FHE Activities:
Family Home & Property Inventory Checklist~
From the lesson: "Protecting your home and property"
Helpful Web sites:
Know Your Stuff (Home Inventory Online Web site-- FREE!)
* You can upload images of all your property as well as descriptions of your items all in one location online.
Home Inventory Check List (paper version)
Activity:
Youth to Adults: Inventory Your Home You can slit the home and assign rooms to each person in the family. You may want to use this helpful sheet to document the items and their value. You should have at least two copies of this list. You should store one copy in a fire and water-proof box in your home and a copy in a safety deposit box. You may want to even talk with family members who may live in your area about doing this same home inventory and even sharing a safety deposit box.
Home Inventory Check-list (click on link to download)
Articles of Faith~
Young to Tweens: Articles of Faith Activity
From the lesson: "Protecting your home and property"
Helpful Web sites:
Know Your Stuff (Home Inventory Online Web site-- FREE!)
* You can upload images of all your property as well as descriptions of your items all in one location online.
Home Inventory Check List (paper version)
Activity:
Youth to Adults: Inventory Your Home You can slit the home and assign rooms to each person in the family. You may want to use this helpful sheet to document the items and their value. You should have at least two copies of this list. You should store one copy in a fire and water-proof box in your home and a copy in a safety deposit box. You may want to even talk with family members who may live in your area about doing this same home inventory and even sharing a safety deposit box.
Home Inventory Check-list (click on link to download)
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Teach our Children Series: Prayer
Make Prayer Rocks-
Supplies Needed: Glue, rocks,crafty eyes, and markers. To make them have a child and parent chose their own rock. Then let them right their names on them (if too young help them), then let them decorate them. Make sure the rocks are clean and big enough to be able to put on or under their pillows so they can feel them when they put their heads on them.
Coloring Pictures
Cut out Prayer Door Hangers
Articles of Faith~
Young to Tweens: Articles of Faith Activity
Teens: Write the Articles of Faith on a card--one per card. Write out the numbers 1-13 on other cards. Mix them up and play Articles of Faith Memory Game. You can split into teams or play against each other. You can double the cards for more options if you have a large family. The winner gets a special prize.
Single Adult Wards/FHE Groups: Split the Articles of Faith up between apartments or homes of the people in your ward or group. Do a rotation of lessons... at house #1: talk about Articles of Faith #1-4; house #2: AOF #5-8; house #3: AOF #9-13 and the final house/apartment or church building is where everyone gathers for treats!
The Holy Ghost~
Option A: Inside a room, turn out all the lights. Find a single lamp to turn on and talk about how the light gives off warmth, helps us to see and provides a beacon in the darkness. (Great for young children who understand turning lights off and on)
Option B:Blindfold a member of the family or FHE group. Assign two other people to lead them around the home, outside and so on. One leader acts as the Holy Ghost--giving right directions and the other acts as the adversary--giving wrong directions. Allow the blindfolded person to rely on their own choices on who to follow. Talk about how important it is to listen to the small voice of the Holy Ghost and how easy it is to drown out the righteous help He tries to offer.
Patriarchal Blessings~
Color code your patriarchal blessing(email Tiffany at merrymittons@msn.com for the file to do this) and share special excerpts with your family from your patriarchal blessings.
Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy~
Make a family poster of activities to strengthen the family on the Sabbath Day. You can let the children pick out pictures from old copies of The Friend or the Ensign and glue them to the poster.
Temple Work/Temples~
List ways to prepare to be worthy of being in the temple to do temple work. Look at pictures of temples around the world.
Little ones: If you live close to a temple, have the lesson during a family picnic on the lawn. You may even want to plan a separate trip in preparation for this lesson so that they will have something to relate to during the lesson.
Tweens/Teens: Play a temple matching game.
Young children--
Have the children draw or color pictures of the temples. You can also play a matching game using small pictures of temples and their locations on separate cards.
Tweens/Teens--
Get a globe and find out who can pin-point the most locations of temples across the world. Finding temple locations outside of the United States receive more points than finding those withing the United States.
Family--
Set a goal as a family to attend the temple with all your children that are 12 and older. Go together and do baptisms for the dead. If you have younger children, attend the Visitor's Center if one is located near you. They have wonderful, inspiration movies to see. Also, walk around the temple or have your FHE on temple grounds.
Parents--
Make a goal to attend the temple, but also make a goal that stretches you. If you normally attend once a month and going twice a month would be really hard to do, try it out even if you go once by yourself and then once with your spouse.
Biggest Loser~
"Biggest Loser" This is a game to be played during the rest of the week. Challenge your family members to lose themselves in the service of others during the coming week. Give them a certain number of pennies, and have an empty jar, bowl, or other container somewhere noticeable during the week. Each time they serve someone during the week, they can drop a penny into the container (without having to tell anyone what they did.) The "Biggest Loser" is the one who loses their pennies by the end of the week, losing themselves in the service of others. You can have one biggest loser, or just set a deadline (Sat. night, etc.) so that everyone can win (or lose?!)
Building Testimonies~
Make root beer floats and explain how each of us is the ice cream and the more we read the Book of Mormon, the more our testimony will grow or float.
Little ones to teens: Use blocks and build a tower. Build one without a good base and one with a good base. Talk about how the tower with the better foundation is able to withstand certain elements, temptations, etc. You can use various items to be the elements--hairdryer, etc.
Single Adult Ward/ FHE Groups: Play Testimony Jinga. List ways to build testimonies and place them on pieces of the game. Mix them up as you build up the tower. As you take out the pieces that have words placed on them, discuss them.
Music~
Have your children gather 3-5 of their favorite CDs (with lyrics included) prior to the lesson being giving. Have them put them in the middle of the area you're giving the lesson. After discussing the lesson, scripture and reading the talk, have one family member take a CD lyric page and write down appropriate or inappropriate lyrics. Discuss some of the lyrics they hear in songs and why these may or may not be appropriate to listen to. Challenge them to destroy the inappropriate CDs and help them realize that this small sacrifice will make a tremendous difference in their lives. Parents are encouraged to do the same activity with their music.
Find songs that uplift and inspire little children. Sing songs together as a family-- songs that encourage play and songs that are from primary. Talk with the children about what it means to be a child of God and how this song can help them feel better during hard times.
Find one church-related song that you love and is easy to remember. Each member can pick out their own song-- from primary or from the hymn book. This family challenge is for everyone. Each time you're discouraged, angry, sad and so on, challenge yourself to sing your song of choice. After awhile it will become second nature. It is better to have a song of the heart than rage of any type.
Family Finances~
If you have the game of "Life" it'll be a fun family activity (if your children are old enough). It teaches decision-making and some playful family financing. You can also teach your children to pay their tithing on their "incomes" as they play along.
Little ones to tweens: For younger children, make a chart that allows them to earn money. Allow them to earn 5 cents for turning off lights when leaving a room, not wasting water and so on. Little things that can add up on the family's utility bill. Then help them put money in their savings jar. You can also create various types of savings jars as an activity-- one for tithing, one for mission, one for college, one for fun. The possibilities are endless. It'll help give them ownership of where they choose to put their money. (See Guide to Family Finance talk #6)
Manners~
List 5-10 ways each person can improve their manners during the next week. Talk about why it is important to have good manners. What are some bad manners that people have?
For one week, write down ways that people use bad and good manners as you make trips to the store, park, community center, church, social groups and so on. Compare your lists before the next FHE lesson and see how people in your community act.
Challenge: Practice 3 new good manner techniques listed on the "Manners Guide" or other manners not currently practiced.
*Remember, it is not an insult to say "Yes/No 'Mam and Sir" to adults and children of any age.
Fasting With a Purpose~
Practice with children on how to correctly bear a testimony. The talk on "Testimony" above is from the April 2008 General Conference. It provides guidance to what our testimonies should consist of when we bear them in public.
Write your testimonies individually on paper and put them in a "time capsule" to open up in a specific amount of time agreed upon by the family. (For example, five years from now, ten years from now, when they each graduate from seminary and so on).
The Holy Ghost~
Option A: Inside a room, turn out all the lights. Find a single lamp to turn on and talk about how the light gives off warmth, helps us to see and provides a beacon in the darkness. (Great for young children who understand turning lights off and on)
Option B:Blindfold a member of the family or FHE group. Assign two other people to lead them around the home, outside and so on. One leader acts as the Holy Ghost--giving right directions and the other acts as the adversary--giving wrong directions. Allow the blindfolded person to rely on their own choices on who to follow. Talk about how important it is to listen to the small voice of the Holy Ghost and how easy it is to drown out the righteous help He tries to offer.
Patriarchal Blessings~
Color code your patriarchal blessing(email Tiffany at merrymittons@msn.com for the file to do this) and share special excerpts with your family from your patriarchal blessings.
Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy~
Make a family poster of activities to strengthen the family on the Sabbath Day. You can let the children pick out pictures from old copies of The Friend or the Ensign and glue them to the poster.
Temple Work/Temples~
List ways to prepare to be worthy of being in the temple to do temple work. Look at pictures of temples around the world.
Little ones: If you live close to a temple, have the lesson during a family picnic on the lawn. You may even want to plan a separate trip in preparation for this lesson so that they will have something to relate to during the lesson.
Tweens/Teens: Play a temple matching game.
Young children--
Have the children draw or color pictures of the temples. You can also play a matching game using small pictures of temples and their locations on separate cards.
Tweens/Teens--
Get a globe and find out who can pin-point the most locations of temples across the world. Finding temple locations outside of the United States receive more points than finding those withing the United States.
Family--
Set a goal as a family to attend the temple with all your children that are 12 and older. Go together and do baptisms for the dead. If you have younger children, attend the Visitor's Center if one is located near you. They have wonderful, inspiration movies to see. Also, walk around the temple or have your FHE on temple grounds.
Parents--
Make a goal to attend the temple, but also make a goal that stretches you. If you normally attend once a month and going twice a month would be really hard to do, try it out even if you go once by yourself and then once with your spouse.
Biggest Loser~
"Biggest Loser" This is a game to be played during the rest of the week. Challenge your family members to lose themselves in the service of others during the coming week. Give them a certain number of pennies, and have an empty jar, bowl, or other container somewhere noticeable during the week. Each time they serve someone during the week, they can drop a penny into the container (without having to tell anyone what they did.) The "Biggest Loser" is the one who loses their pennies by the end of the week, losing themselves in the service of others. You can have one biggest loser, or just set a deadline (Sat. night, etc.) so that everyone can win (or lose?!)
Building Testimonies~
Make root beer floats and explain how each of us is the ice cream and the more we read the Book of Mormon, the more our testimony will grow or float.
Little ones to teens: Use blocks and build a tower. Build one without a good base and one with a good base. Talk about how the tower with the better foundation is able to withstand certain elements, temptations, etc. You can use various items to be the elements--hairdryer, etc.
Single Adult Ward/ FHE Groups: Play Testimony Jinga. List ways to build testimonies and place them on pieces of the game. Mix them up as you build up the tower. As you take out the pieces that have words placed on them, discuss them.
Music~
Have your children gather 3-5 of their favorite CDs (with lyrics included) prior to the lesson being giving. Have them put them in the middle of the area you're giving the lesson. After discussing the lesson, scripture and reading the talk, have one family member take a CD lyric page and write down appropriate or inappropriate lyrics. Discuss some of the lyrics they hear in songs and why these may or may not be appropriate to listen to. Challenge them to destroy the inappropriate CDs and help them realize that this small sacrifice will make a tremendous difference in their lives. Parents are encouraged to do the same activity with their music.
Find songs that uplift and inspire little children. Sing songs together as a family-- songs that encourage play and songs that are from primary. Talk with the children about what it means to be a child of God and how this song can help them feel better during hard times.
Find one church-related song that you love and is easy to remember. Each member can pick out their own song-- from primary or from the hymn book. This family challenge is for everyone. Each time you're discouraged, angry, sad and so on, challenge yourself to sing your song of choice. After awhile it will become second nature. It is better to have a song of the heart than rage of any type.
Family Finances~
If you have the game of "Life" it'll be a fun family activity (if your children are old enough). It teaches decision-making and some playful family financing. You can also teach your children to pay their tithing on their "incomes" as they play along.
Little ones to tweens: For younger children, make a chart that allows them to earn money. Allow them to earn 5 cents for turning off lights when leaving a room, not wasting water and so on. Little things that can add up on the family's utility bill. Then help them put money in their savings jar. You can also create various types of savings jars as an activity-- one for tithing, one for mission, one for college, one for fun. The possibilities are endless. It'll help give them ownership of where they choose to put their money. (See Guide to Family Finance talk #6)
Manners~
List 5-10 ways each person can improve their manners during the next week. Talk about why it is important to have good manners. What are some bad manners that people have?
For one week, write down ways that people use bad and good manners as you make trips to the store, park, community center, church, social groups and so on. Compare your lists before the next FHE lesson and see how people in your community act.
Challenge: Practice 3 new good manner techniques listed on the "Manners Guide" or other manners not currently practiced.
*Remember, it is not an insult to say "Yes/No 'Mam and Sir" to adults and children of any age.
Fasting With a Purpose~
Practice with children on how to correctly bear a testimony. The talk on "Testimony" above is from the April 2008 General Conference. It provides guidance to what our testimonies should consist of when we bear them in public.
Write your testimonies individually on paper and put them in a "time capsule" to open up in a specific amount of time agreed upon by the family. (For example, five years from now, ten years from now, when they each graduate from seminary and so on).
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