FHE: Jesus Christ is Born

I had planned to reinact the story from Luke 2 using our Little People Nativity set, but I confess... we forgot about FHE :(

Next year!

FHE: Joseph Smith

Since Joseph Smith's birthday is December 23, we always like to talk about him right before Christmas.  My husband loves church history and particularly Joseph Smith and knows a lot about him.  We started off asking the kids to guess who his 3 or 4 stories were about.  I think the sacred grove story was a dead give-away.  Good thing it was last.

We had cupcakes for a treat, sang happy birthday and everyone got to blow out a candle on our own.  The kids always love blowing out candles :)

FHE: Prophets foretold of Christ

On the back of every "Friend" magazine, this year, they had little Book of Mormon story cut-outs.  My son was very excited by this and always had me cut them out, so I've been saving them.  I pulled out the pictures of Samuel the Lamanite, and talked a bit about him and the signs he said that would foretell of Jesus's birth.

The kids were quite rowdy and not really paying attention.  Not sure if it was because of them or me.  I probably should have had the kids hold the pictures or something.

FHE: Music

ok ok, we didn't really have FHE.  I was thinking of enrolling my 2 and 4-year-olds in a music class and the sample class we could go to was on Monday night.  :(  So we just let it be our FHE this once.