Object: A card reading "Thinking of you."

Lesson: Shut-ins like to receive mail.

Some people are called shut-ins. They’re people who can’t walk very well, so they need to stay in their homes or nursing homes all the time. They can walk slowly from one room to another, but it’s hard for them to walk outside and get into a car to go somewhere away from home.

If you were a shut-in, what would you do at home all day and all night? (Let them answer.) You could sleep, eat, draw pictures, read books, look a…