her finished character ring page all decorated. I love that smile.

We talked about how lies can trap us in a web this week. So, we made a spider web to remind us to tell the truth and not get trapped in a web.

We made our spider webs using popsicle sticks and rainbow yarn. We also added a spider ring that I found in our craft stash.  This idea was from Crafts Unleashed (link below).

Our last craft idea came from my free Truthful printable. It was to make a banner of the I will statements for the lesson.

I printed the banner on card stock and she drew a picture for each I will statement. We hung this over our window to remind us about being truthful and living in the light. We had an awesome time learning about being truthful.

If you think these printable will be helpful, lease feel free to download. I would love to hear if you are using them. If you have any questions or problems, please let me know. Hope you have an awesome week!

Download Be Truthful Notebook printable HERE.

Links

MM Printables - has a free printable lie monster. The story for the lie monster is also included. I would personally change the name since my son is named Kaleb but I like the idea of the lie monster growing with each lie.

Confessions of a Homeschooler - has a free printable bible study on honesty.

Meaningful Mama - has a few posts about teaching kids about honesty.

Character First Education - has some free printables about honesty as well as a few videos.

A Year of the FHE - has a great story visual for lying using string.

Crafts Unleashed - has the popsicle stick web craft to remind us not to get caught in the web of lies!