Easter story
Using twelve plastic Easter eggs tell the story of Easter. On the outside of each egg write the numbers 1-12 with one number written on each egg. On the inside of each egg put the strip of paper that goes with the number you have written on the outside and the object listed for that strip of paper. Put all…
Girls Camp Secret Sisters
Have a camp mail box made from vinyl shoe holders, the kind that fit over doors (They are quite inexpensive). Label each pocket with a girls name and insert a small note pad and pencil. Each girl has a secret sister that she writes to each day before 4:00 pm. These notes should be something that they admire or look…
Mormon 8 & 9 – By the Mouths of Two or Three Witnesses
We covered Mormon 8-9 today. Following a suggestion in the teacher’s manual, I’d purchased two different newspapers yesterday (the Times and the Tribune) and clipped out articles as reported therein on two different topics. One topic happened to be on the Jewish passover holiday and the other topic was on Iran’s plutonium situation. I was able to find within the…
Mormon 7 – Mormon’s Final Words
[example of classroom activity – to view up close, click on picture] Today we studied Mormon 7, Mormon’s final words after having viewed the destruction of his people who were part of a 900 year civilization, now ended. I’d drawn the two outlines of a body on the board, one with straight lines and one with disconnected lines (to represent…
Mormon 1-6: Is My Lantern Completely Clean?
[picture of a half-cleaned lantern] Today the students presented their research on Mormon 1-6. But before we started, I showed them a lantern that was very dirty on one side and freshly cleaned on the other. I asked them, “How easy would it be to see if this lantern were completely filthy?” Then, “How easy to see if this lantern…
Mormon 1-6: Heavenly Views
[samples of student work] Today we began to cover Mormon 1-6. I distributed 30 inch long strips of paper, approximately 5 inches wide (I’d cut these from a blank roll of newsprint paper). I’d drawn lines on each strip to divide it into seven equal sections. The first and last section I’d drawn a big X through the square, so…
Scripture Mastery “Contact!” Game
SUPPLIES NEEDED:a timernumbered pingpong balls (one per student)list of scripture mastery key wordsstudents’ individual scripturesindex card for each studentpaper hole punch HOW TO PLAY “CONTACT!”Today, to review scripture mastery, we played a game my husband made up called “Contact!” I placed a pingpong ball in a basket – one for each student. Each pingpong ball was numbered. I passed around…
4 Nephi – Descent to Depravity
[sample of student work – to see up close, simply click on the picture] Today our block of scripture was 4 Nephi. I distributed a descending stairway that my husband and I had created. As a class, we were going to analyze step-by-step Mormon’s brief record of the Nephites/Lamanites 300-year descent into depravity. He takes only one chapter to do…
Awesome Activities for LDS Church members
