Perfecting the Saints — One Lesson at a Time
Read Ether 12:6 or any faith related scripture. After reading hand a piece of paper to each of the students and say to the class that you now want to test their faith, then tell them that they have to make a hole with the piece of paper big enough to fit themselves through it! Some laugh or say its impossible. Let them have a go for a while. Sometimes…
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Show the hourglass or timer and discuss how we are all like the individual pieces of sand. We are all together in the top of the hourglass, and we go down the hourglass we may feel like we are being restricted and squeezed. People are telling us what to do, how to act, how to dress, what time to be home, etc. But if we decide not to follow the…
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This is part of a lesson that I taught called “Understanding Your Divine Nature”. I held up the first pot (plain pot with the beautiful plant inside of it) and then held up the second (much prettier pot) and asked if they could be represented by a flower pot, which pot would you choose to be??? (Of course, they pretty much chose the pretty pot) Before we came to earth,…
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Before class, choose a class member that would be comfortable being blindfolded during class. Don’t tell the class member before hand. Invite a parent of the class member to visit the class without letting the class member know. Invite a member of the ward to visit the class who doesn’t know the class member. Have both invites remain outside the classroom until you call them in. Have the class member…
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I asked each member of the class to listen to the heart of the girl next to her. They laughed and giglled!. Then I gave them each a stethescope and had them listen again. Our lesson was on the Holy Ghost as an instrument used in hearing Heavenly Father. It worked great!
You will need to hold the broom up and say, “Follow the iron rod”. Then have someone close by eating cake have them yell, “Hey come get some delicious cake”! Explain that they’re trying to tempt him. Demonstrate that by holding to the Iron Rod (the Word of God, or the scriptures), we stay on the path heading to our eternal destination.
When teaching primary teachers the importance of being prepared and knowing their lesson material relate it to the cake, which is on display. Talk about how desirable it is, how it took time to prepare it and make it. Compare this to the lesson manuals and helps put out by the church for teaching. They are desirable and someone has gone to much time to prepard them for us to…
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Before class make sure you have access to another room including your regular one. In your regular class room you will need to spread a bunch of paperballs and torn up paper all over the floor. I also had chairs laying on the ground. I wrote on the board “How does our surroundings make us feel?” The girls will enter in wondering what happened. Eventually lead them to a new…
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Choose a particulary good sport in the class to “honor”, pointing out what a great person this is, and spend a bit of time singing thier praises. And because of all this, I want to share this beautiful cake with them. Then, instead of using the pretty things, grab a handful of cake, and plop it in their hands. It matters how we “deliver” our lessons/the gospel.
Have children sit on the floor with the small bowls in front of them. Parcel out 10 kernels to each, pretty much using up one bowl. Then ask each child if you can have one kernel, thanking each one who is willing to share, but just moving on from those who won’t. Then, fill each bowl of those who shared overflowing with popcorn.
I used this to teach how unity strengthens us and dis-unity weakens us. Have a YW take a pencil and break it. Talk about how it was easy to break because it was only one pencil. Then get several pencils (10 or so) and have a YW try to break them. It’s very hard. Talk about how, when we stand together we are strong and hard to break, but when…
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Place a candy at each side of the room. Have two people come up and link arms, back to back. Tell them they have 10 seconds to get their respective candy bar. When you say go they will each begin pulling the other one in the opposite direction, one will either get their candy bar or neither will. The point is that had they worked together and cooperated to go…
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