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The Last Supper!

Graham — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:33:41 +0000

Last night my wife did the Family Home Evening lesson. She called it “Scriptures In A Bag” (I’m not sure whether she made this up or found it online). She had several small paper bags on the floor, and each of them had an object or two in it. By seeing the objects in the bag, we were supposed to come up with a scripture that related to those objects. There were pictures of temples in one bag, a container of water in the other, a boat, notepad and pencil, and more. One of the bags that a toy peach, tomato and muffin in it. I joked with the family that I didn’t remember seeing any scripture that had a peach, tomato and muffin in it. My son that blurted out very loudly, “The last supper!”

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Random Family Home Evening activity ideas

Graham — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:29:46 +0000

We recently had an activity in the ward where we went through the different aspects of a Family Home Evening. The Young Men President and Young Women President ran the activity portion, and they had a handout with some ideas for Family Home Evening activities. There were no details provided on any of the suggestions. Some of these could be directly tied in to a lesson, others would just be for family fun. Most of them are self-explanatory, but if you want more details, you can do a search online and I’m sure you could find specifics.

Here are the suggestions:

Outdoor Activities

beach blanket volleyball with water balloons
water balloon toss
water gun fight
flour-filled balloon toss
egg toss
relay with sponges and 2 buckets
races around a high school track
tricycle races around a high school track
sack races
family walk or family hike
raking leaves contest
jump in leaf piles
tobogganing
build a snow fort
snowball fight

Service Activities

plan bulbs at the chapel
clean the chapel
shovel driveways
rake leaves
deliver home-made cookies
write letters to the missionaries
deliver sand-art cookies-in-a-jar
secret service delivery
invite another family to your Family Home Evening

Indoor Activities

scripture pictionary
scripture story picture guess
act-out scripture stories
do as I’m doing
hide and go seek
freeze tag
sardines
dance contest
crab walk race
sock tag
balloon toss or balloon keep-away
bean bag toss
hidden object search
tower building contest with recycling
board games
mini golf
make valentines
dye Easter eggs
carve pumpkins
decorate the Christmas Tree

Missionary Preparation Activities

tie tying contest
egg frying contest
Kraft Dinner making contest
ironing contest
button sewing contest
clothes folding relay race

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FHE – Draw That Hymn

Graham — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:29:59 +0000

My wife led the Family Home Evening lesson last night and we talked about Church music. She asked us all to draw a picture of our favourite hymn or Primary song and we would all try to guess it. The one who guessed it right got to sing the song. Here are our drawings. See if you can guess each song:

Did you get them all? Here are the answers:

Drawn by my 4-year-old son. This is a tough one… It’s “Follow The Prophet”. Apparently that is my son on the left and the prophet on the right.
Drawn by my 6-year-old son. It’s “Families Can Be Together Forever”. It is a family sitting in the living room together. One person is reading a book.
I drew this one (no, I’m not an artist). Hopefully you figured out that this is “Popcorn Popping”. There is a person looking out the window.
This was drawn by my wife. This is probably the easiest one to guess. Yes, it’s “Holding Hands Around the World”.

Sacrament Hymn 169 – As Now We Take the Sacrament I’ve commented before how I love music. I like most...

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Family Home Evening on Samuel the Lamanite

Graham — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:12:00 +0000

I’m not sure where my wife got the idea from, but recently she did a Family Home Evening lesson about Samuel the Lamanite. She made a “wall” out of Rice Krispie Squares and had a bunch of the kids toys standing on the table in front of the “wall”. A “Lamanite warrior” figure that my sister had purchased for my sons was used as Samuel.

In the crowd was smurfs, Geotrax men, army men, Little People (including a tourist, pilot, ice cream man, cave girl, and more) and a Mega Bloks Buzz Lightyear (that another sister had purchased for my sons).

It looks exactly like the scripture in Helaman 16!

And now, it came to pass that there were many who heard the words of Samuel, the Lamanite, which he spake upon the walls of the city. And as many as believed on his word went forth and sought for Nephi; and when they had come forth and found him they confessed unto him their sins and denied not, desiring that they might be baptized unto the Lord.

But as many as there were who did not believe in the words of Samuel were angry with him; and they cast stones at him upon the wall, and also many shot arrows at him as he stood upon the wall; but the Spirit of the Lord was with him, insomuch that they could not hit him with their stones neither with their arrows.

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