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Old Testament Scripture Mastery Candy Puns

October 22, 2015

Scripture Mastery is probably my favorite part of Seminary. I still struggle with the idea that waking up at 5:00 is going to help me become a better person, but I endure it anyway. Scripture Mastery, though, is something special. I love how they all teach the basic principles of the gospel, and I’m always surprised by how frequently I use them in the weirdest situations!

I was sitting around one day and thought “Wouldn’t it be cool to make candy puns for Scripture Mastery?” and my head kept spinning for the rest of the day. I brainstormed with my older sister, and we ended up with a list of candies for all 25 Old Testament Scripture Mastery verses that I’m actually pretty proud of. My only rule was that it had to be a candy I could find walking through the grocery store, and I was successful! Of course it isn’t perfect, and some puns are better than others, but they’re still all pretty amusing. In fact, I’ve started coming up with more for the other standard works!

The fun part now is finding uses for these puns. My two main ideas were to have students try to match the candies with the verses, OR they could be used as incentives for memorization. Candy has a way of motivating even the least motivated students to do things. I’m sure there are DOZENS of ideas out there for memorizing, teaching, chasing, and more! (And feel free to share them!)

The list is below (along with a couple explanations). I considered making wrappers for all of them, but then there were too many different sizes of each candy, so instead I made nice, uniformly sized printables for each verse. These printables are available in my Etsy store. They can be used as cards for a game, attached to candy bars, turned into a bingo board, or anything else anyone can think of. .

THE LIST:

Moses 1:39 – Lifesaver Candy
Immortality and eternal LIFE come through being SAVED by Jesus Christ
Moses 7:18 – Good & Plenty
Zion was RIGHTEOUS and had PLENTY because there was no poor
Abraham 3:22-23 – King Size Milky Way (I figured Milky Way’s are pretty generic and well-liked)
Abraham saw many NOBLE & GREAT SIZED intelligences
Genesis 1:26-27 – Hershey’s Milk Chocolate
HE & SHE were created in the image of God (It’s does require a bit of a stretch, but one you see it it works–and it’s still grammatically correct!)
Genesis 2:24 – Hershey’s Kisses
HE & SHE CLEAVE to each other (since kiss & cleave are appropriate substitutes in this context)
Genesis 39:9 – Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Joseph RESISTED (Reese’s-ted) Temptation
Joshua 24:15 – Charleston Chews
CHOOSE to serve the Lord
Exodus 19:5-6 – Chocolate Treasure Coins
God’s covenant people are a peculiar TREASURE
Exodus 20:3-17 – 100 Grand
Follow the 10 GRAND Commandments
1 Samuel 16:7 – Milky Way Fun Size (Again, because it’s generic and fairly popular)
The Lord looks not at your SIZE, but your heart
Psalm 24:3-4 – Orbit Gum (“A good CLEAN feeling”)
You need to be CLEAN to stand in holy places
Psalm 119:105 – Fruit by the Foot
God’s word is a lamp unto my FEET
Psalm 127:3 – Sour Patch Kids
CHILDREN are an heritage of the Lord
Proverbs 3:5-6 – Sweethearts
Trust in the Lord with all thine HEART
Isaiah 1:18 – Hostess’ Sno Balls
You sins may be white as SNOW
Isaiah 5:20 – Hershey’s Dark Chocolate
Woe unto them that call EVIL good & good EVIL, that put DARKNESS for light and light for DARKNESS
Isaiah 29:13-14 – S’Marshmallows
The restoration was S’MARVELOUS and S’WONDERFUL (This one is a stretch, because it relies on being familiar with the song S’Wonderful, but I couldn’t think of something better)
Isaiah 53:3-5 – Candy Cane
With His STRIPES we are healed (This is actually legitimately part of the story behind the candy cane)
Isaiah 58:6-7 – Reese’s Fast Break
Take a BREAK to FAST (You could even tie it back to RESISTing the temptation to eat)
Isaiah 58:13-14 – Hershey’s Air Delight
The Sabbath is a DELIGHT
Jeremiah 1:4-5 – Jelly Belly
God knew you before you were formed in the BELLY
Amos 3:7 – Nothing (Yes, it’s cheating, but…)
The Lord reveals NOTHING (except unto His servants)
Ezekiel 37:15-17 – Twix
TWO STIXS shall be joined together in the last days (Where else could the name come from?)
Malachi 3:8-10 – PayDay
PAYING tithing brings blessings
Malachi 4:5-6 – Sugar Baby & Sugar Daddy (It could be one or the other, but both would tie it together better)
The hearts of the CHILDREN turn to their FATHERS

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2016 Mutual Theme Crafts for New Beginnings and Girls Camp

October 9, 2015 7 Comments

I’m not the most creative person, so when I learned that this arrow charm with eternity circle made craft-making so easy, I had to try it myself.  Are these bracelets awesome or what?  I think they are perfect for the 2016 mutual theme.  It takes only about five minutes to make each bracelet, and the tools and findings can be found at any hardware or craft store.  In fact, my…
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Showing Love for our parents~ lesson 39

October 8, 2015

I am always looking for a theme to go with my lesson. Sometimes the choice is obvious and other times I have to get creative. This lesson was the creative route.

I went with I “Mustache” how can we show love for our parents.

Before church starts I have the opportunity to go set my classroom up which is a HUGE help for me. So under each chair I put half of a mustache that I cut out of black paper and on the back of that paper were scriptures. They will have to find their other half and then with that person fill out a short questionnaire about what they read.

As class starts I am going to try and be sneaky and put on a fake mustache (which you can find at the Dollar tree) and start the lesson. After the giggles are done I’ll have them each put one on as well and we’ll proceed with the lesson. If they are irreverent or disrespectful they loose their mustache. (which they will be instructed as I hand them out)

I am altering the lesson a little by adding a sharing time activity idea I found and replacing the part

Moroni Showed Love for His Father. I felt like I needed more activity in my lesson, it felt like a lot of me talking and I wanted to engage the kids more. 

This is the activity I am using:
 Divide the children into small groups. Give each group one of the following scripture references: (1) 1 Nephi 3:heading, 1–9; 4:6–14 [1 Ne. 3:1–9; 1 Ne. 4:6–14]. (2) Jacob 7:27; Enos 1:1–5. (3) Mosiah 27:14, Mosiah 32. (4) Alma 36:heading; Alma 37:1–2, 14; preface to 45–62; Alma 62:45. (5) Alma 38:1–4, 10:preface, heading; Alma 63:1–2. Instruct them to answer the following questions: (1) Who is speaking, or whom is being spoken of? (2) Who are the parents? (3) What is one thing the parents taught? (4) Did the child respect, honor, and love the parents by following their teachings? (5) What happened when this person followed the teachings of the parents? Have one member of each group report the answers to the questions.

These are my words trips for the chalkboard


For the handout I found a mustache chocolate sucker mold at Michaels that I’ll make for each of them with this tags attached. 
And of course our newsletter for the week. 
All my printables can be downloaded HERE

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Lesson 37

October 4, 2015

Lesson from the manual

Doing two lessons in a row with service as an underlying theme made it a little more difficult to come up with some ideas.

I had made up a wooden spoon attached to a long piece of wood (a yard stick would work great) and asked them each if they could feed themselves with this spoon. They each took a turn to try. I then told them this story:

One day a man said to God, “God, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like.
God showed the man two doors. Inside the first one, in the middle of the room, was a large round table with a large pot of stew. It smelled delicious and made the man’s mouth water, but the people sitting around the table were thin and sickly. They appeared to be famished. They were holding spoons with very long handles and each found it possible to reach into the pot of stew and take a spoonful, but because the handle was longer than their arms, they could not get the spoons back into their mouths.
The man shuddered at the sight of their misery and suffering. God said, “You have seen Hell.”
Behind the second door, the room appeared exactly the same. There was the large round table with the large pot of wonderful stew that made the man’s mouth water. The people had the same long-handled spoons, but they were well nourished and plump, laughing and talking.
The man said, “I don’t understand.”

God smiled. “It is simple,” He said, “Love only requires one skill. These people learned early to feed one another. Those who are hungry are greedy people, and they think only of themselves.

They then tried to feed each other and saw that it worked much better.

In the lesson it says to hum songs, well I’m not a great singer or hummer so I brought a CD player and we kind of played name that tune with the songs.

For the Good Samaritan story I found this great idea to help the kids remember it. First I told this story that I found HERE using the banana’s, apple, and orange. I actually did smash the banana and the kids LOVED it.  I then asked them to tell me the story of the Good Samaritan and how it related to the story I just told them. They did great!

In this lesson it also tells you to find info on your bishop, I actually ran out of time in this lesson to tell about our bishop but we did discuss who serves in our ward and all the work that they do including the bishop. I had made up little thank you cards for them to write him a note of thanks then we placed them in a white paper bag in which I had bought a Buntlet and attached a tag to the top. We then closed up the bag and put a paper tie on the front and one of the kids delivered it to him.

On the bottom of the newsletter I made a service check for each of them to fill out and give to a family member.

For the hand out I made service “CANS”
I filled small fruit cans with candy and on the front of the can I put this poem

Do all the GOOD you can
By all the MEANS you can
In all the WAYS you can
To all the PEOPLE you can
At all the TIMES you can
For as LONG as you can

Helping comes in CANS not in CAN’TS


You can find instructions on how to make the cans HERE

And you can download my printables for this lesson HERE

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Lesson 36

October 4, 2015

Lesson from the manualSometimes it’s hard to teach these lessons to my 7/8 yr olds. They are still young enough to need these basic principles taught to them but some times they way they are presented in the lesson seem a little young. In this lesson i…

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lesson 34

October 4, 2015

This is my newsletter for the lesson as well as the paper handouts and words trips I used. Again this lesson was too long ago that I don’t remember much of what I did. I know I used cell phones and called on of them and had a member of the class answer…

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Lesson 33

October 4, 2015

Unfortunately I am starting these posts about a month too late. I can’t remember everything I did for this lesson and I haven’t been taking pictures of the handouts I’ve been giving either. SO starting at lesson 39 you’ll start seeing the hand outs and…

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