July 21-27, Come Follow Me, D&C 81-83, Free LDS Primary lesson helps.
- redwallace
- Jul 14
- 5 min read
Updated: Jul 24
I can pray to God “vocally and in [my] heart.”
As you read Doctrine and Covenants 81:3 with your children, help them think of different “public” and “private” places where they can pray. You might also listen to or sing with them a hymn about prayer, such as “Secret Prayer” (Hymns, no. 144). Share with each other something from the hymn that teaches an important truth about prayer. You could also talk about speaking reverently to Heavenly Father.
1. First, pass out the pictures and tell the students to listen to the song and see if they hear their picture.
2. Then sing or speak the song slowly.
3. When they hear their picture in the song, they can come up front and put it on the board. (Younger students might need you to describe their picture after you sing the line.)
4. After everyone has placed their picture, sing the song together, while you point to the pictures.
Here is another song that teaches the order of prayer.
Steps of LDS prayer, I pray in Faith, I begin by saying dear Heavenly Father, thank him for blessings. Free LDS primary lesson helps, building a ice cream sundae 
What things do you say when you pray, free LDS coloring pages To encourage your children to pray in their hearts, you could give them paper hearts and invite them to draw or write something they want to pray about to Heavenly Father. Testify that Heavenly Father knows what we are thinking and feeling and He can hear our prayers even if we don’t say them out loud. You might share with them an experience when you prayed in your heart and Heavenly Father heard you.
This is a sorting activity for older children, where there children can decide on if it is prayer they say in their hearts or vocally.
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I have a game in my store for younger children:
Great for movement.
Put the house, the school, play ground, and store on the four corners of the room.
Read the the clues one will say
“A place with carts and shelves galore,
Let’s take a trip to the great big _________!”
They all gather to the picture of the store.
Then read short story of Emily getting lost in the store (on a card in this same purchase.) There is a question asking the children if this would be a good place to say the prayer vocally or in her heart. (There is no wrong answer)
Then read another clue for a new place that the children can move to.
In the end, bear your testimony that God hears our prayers, whether they are in our hearts or vocally and where ever place we may be.
You can click on the image here or in the ribbons.
This week has some additional ides for prayer:
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This cuts a rectangle to show the first two letters of the candy bar. It make a great prayer chart.
This is a coloring book made for Alma 33:4-11, but it shows the different places one could pray. I marked it down to $2.50, the same price as a gift tag.
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The Lord wants me to help people in need.
With your children, draw pictures of hands and knees, and ask your children to find these body parts in Doctrine and Covenants 81:5. What is the Lord asking us to do in this verse? You might share with each other some ways that people have strengthened you when you felt “weak” or “feeble.”
I would teach this like this for older children:
Have them look up the scripture to figure it out. Or have them draw the feet and hands in the blanks. Then read it together.
For younger students have one or three children, stand up as your models. Attach these to either their hands feet or knees, as you read the scripture. Then read it a second time and tell them when you point to that picture, they say it instead of you.
What is the Lord asking us to do in this verse? You might share with each other some ways that people have strengthened you when you felt “weak” or “feeble.”
You could also use pictures or videos to tell simple stories of Jesus Christ serving others (see the pictures in this outline; Gospel Art Book, nos. 41, 42, 46, 47, 55; or one of the Bible Videos in Gospel Library). How can we follow the Savior’s example of helping others?
Make these little books and read them together as a class. They can then take their books home for a little coloring book. Tell the stories about Jesus when you get to the pictures or have the children tell about what they know about the picture.
Another song idea from 4 years ago.
Sing the fourth verse of “I Feel My Savior’s Love” (Children’s Songbook, 74–75) or another song about service. Tell about a time when someone helped you feel the Savior’s love by serving you.
I altered this song to fit the 4th verse, but I also have the original 1st verse available if you want to teach both.
One more for the very littles(:
The video “Pass It On” (ChurchofJesusChrist.org) could give your children ideas about how they serve others. You could also sing a song about service, such as “Have I Done Any Good?” (Hymns, no. 223). Consider helping your children make a plan to help at least one person in need this week.
This is another cute video with the Hymn that I think the kids will really like.
Heavenly Father promises blessings as I strive to obey Him.
You and your children could look in Doctrine and Covenants 82:8–10 for answers to the question “Why does Heavenly Father give us commandments?” You might want to help your children think of examples of His commandments (see, for example, Exodus 20:4–17; Matthew 22:37–39; Doctrine and Covenants 89:5–17). It might help if you and your children find or draw pictures to represent some of them. How do Heavenly Father’s commandments show His love for us?
Perhaps a simple game would help your children see God’s commandments as blessings, not burdens. One person could give instructions to help another person, who is blindfolded, to do something like make a sandwich or draw a picture. Think of something fun and creative! Then talk about how God’s commandments are like the instructions in this game.
Stay on the Road game.
Get as many different colors of markers (or crayons) as there are people in your class.
Have a blind fold.
Take turns blindfolding each child and give them a colored marker that is only theirs.
They will try to draw the a line and stay on the road, everyone can talk and help him/her. It is harder than you think.
Keep the same paper and give someone else a turn with a different colored marker.
talk about how God’s commandments are like the instructions in this game.
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