Lesson 13: MY FAMILY CAN BE TOGETHER FOREVER

 I mostly followed the lesson from the manual, but added my own little bit with these links.

 Each link is a member of a family - there are mom's, dad's, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins, and grandparents.  We talked about how the temple can seal our families together, and linking us as a family unit for eternity.  If even one person doesn't make it to the temple, although everyone else is still in tact, that eternal family circle is broken.

I made the links myself on a word document using clip art from this LDS Clip Art website.  I put it around the kids necks like a necklace for them to take home.

 

 For their craft I used this print out from here because I liked that the family and the temple were in the same shot.

 The kids colored it and then I came around and put glue on each of the temple spears and let the kids put glitter on them.  They loved this and it was a nice extra touch to a plain coloring sheet.

Lesson 12: I CAN PRAY WITH MY FAMILY

I brought a picnic basket with a few items inside: a piece of play food, a picture of a house, a picture of the temple, a picture of Jesus, a book of mormon, some toy characters that represented a mom, dad, brother, sister, and grandparents.  We talked about prayer and the proper way of saying a prayer, who we are praying to, who's name we pray in, and the other things we say in a prayer.  After we discussed it I pulled out my picnic basket and had each of the kids draw something from it and we talked about each item and how we are thankful for those items and how we can say thanks to our Heavenly Father for those blessings.

They colored the handout from the manual.

MY FAMILY CAN FOLLOW JESUS CHRIST IN FAITH

I was out of town for this lesson, but I saw this from an Ensign magazine and thought it'd be a great lesson to teach to the kids.  Not only should they follow Jesus Christ, but they should encourage their families to follow Jesus Christ as well.  I think this is very important.

Lesson 11: I LOVE MY FAMILY

I pretty much just followed the lesson from the manual.

 

I colored the picture from the manual and used it to teach in the lesson.  I had the kids draw a family member out of a bag and then we discussed that persons roll in the family. We went over The Family: A Proclamation to the World and I just took little bits from it and read the basics of what a Father's roll is and basics of what a Mother's roll is.We also sang "We Are a Happy Family". 

 I had the kids color this picture from the manual.

As a gift to the kids I gave them this bag of skittles with this poem:

Families are like candied skittles

Each one uniquely colored

Some are red, some blue, some green

And some are even spotted

Each one's flavor is all it's own

Some tart, some sweet, some sweeter

Some get scooped up right away

And some get saved for later

Although each one is different

And some favored over others

Put 'em all in a basket and

They all go great together.