FHE: Follow the Prophet

Yikes!  We moved over the summer!!  We've been having FHE, but I haven't been documenting it!!  (We didn't have internet for about 6 weeks)  I'll try my best to do a bit of remembering but....

September 8th, we took some chocolate zucchini muffins to all our new neighbors to introduce ourselves.  So glad we did.  I admit was terrified, but it was really a great idea.

September 15th, we talked to the kids about "We reap what we sow" over dinner and we just happened to have had a plumber and our landlord there at the time and it ended up in a lengthy discussion between our landlord and us about Mormonism and what we believe.  It was really awesome!  (and I think the plumber was eavesdropping :D)

September 22nd, I was feeling overwhelmed about a gigantic pile of laundry that needed folding, and decided to teach the kids (6, 4, and almost 2) how to fold laundry and we played a game where we put clothes on from the basket in a silly way and ran them over to the piles and fold them.  It got kind of crazy and only a little bit actually got folded, but I think the kids had fun and we spent time together as a family, right?

Tomorrow, I'm planning to talk about "Follow the Prophet" as a precursor to conference this weekend.  We are going to make sure everyone knows who the prophet is, what a prophet is, and we are going to play a game where one person is blindfolded and someone else helps them with instructions to put a puzzle or a toy together or something.  Then we will play "Follow the Leader" or "The Prophet (Simon) Says"  and the leader will have a picture of the prophet.

update: we did the puzzle thing and it occurred to me after that it probably would have been more effective to have someone try to put the puzzle together by themselves blind-folded and then have someone help them after so they could see how much easier it is when you follow the instructions.

FHE: Bible Stories

Today was super crazy, and last week was spent sick, so I'm quite behind on my planning.  We just whipped out this lift-the-flap bible stories book we have and read through some of the stories and talked about what we can learn from them.  Then we played "hide the sunglasses".  The object that you hide can be anything. Peach decided what we would hide today.

The kids had so much fun with the activity last week they asked what it was today, and I think it is important that we do them every week.  I wish I was better at thinking about activities that are relevant to our lesson.

FHE: Child Led from Gospel Art Book

This month, The Frog picked the picture "with the volcano", the one on pg 20 "Elijah contends against the priests of Baal".  My husband told the story behind the picture and then we played Sardines.  They loved it!  (daddy hid last and nobody could find him...)

FHE: The Power of Prayer

I asked them: Is Prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?  We asked them about what that might mean, and then explained what it means.

They didn't know what a spare tire was, and so we told them, and how each of us has only ever used one a couple of times. The steering wheel must be used every time you want to go anywhere.  We should pray every day, rather than only in emergencies.

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)

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.

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.