FHE kits make a great service project, activity, or LDS gift idea (baptism, home teaching, wedding. etc.)
Start with
- a container (a box or basket)
- a copy of the FHE Manual (or some lessons printed up from the online version at lds.org)
- most recent conference edition of the Ensign or Liahona (May or November)
And add any of the following items
- a copy of the Primary Sacrament Meeing Program – these are organized monthly with weekly topics, scriptures, and lesson resources. Teaching these topics will help reinforce principles taught in Primary.
- a dry-erase board
- a flannel board
- a list of free activities in your area
- board game
- bag of microwave popcorn
- Cornerstones of a Happy Home pamphlet
- Children’s Songbook
- Church DVD(s) or Video(s) from LDS Distribution
- construction paper
- Family Guidebook pamphlet
- family friendly recipes
- glue
- Family Group Sheets (blank, no temple data blanks, PDF format), also available from Distribution with temple data blanks
- FHE Planning Wheel
- FHE Agenda Sheets
- For the Strength of Youth pamphlet
- FHE activity from the current edition of the Friend
- FHE activity from the current edition of the New Era
- Gospel Art Picture Kit or print out some pictures from the Gospel Art picture kit online
- Gospel Principles manual
- Guidebook for Parents and Guardians of Handicapped Children pamphlet
- Handouts you or your children receive during church lessons – these make a good starting point for lessons
- How to Talk to Your Teenager pamphlet
- History of an ancestor
- History of your community
- Hot chocolate
- hymnal
- New Era Posters (Mormonads)
- Our Family: A Practical Guide for Building a Gospel-Centered Home pamphlet
- tPreventing and Responding to Child Abuse pamphlet
- Proclamation to the World (Family Proclamation), can be printed in PDF format here
- packet of Kool-aid mix
- paper
- pencils, markers, crayons
- scissors
- scriptures
- some cutouts from the Friend mounted on flannel or stiff paper
- Visual Aid Cutouts from Church Distribution – can be used as flannel board figures
You can get many of these items at LDS Distribution Catalog Online. Be sure to look at the Pamphlets
See also Melodie Webb,”Ready-Made Family Home Evening,” Ensign, Feb. 2003, 73
More Ideas to Include in your FHE Kit:
Printables from my FHE clipart library
My Two Years of Family Home Evening Lessons – printer optimized
Family Home Evening in a Jar strips
Deseret Book’s Free Family Home Evening Packets
