FHE: Gratitude

I just repeated what we did last year, because the kids loved it so much.  They still loved it :)

FHE: Harold B. Lee

Kind of a lame one.  It was hard to find very much about Harold B. Lee, since he was only prophet for a whopping 18 months...  I basically read what was on the back inside cover of the November Friend, after singing through the "Latter-day Prophets" song and pointing to the pictures of each one in the Gospel Art Book.

Here are some links about him, if you want to try doing a better job...  Let me know how it goes. :)

FHE: Struggle is Good

I read this story to the kids and talked about it with them... Then I compared it to why they have to have chores and why they have to sometimes do hard things.

Jay thought it was kind of a harsh story for such younguns...  In retrospect, I'm not sure they really understood it.  I may do this again when they're older.

FHE: Lehi's Dream

We've been reading in the Book of Mormon all year (1 verse a day) and we just finished reading about Lehi's vision in 1 Nephi 8, and I thought it would be good to go over what we just read.

I got some free printables for the kids to color during the day here so I could cut them out and laminate them for that night, though we didn't get enough time to color all of them with a doctor appt in the afternoon, so I probably should have just printed out the colored versions.

I went over the story with them and taped up the corresponding pictures as they were mentioned.  Then after we went through and talked about what the symbols all meant by asking the kids what they thought first.  I was surprised by how much my 5-year-old was able to figure out!

After that, I had set up some yarn all around the back yard (and it was night time, so it was authentically dark, like the mist), ending at a tree we have by our front door that has Christmas lights in it, and I turned it on and put a plate of brownies next to it so we could have some of the "fruit" of the tree of life too.  They really loved that!  This was super fun :)