I recently decided that we should abandon reading out of The Book of Mormon with the kids, and go back to the illustrated version, because it just seemed like they weren't getting very much out of it, and my 2-year old might actually understand better with the pictures. (my 4-year old did, perhaps glean nuggets but...) So, even though we had made it to 2 Ne in the other, we started over in Book of Mormon Stories.
There is a lot of mention of plates in the first part because it starts off telling where The Book of Mormon comes from and then the second story is about Nephi and his brothers going back to Jerusalem to get the brass plates from Laban. I thought it might be fun to try and make those feel more real and talk about what they are and why records would need to be kept on metal, instead of paper.
All I did was fold a piece of aluminum foil in half twice and give a "sheet" to everyone with a toothpick to "write" with. While we talked about why the records were kept on metal, we all "carved" pictures and words into our "plate".
I also showed them some pictures from the Gospel Art Book where plates are shown, and a brief 2-sentence summary of what is going on in each pictures. Pictures #73, #86, and #92. (making sure to mention that Joseph did not actually translate The Book of Mormon as depicted in that last picture).
I was going to make a book out of them at the end, but my 2-year old decided to rip hers to bits after drawing on it. We also talked a bit about how the bible was kept (Monks spent their life copying them by hand to preserve them) and I was surprised that my 4-year old knew about illuminated bibles. (or that they had pictures in them)
I thought it went pretty well :)
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