Perfecting the Saints — One Lesson at a Time
Before Primary starts, hide the following wordstrips around the room (make the first letter of each word bold): Heed, Obey, Need, Owe our life, Understand, Respect. [Tell the children you’ve hidden the word strips, and then] Have the children who find them bring them to the front. Post the words, one above the other, to vertically spell “honour”. Have everyone read Ex. 20:12 and, if appropriate, mention that in the…
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Gather childrem in the doorway of a room leading out into a long hallway, have the light on in the room. Point out to the kids that you can’t tell exactly where it becomes totally black in the hallway, it gradually darkens. Just as some activities we choose aren’t totally bad. But the more we choose these kind of things to do the closer we are drawn to that line…
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Elder Rex D. Pinegar spent his “growing-up years in Spanish Fork, Utah, first on a fruit farm, then, later, in a home in the city.” Rex and his twin brother, Max, were the ninth and tenth children in their family. “We grew up respecting our parents. My father was in the insurance business. In those days the insurance agent performed all the services. He collected the premiums, he paid the…
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Have girls sit back to back, each having her own set of shapes. One girl will set her pieces in a design and describe to the other how to set her pieces up to match the exact way that she has set out her pieces. The girl that is trying to match CAN NOT speak. Once the girls think that they have the pieces matching each other have them look…
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Show all of the envelopes at the beginning of class and state that these are special letters sent from President Hinckley. Have each member of the class take an envelope and one by one open the letter, read it aloud, and answer whether they would be prepared or willing to do it.
Show the class the caramel covered onion. Really talk up the “apple”. Tell them how delicious it is (they probably won’t need much convincing.) Invite a volunteer to eat it and describe to the others in the class how good it is. At this point, depending on the volunteer’s nature and how far you want to take the lesson, you can either ask the volunteer to take a big bite…
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I set my objects on a table and tell the youth that I need a volunteer, one that will have faith in my instructions. I ask that the volunteer must be sure to follow my instructions explicitly and is not allowed to talk or to show emotion during the entire duration of the task at hand. I then remind the volunteer of their commitment & faith and ask them to…
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Ask for a volunteer. Tell them that if they do 10 jumping jacks(or something quick)that you PROMISE(use the word “promise” over and over) that you will give them a pack of gum. After they have finished, tell them they did a good job but you’ve changed your mind and only give them 1 piece instead of the whole pack. Ask for another volunteer and do the same thing over(the kids…
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Begin by singing Scripture Power. Say, “We are going to go on a treasure hunt and look for treasure”. Read 1st clue (below). During the treasure hunt try and get the children to do something else (say, “instead of going to the library how about if we go to the cultural hall and see if we can find the next clue?” to show that you need to be obedient, and…
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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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Take an orange and ask the class what it will do if you put is in a container of water (sink or float). Put in the orange and notice it floats. Write different standards on the peel with permanent maker, all around the orange (so now your one orange has many standards written on it). Now peel off the skin, taking the standards with it. Ask the class if it…
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Print off scripture: “Chews” you this day whom ye will serve; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” (Josh. 24: 15) Tape it to pack of gum.
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