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.

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...)