March 16-22, Free Come Follow Me, Primary lesson helps
- redwallace
- 4 days ago
- 4 min read
Updated: 2 days ago
Hello!
The Easter lesson in the manual is scheduled for April 5th, but that day is General Conference. Because of that, the Church is observing Easter a week early with a special sacrament-only meeting on March 29. That means this week is really the only opportunity we have to teach the Easter lesson!
However, this week's assigned lesson is about Joseph, and forgiveness is so good. I recommend prayerfully studying both and, if you think you can, incorporating both lessons.
Click on this image to be taken to the Easter lesson.
This match-up activity shows many similarities between Joseph and our Savior and can easily (through discussion) help cover both lessons.
This is in my store. You can click on this image or the one in the red ribbons.
Here is a sample of one of the pages:
Don't miss the General Conference, free prints. There is a lot this week.
You can click this image to go to the page.
I can show love and forgiveness to my family.
It might be fun for your children to reenact the story of Joseph reuniting his family (see Genesis 42–44). Or they could use “Joseph and the Famine” (in Old Testament Stories, 57–60) or pictures in this outline to teach the story to each other. Here are some questions that could help your children learn from the story:
What did Joseph do to show love for his family? (see Genesis 45:4–15).
Why do you feel Joseph forgave his brothers?
How do you think Joseph’s brothers felt when they found out Joseph had forgiven them? Who in your life needs to be forgiven? How can you show love and forgiveness?
You or your children may want to share an experience when they forgave someone or when someone forgave them.
You can just use this for the scenarios, or do the object lesson with the bag-pack.
You could then sing a song such as “Love One Another” (Children’s Songbook, 136) or “Help Me, Dear Father” (Children’s Songbook, 99).
I love this interactive primary song.
(click on the picture to take you to the page to print this)
Here are some folding coloring pages, that help teach this. One for a boy and one for a girl.
You could help the children draw an outline of their hands and write in the outline something they can do to show love to their family.
This weeks gift tag I recommend the Easter bag tag.
The Lord helps me through priesthood blessings.
You and your children could look at the picture of Jacob blessing his sons at the end of this outline and discuss what is happening (see Genesis 48:8–9). If needed, explain that Jacob, Joseph’s father, wanted to give priesthood blessings to his family. Perhaps you could share with each other any experiences you’ve had receiving help from God through a priesthood blessing. What are some reasons we might ask for a priesthood blessing?
Heavenly Father sent Jesus Christ to save me.
How can you help your children see the Savior in the story of Joseph saving his family from famine? Consider making a chart with two columns labeled Joseph and Jesus Christ. Help your children search the following pairs of scriptures and fill in the chart with things that Joseph and Jesus have in common: Genesis 37:3 and Matthew 3:17; Genesis 37:26–28 and Matthew 26:14–16; Genesis 45:5–7 and Luke 4:18; and Genesis 47:12 and John 6:35.
Ask your children what it means to save or rescue someone. If any of them have had an experience being saved or rescued from danger, invite them to share. How did Joseph save his brothers? (see Genesis 42:1–3; 45:5–7). Then you could look at a picture of the Savior together and ask your children to talk about how Jesus saves us.
This is from 4 years ago, I am leaving it here for families.
The teacher assembles the puzzle ON TOP of the picture of Joseph Smith. After each scripture is read they get to remove the puzzle and revel (slowly) Joseph Smith. Bear testimony of him and the truth he brought to the bible because of his translations.
(print on colored card stock, optional)
Haz clic en la imagen para ver la lección en español.
