I decided to talk about Emergency Preparedness stuff (mostly food storage) on my family blog this month, and thought maybe I should have a lesson on it for the kids too.
I pretty much followed this lesson exactly.
Our practice phone conversations with the "911 operator" (me) were hilarious, yet have convinced me that maybe just telling them to go to a neighbor's is the way to go...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Monday, February 18, 2013
FHE: Plan of Salvation, Revisited
I decided this year that the 3rd Monday of the month would be a lesson on the same things we have been talking about in Young Women's that month. This month's topic is "The Plan of Salvation".
I remembered our lesson being very successful last year, so I'm just doing the same thing again with minor changes. My son loves to color now, so he and I (and my 2-year old daughter "helped") colored the pages after lunch as preparation. Also, this time, I made the destinations be a progression to getting ready for bed as well. We started in the family room with Pre-existence, went to the kitchen for treats for Earth (our bodies allow us to experience physical things like eating). Then we went to the bottom of the stairs to talk about Spirit Prison/Paradise. At the top of the stairs was judgement and they changed into their pajamas (they got new bodies like the resurrection). Then I had 3 different rooms represent the 3 degrees of glory. We brushed teeth in the "Telestial Kingdom" which was lit only with a nightlight. Then we went into the "Terrestrial Kingdom", my son's room, which was lit with a small lamp, and read our scriptures. Then we finally went to the "Celestial Kingdom", my daughter's room, which was fully lit and the sun was coming in through the window. There we had a closing song, and read several stories for bed.
They both really liked it- probably the first FHE I can remember my 2-year-old daughter wanting more (she asked if we could go to the next picture a few times before she realized we were done.) Travelling around the house is a big hit :)
I remembered our lesson being very successful last year, so I'm just doing the same thing again with minor changes. My son loves to color now, so he and I (and my 2-year old daughter "helped") colored the pages after lunch as preparation. Also, this time, I made the destinations be a progression to getting ready for bed as well. We started in the family room with Pre-existence, went to the kitchen for treats for Earth (our bodies allow us to experience physical things like eating). Then we went to the bottom of the stairs to talk about Spirit Prison/Paradise. At the top of the stairs was judgement and they changed into their pajamas (they got new bodies like the resurrection). Then I had 3 different rooms represent the 3 degrees of glory. We brushed teeth in the "Telestial Kingdom" which was lit only with a nightlight. Then we went into the "Terrestrial Kingdom", my son's room, which was lit with a small lamp, and read our scriptures. Then we finally went to the "Celestial Kingdom", my daughter's room, which was fully lit and the sun was coming in through the window. There we had a closing song, and read several stories for bed.
They both really liked it- probably the first FHE I can remember my 2-year-old daughter wanting more (she asked if we could go to the next picture a few times before she realized we were done.) Travelling around the house is a big hit :)
Monday, February 11, 2013
FHE: Love At Home
Because of Valentine's this week, we obviously had to talk about love :)
I talked about how I want our home to be a place where we all feel love. We talked about how we can show love for each other (kindness, following the rules, not hurting, saying sorry) and things we should avoid so that everyone feels safe and loved at home (no yelling, no hitting, no unkind names)
Then we did the same activity from last year, but I was wiser and had all the hearts cut out and they had already written on them: "I love daddy because..." etc. We just all brainstormed and wrote a list of things for each person on one heart, rather than listing one on a bunch of hearts, for ease. Then we hung them (and some blank hearts) on our wall and had red velvet cupcakes.
I have a hard time getting my kids to calm down before the lesson starts.
Anyone have ideas?
I think I may start opening each lesson with 1 silly song and 1 reverent song and see how that goes over.
I talked about how I want our home to be a place where we all feel love. We talked about how we can show love for each other (kindness, following the rules, not hurting, saying sorry) and things we should avoid so that everyone feels safe and loved at home (no yelling, no hitting, no unkind names)
Then we did the same activity from last year, but I was wiser and had all the hearts cut out and they had already written on them: "I love daddy because..." etc. We just all brainstormed and wrote a list of things for each person on one heart, rather than listing one on a bunch of hearts, for ease. Then we hung them (and some blank hearts) on our wall and had red velvet cupcakes.
I have a hard time getting my kids to calm down before the lesson starts.
Anyone have ideas?
I think I may start opening each lesson with 1 silly song and 1 reverent song and see how that goes over.
Monday, February 4, 2013
FHE: Brigham Young
Now that I'm on year 2 for regular FHE, I'm starting to look for ways to help me with ideas for FHE topics. This year, The Friend magazine has "A Portrait of a Prophet" on the inside back cover every month, and I decided to let that be our topic every 1st Monday of the month. January was Joseph Smith, who we recently talked about in December, near his birthday, so we didn't do it last month, but this month is Brigham Young.
There are a lot of FHE lessons on Brigham Young out there. I printed out a coloring page from this one. They also have a link to a fun butter-churning activity, but I think my kids are still too young for that. I might also save it for a pioneer FHE lesson. I'm so doing this one when my kids are older. I like this one as well. As written, it's best for older kids, but could be adapted for younger ones.
Being in Utah, I think it would be fun to talk about Brigham Young at Ensign Peak in Salt Lake, but that will be when my kids are at least old enough to hike it. (it's pretty easy. Maybe everyone is at least 4?) We could also take a tour of the Lion House in downtown Salt Lake City.
Anyway, what I actually did was just read some of the facts about Brigham Young from this Deseret Book lesson while my kids colored this. We made sure to mention that the university where my husband works is named after Brigham Young and that we probably wouldn't even live in Utah if it weren't for him guiding the saints here.
There are a lot of FHE lessons on Brigham Young out there. I printed out a coloring page from this one. They also have a link to a fun butter-churning activity, but I think my kids are still too young for that. I might also save it for a pioneer FHE lesson. I'm so doing this one when my kids are older. I like this one as well. As written, it's best for older kids, but could be adapted for younger ones.
Being in Utah, I think it would be fun to talk about Brigham Young at Ensign Peak in Salt Lake, but that will be when my kids are at least old enough to hike it. (it's pretty easy. Maybe everyone is at least 4?) We could also take a tour of the Lion House in downtown Salt Lake City.
Anyway, what I actually did was just read some of the facts about Brigham Young from this Deseret Book lesson while my kids colored this. We made sure to mention that the university where my husband works is named after Brigham Young and that we probably wouldn't even live in Utah if it weren't for him guiding the saints here.
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