Nov 3-9, Free Come Follow Me, Primary lesson helps
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I can help care for my family.
To help your children learn to serve their family members, consider sharing the information about Brigham Young in “Chapter 50: The Saints in Nauvoo” (in Doctrine and Covenants Stories, 184, or the corresponding video in Gospel Library) or summarize Doctrine and Covenants 126 in your own words. You might emphasize the phrase “take especial care of your family” (verse 3) and talk with your children about what it means to take special care of our families.
You can print two and play a matching game. When a match is made, you can ask the students how we can best care for that family member.
For the very young, you can put all the family members in a bag and have the students pull one out and tell how they can care for that family member.
You can print this in Black and white if you don't like the coloring of these family members.
It may be fun for you and your children to look at family pictures (or draw pictures) as you talk together about ways we can help “care” for family members. You could also sing a song like “Home Can Be a Heaven on Earth” (Hymns, no. 298).
Here is a primary song that talks about helping our family members.
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Place the circles on the edge of the classroom near the walls. Then, encourage the students to stand in the center of the classroom, listen to the riddles, and choose which circle to put their foot on. Prep them that they can all share.
There are more pictures and samples of riddles in the listing pictures.
This weeks gift tag:
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All of God’s children need the chance to be baptized.
Invite your children to find out from Doctrine and Covenants 128:1 what subject occupied Joseph Smith’s mind. They could also search verse 17 to find out what subject he considered “the most glorious.” Let them share what they find and talk about why this subject is so exciting.
Additional idea: Display a picture of Jesus' baptism or use this coloring page, and ask students to reflect on the importance of baptism.
In addition to helping your children prepare for (and live) their own baptismal covenants, you can help them know how to help people who did not make these covenants during their lifetime. Consider telling your children about someone you know who died without being baptized. Then you could read together Doctrine and Covenants 128:5 and look at a picture of a temple baptismal font (like the one at the end of this outline). Tell your children how you feel about being baptized in temples on behalf of people who are dead so that everyone has the chance to make covenants with Heavenly Father.
Display this little boy going in the ground and coming back out again, what is that similar to? How does baptism help us come alive again?
In addition to helping your children prepare for (and live) their own baptismal covenants, you can help them know how to help people who did not make these covenants during their lifetime. Consider telling your children about someone you know who died without being baptized. Then you could read together Doctrine and Covenants 128:5 and look at a picture of a temple baptismal font (like the one at the end of this outline). Tell your children how you feel about being baptized in temples on behalf of people who are dead so that everyone has the chance to make covenants with Heavenly Father.
Heavenly Father wants me to learn about my family history.
It might be fun for you and your children to make a paper chain with names of parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and so on (see this week’s activity page). Then you could share with each other what you know about these ancestors. Read together Doctrine and Covenants 128:18 to find out what the “welding link” is that makes our family history “whole and complete.” You could also watch the video “Courage: I Think I Get It from Him” (Gospel Library).
Additional ideas: Ask the children to share something about one of their grandparents. Encourage the children to learn more about their grandparents and other ancestors.
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