Love Ruhi BK 3 Grade 1 Lesson 3

Instructions:

After you have added all the salt, replace the egg to show how it is now supported with “love” and “held up” by the encouragement and acceptance of others.

Draw a face on one side of the egg with the permanent felt-tip marker. 

Carefully place the egg in the glass of water and observe that it sinks to the bottom. 

Explain that the egg represents someone who is not receiving love or acceptance from those around them.  Sinking to the bottom represents someone who is not loved.

Remove the egg from the water with the spoon, and set it aside. 

One tablespoon at a time, add salt to the water.  As you stir in each spoonful, explain that the salt represents different ways to make someone feel loved and accepted. 

Name an act of love with each spoonful of salt with examples that are relevant to the child’s life, such as offering lunch to a new child at school, bringing cookies to a new family in the neighborhood, helping someone who has fallen off her bike, sharing a special toy with a friend. 

Have the children come up with ideas that are acts of loving kindness. 

Bahíyyih and her brother Abdu’l-Bahá did everything they could to help their mother with the hard work of looking after the household. Although she was now only seven years old, Bahíyyih would stand for hours at the side of the well, pulling up heavy buckets of water with a thick rope, which hurt her fingers.

One day, a lady came to visit the family, and Bahíyyih made her welcome. Although her arms were not very strong, Bahíyyih carried a samovar upstairs to the room where the family and their guest were sitting. Then, when the water boiled, she made the tea and served it in tiny, crystal glasses.

Later, when the guest had left, Bahá’u’lláh smiled at His little daughter. He said that the lady had become Bahá’i because of Bahíyyih service at the samovar!