Perfecting the Saints — One Lesson at a Time
Get two volunteers. Give each volunteer 10-30 square childrens ABC blocks. (amount depends on what age you are working with, they will be stacking the blocks, so young children will not be able to stack as many) Tell the volunteers that they have an assignment to stack as many blocks as they can. One person will get approx. 10 seconds while the other gets 1 minute (again vary time according…
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Our YW lesson was on Time Mangagement. I arranged for our YW President to separate the girls into classes and when it came time for my lesson in the Laurel class, she used her theatrical experience :) and vocally wondered where I was. I was outside the door waiting for her to peek her head out “looking for me”. I then came running into class-with my manual in hand, slippers…
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As you start out the lesson let the girls know that you prepared cookies for them and pass them out. Pass out the second batch of cookies, the ones in which you did not measure the ingredients. See if you get any reactions. If they are too polite to say anything you can let them know that there is something unusual about these cookies. After they point it out say…
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This is a simple and easy, yet thought provoking object lesson. It can also be applied in many different ways. Start by lighting one of the candles, ask for a volunteer and give them a candle. Then light the other candle from the candle already lit. What did they observe? Did the candle lose any of it’s momentum from sharing it’s flame. No, in fact it shines brighter. Hence, “a…
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Have someone tie their string to the pole and see if they can pull the stick off the ground and try to make it stand straight up. Then have some one else tie their string on and see if it works with two people. You can keep adding one by one, or just show how when everyone isn’t working together it won’t get the job done. Tie everyone’s string onto…
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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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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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Demonstrate how two separate colors of yarn can be knit together to become stronger and more beautiful and useful than one. Have someone than can knit (or crochet) knit the yarn together while you read Mosiah 18: 21: “And he commanded them that there should be no contention one with another, but that they should look forward with one eye, having one faith and one baptism, having their hearts knit…
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In teaching the lesson for YW (being dependable) I have arranged to be late, putting the burden on the other leaders to scramble to fill in and teach the lesson. I will come in late set up my things while everone is waiting. This came then lead into discussion and feeling of how being dependable affects others.
We may start out as a neat individual (bare string) but for every trial we overcome (wax)(Everytime they say some trial the overcome or they overcame a fear they can dip their string into the wax making them a well rounded person with many talents! Then as they countinue to gather these talents and overcome these fear and obstacles that turn into talents they can let their light so shine!…
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Mix ingredients together by squeezing the bag and passing it around the group. Discuss friendship, teamwork, commitment, service, being part of a group, magnifying callings, etc — the possibilities are endless. When is is mixed together, roll it into a log and slice and serve. (You may need extra powdered sugar or you can eat it with spoons right out of the bag. ) (This object lesson would be especially…
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The following is from Teaching, No Greater Call, B: Basic Principles of Gospel Teaching–Use Effective Methods, 27: Choosing Effective Methods, page 92: For example, a young missionary was teaching an investigator about the need for the gospel to be restored to the earth. The investigator responded that his church had taught him many valuable truths and that it had always been good enough for his family. To help the investigator…
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