Free, Come Follow Me, Sept 1-7, Primary lesson helps
- redwallace
- 10 hours ago
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The temple is the house of the Lord.
For some background on sections 95 and 97, you could share with your children “The Kirtland Temple” in Doctrine and Covenants Stories for Young Readers (Gospel Library; see also Saints, 1:210). Your children might enjoy pretending they are helping to build the Kirtland Temple (cutting wood, hammering nails, painting walls, and so on). You could also show them a picture of the Kirtland Temple, like those in this outline, while you read Doctrine and Covenants 95:8 to teach your children why the Lord wants us to build temples.
Temple puzzle under-sheet. Or for older students, you can have two puzzles.
Some of my favorite Sunbeam lessons include building temples with the students and engaging in conversations with them, asking questions about their knowledge of the temple, and teaching them about the blessings of the temple.
I love this week's printable in the primary manual, but I think it would hold up better if printed on cardstock. I'm putting it here so you can easily do that.
(Print on Cardstock)
I have a giant floor puzzle of the Kirkland temple in my store. Also recommend printing that on Cardstock.
This is available in Black and White
You can add a pack of gum, too.
After reading together Doctrine and Covenants 97:15–16, you and your children could share with each other why the temple is special to you. You could also sing together a song to help your children feel reverence for the Lord’s house, such as “I Love to See the Temple” (Children’s Songbook, 95). Why is the temple sacred?
Click on this image to be taken to the page to print this interactive song.
For older students, this game covers the entire lesson:
Zion is “the pure in heart.”
To help your children understand what the word pure could mean in Doctrine and Covenants 97:21, you could look at a glass of clean water together and add something to the water that makes it impure (such as dirt or pepper). Why is it important for water to be pure? Then your children could read verse 21 and put their finger on the word pure. What does it mean for our hearts to be pure? Verses 1–2 and 8–9 could provide some ideas. How does the Savior help make our hearts pure?
An additional idea:
The Lord blesses people who keep covenants with Him.
Do your children know what covenants we make with the Lord when we are baptized or in the temple? Consider reviewing those covenants with them by reading Mosiah 18:9–10, 13 or General Handbook, 27.2. Share with each other how you are striving to “observe [your] covenants by sacrifice” (Doctrine and Covenants 97:8).
The 5th Sunday lesson a bunch of pintables that help you review covenants, here is a picture of one. You can click on this image to be taken to the 5th Sunday lesson.
You could invite your children to draw pictures of what Doctrine and Covenants 97:9 describes. As they share their pictures, talk about how the Lord has blessed you for keeping your covenants. How are those blessings like being a “fruitful tree which is planted … by a pure stream”?
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