Feb 9-15, Free LDS primary lesson helps, Come Follow Me
- redwallace
- Jan 30
- 3 min read
Updated: Feb 3
Ideas for Teaching Children
Following the Lord’s prophet will bless me and my family.
Most children love the story of Noah and the ark. Consider giving your children opportunities to share what they know about it. To help them, you could use the pictures in this outline, “Noah and His Family” in Old Testament Stories (22–25), and the third verse of “Follow the Prophet” (Children’s Songbook, 110–11). Your children might enjoy acting out parts of the story—for example, by pretending to use a tool to build the ark or walking like animals entering the ark.
I thought it would be fun for the children to have their own little carrying tote to take home and share the story of Noah's Ark with their family.
Or you can print one, and everyone can tell the story together as a class.
For a bigger ark, click below:
Here are the animals you and the children can put in the ark as you tell the story together.
Here is a sample of the Puzzle sequence in my store this week:
As you talk about Noah together, help your children see how blessed we are to have a prophet of God today. Help your children search Moses 8:16–24 to find things Noah taught that the Lord’s prophets still teach today. How are we blessed when we obey these teachings?
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Here is a sample of the Puzzle sequence in my store this week:
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God will keep His promises to me.
Your children might enjoy drawing or coloring a rainbow while you talk about what it represents (see Joseph Smith Translation, Genesis 9:21–25 [in the Bible appendix]). What did God want Noah and his family to think of whenever they saw a rainbow?
You could also show your children something you have that reminds you of something important in your life, such as a wedding ring, a picture, or a journal. Let your children share their own examples. This could lead to a conversation about things that help us remember our covenants, such as the sacrament, which helps us remember our baptismal covenant to follow Jesus Christ (see Doctrine and Covenants 20:75–79).
Following Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven.
It could be fun to build a tower out of blocks or other objects with your children. As you do so, explain that the people of Babel thought they could get to heaven by building a tall tower. You could then look together at a picture of the Savior and ask your children how He helps us get to heaven. Then you could talk with each other about things you can do to follow the Savior.
Great interactive way to teach this story. The Primary manual nailed it.
In addition to reading the story of the tower of Babel in Genesis 11:1–9, you and your children could read Helaman 6:28. According to this verse, why did the people of Babel build the tower? Why was building this tower the wrong way to reach heaven? Then you could search 2 Nephi 31:20–21 and Helaman 3:28 to find the right way to reach heaven. What advice would we give to the people of Babel?
From 4 years ago. I am leaving it here from families, enjoy!
Share something that the current prophet has recently taught. Ask the children to write something the prophet has taught on strips of paper, and help them arrange the strips into the shape of an ark. How are these teachings like the ark that Noah built?
Here is an ark puzzle they can write things on the back of before they put it together.
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