Youth Curriculum, 5-17-26

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May Theme: Foundations of Spirit: Discovering the Divine Within
Week 3 Value: The Creative Process
Affirmation: I plant seeds of intention and watch them grow.

Curriculum Overview:

In Week 3, youth and teens explore the spiritual principle of the Creative Process—the understanding that creation begins within before it appears outwardly.

Building on previous lessons about Oneness and Spiritual Law, youth discover that their thoughts, intentions, beliefs, and attention help shape their experiences. Using the metaphor of planting and growing, they learn that just like seeds need nurturing, the ideas, goals, and dreams they hold also require care, patience, trust, and positive expectation.

Spiritual Lesson:

What we nurture with intention, belief, and attention begins to grow.

Youth explore the idea that creation is a process—not something instant. Just like a garden grows over time, the things we want to experience in life require patience, care, and trust.

Youth also reflect on how fear, doubt, or negative self-talk can interfere with growth, while encouragement, gratitude, and positive expectation help strengthen what they are creating.

Spiritual Practice: Seed Planting & Intention Growth Reflection

Youth participate in a seed-planting experience where they physically plant seeds while identifying an intention they would like to grow in their lives, such as confidence, friendship, peace, creativity, courage, or joy.

As they plant their seeds, they reflect on what helps something grow and what might prevent growth, and ask questions such as “What seed of intention do I want to grow? and How can I nurture what I want to create?”

Active Listening: Book / Music / Video

Younger Children (Ages 4–7)

• Book: The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle
  Teaches patience, growth, and the journey from seed to flourishing.
• Music: Garden Song by John Denver
  Encourages nurturing dreams and watching growth unfold.
• Video: From Seed to Flower Time-Lapse
  Shows the beauty and process of gradual growth in nature.

Children & Preteens (Ages 7–12)

• Book: What Do You Do With an Idea? by Kobi Yamada
  Explores how ideas grow when they are nurtured and believed in.
• Music: Try Everything by Shakira
  Encourages persistence, learning, and growth through experience.
• Video: The Science of Seeds & Plant Growth
  Demonstrates how seeds grow under the right conditions, reinforcing the metaphor of the creative process.

Teens (Ages 13–16)

• Reading: Excerpts from This Thing Called You by Ernest Holmes
  Focus on intentional living, belief, and conscious creation.
• Music: Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield
  Encourages possibility, self-authorship, and openness to becoming.
• Video: The Butterfly Effect & Ripple Impact
  Explores how small actions and choices can create large outcomes over time.

Creative Expression: Intention Garden

Youth create a personal or group “Intention Garden.”

Each participant designs a paper flower, seed packet, or plant shape representing something they want to grow in their lives. On the inside or roots, they write a goal or intention, supportive beliefs, or actions that help nurture growth. They will take turns slingshotting the wildflowers in the center grounds.

Connecting: Oneness Circle

Youth complete the sentence: “My seed of intention is…”

Group Response: “And I will help it grow.”