FHE: Death

My grandmother died recently and so my whole family attended her funeral last week.  I thought this might be a fitting opportunity to talk about death with my children.

I made a paper-bag puppet that kind of looked like "gi-gi" (as we call her) and I made the analogy of my hand being her spirit and the bag being her body which gets left on Earth.  I thought about making a sock puppet for my hand to be the spirit, but I didn't go that far.

We talked a bit about the pre-existence- how we lived with Heavenly Father as spirits there, and then we got our body.  i.e. our spirits "moved into" our bodies and they dwell there now, on Earth.  We talked about how everyone dies and that means our spirit leaves our body to go be with Heavenly Father again.  We reminded them of Easter and Jesus' death and resurrection and mentioned that we will all be resurrected again one day when Christ comes again to the Earth.

My 2-year old really just wanted to try out the puppet, but I think it was good for my 4-year old.

FHE: Healthy Food and Exercise

This week I'm pretty much planning to use this lesson.  Everyone will get a present from Heavenly Father that they will open with a picture of them inside- their body.  We'll talk about healthy eating, (using these pictures) what different food groups do for our body, and why we need exercise to stay healthy.  We will probably just eat oranges for a treat since I bought a hug box of them recently and we need to eat them :)

update: For some reason, if you try to print the images in google docs, it tries to make you do it in portrait and shrink the images to fit.  If you go to file>download and then print from your computer, it should work.  It's fine the other way too, the images will just be slightly smaller.

FHE: What Is My Spirit?

Last week we just talked about how we existed before we came to Earth as spirits, where we lived with our Heavenly Father- the father of our spirits.  When we came to Earth we got bodies (from our "earthly parents") and when we die, our spirits will leave our bodies to be with Heavenly Father until the resurrection, where we get our bodies in their perfected forms.  Then we all had a puppet (ours happen to be lizards and turtles) and we had our hands be spirits and when our hands went inside the puppets they got bodies, and then they'd leave again when they died, but our hands could still talk to each other without the bodies :)