Object: A book of matches or enough for all the children with the match heads removed.

Well, here we are at the last Sunday in February and it seems as if the month only started. This week was the birthday of a very famous man. Do you know who it was? (Wait for them to say George Washington) Does anyone know anything about George Washington? (See if you can get the story of the hatchet out of the children) Sometimes even the best people do things that are wrong. We wonder why people do things that they shouldn’t do. Why do they do wrong, even when they’re told ahead of time not to?

Don’t you think that George Washington knew it was wrong to chop down a tree? I have something here that I’d like to give you if you think that it’s all right. Do you know what this is? (Let them say matches) …