Monday, April 28, 2014

FHE: Faith is like a seed

We just talked about faith and how it's like a seed.  We had little flower pots & seeds I got at Target for $1.  (sorry so short.  I'm retroactively writing these down and I don't remember many details)

Monday, April 21, 2014

FHE: Child Led from Gospel Art Book

This week, The Frog asked about the picture on page 16- "Moses and the brass serpent".  Jay told the story behind it.

Monday, April 14, 2014

FHE: Holy Week

I've been meaning to try and make the week before Easter more focused on Christ and have wanted to start some kind of tradition.  This year I am going to read each of these on each day during dinner and talk about the questions and maybe do some of the activities that I think are particularly poignant with the kids.  For Monday, we grabbed dinner at some food trucks and then drove to the temple and talked about this from the parking lot.  Then we sang "I love to see the temple" on the drive home.

Monday, April 7, 2014

FHE: Bearing Each Other's Burdens

I basically copied this lesson making it more of a "be helpful" emphasis, rather than an atonement/sin emphasis.  I made sure to only write burdens my kids could relate to on the cans.  The kids all really wanted to try carrying the burdens upstairs by themselves.  My 3-year old and 5-year old were able to carry all 10 cans by themselves, though quite difficult for the 3-year old.  However, I think they still understood that it's easier if we all help out.

It was fun and a great analogy.  We'll see if I can bring it up during the week to really get it to stick.  I could see doing this again with older kids and making it more about the burden of sin (which I didn't focus on, since young kids can't really sin...)