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Mother's Day Primary Program - Blog Entry

06 Jun 2007 10:08 PM

Did the primary children in your ward make something during primary time to give to the mothers in addition to the singing? With Father's Day coming up I'm just wondering, what great, meaningful, simple gift ideas are out there that we can help the primary children do. Have any ideas?

Primary Time: The Faith in God Award - Blog Entry

28 Feb 2007 06:16 AM

I visited another ward over president's day and they had a Faith in God poster for each child 8 and up to put on their wall at home. I think this might remind the primary child and help them track their progress. I didn't get a chance to ask about it. Have you seen it?

Primary Time: Five Ideas for Quarterly Activities - Blog Entry

07 Feb 2007 09:57 AM

In the 2007 Outline there is a sharing time idea that if expanded would make a great quarterly activity. It is already planned out with three stations and teaches the plan of salvation. It might be great. If anyone has done this, please tell me how it went and what the problems were. Thanks.

Primary Time: Five Ideas for Quarterly Activities - Blog Entry

01 Feb 2007 11:57 AM

I just posted the last quarterly activity idea. The apostrophes and quotation marks were replaced with a bunch of garbage text. Sorry. I posted the same thing at primarypage under quarterly activities, so you can see it there. Primary page takes out the crude word for bottom so some words like compassion are tweaked. Oh, well. You could also private message me and I will email you a clean copy of the text. Good luck.

Primary Time: Five Ideas for Quarterly Activities - Blog Entry

01 Feb 2007 11:51 AM

I appreciate your ideas. We did a pioneer parade last summer and the children sang as they walked. The children were given a name of someone who crossed the plains. We marched around the baseball diamond at our church, some of them barefoot. It was safe and fun. They combined it with a ward dinner outside. Here is an idea for a quarterly activity that goes with the 2007 theme, â€Å"I’ll Follow Him in Faith,â€Â� using 4 stations or centers. At each station the child receives a cutout footprint and pastes a picture on or draws a picture. I suggest an opening or ending time together for just 5 minutes where you sing the song for this year’s theme, â€Å"I’ll Follow Him in Faithâ€Â� and give a lunch bag with their name on it to hold the footprints. This short time is used to tell the children what they will learn or to summarize what they learned and to testify. Some may want to give a footprint with a hole for a doorknob that reads â€Å"I’ll Follow Him in Faithâ€Â� or inexpensive bracelets/wristbands with the theme like I bought at primarywristbands.com.

Station 1 - Christ studied the scriptures and was obedient to Heavenly Father. I can follow Him by doing the same. He developed faith. He prayed. He too couldn’t remember the pre-earth life because of the veil. If you have the sliding curtains in your building, one side could be the pre-earth life, then they are born (come to the other side of the curtain) and can’t remember. (In this station they paste or draw pictures of prayer or scriptures and the word â€Å"Faithâ€Â� on the footprint to represent how to develop faith while they are here on earth, because they can’t remember.) To add drama to this center, have lights on in the pre-earth side because Christ and Heavenly Father were there, but keep the earth side dark. We have to use faith because we can't remember. If you had something glow in the dark, a wristband, star, or even a flashlight etc., you could say, as we study, learn the gospel, and have faith in Christ we get a little light/knowledge growing. We are less afraid to take a step into the unknown (darkness) because we have faith in Christ.

Station 2 â€" Christ learned in the temple. We too will learn in the temple. They can pretend they are climbing the steps up to the temple doors. (With a glue stick they paste on a small picture of the nearby temple or using several pieces build a temple to paste on…foundation, walls, steeple, Angel Moroni, temple doors) You could sing â€Å"I Love to See the Temple. I’m going there somedayâ€Â�. Ask what they think they will learn in the temple â€" Show pictures representing the creation, Jesus is our Savior, say that obedience will lead us to where Heavenly Father and Christ live and we too can live there with our families. What ordinances are performed in the temple? Show pictures of Baptism for the dead, the Sealing of families… A group of six children could make a human pyramid to show how a temple is built from the bottom up like our gospel understanding, step by step, line upon line, precept upon precept.

Station 3 - Christ was baptized by immersion, I can follow Him by being baptized (here they can paste the picture of Christ being baptized or if they have been baptized, they draw their own baptism picture on the footprint). A maze made with chairs and tables in a darkened room might spice this center up. The several children come in and follow a leader who has a light or small glow in the dark object, star, wristband, key chain with l.e.d. light while the other children wait on the other side of the folding curtain.

Station 4 - Christ was resurrected and I will be resurrected too. (Paste on a small picture of the resurrected Christ or draw the empty tomb. I think that church distribution has a small p along card that would work great for this picture.) The children take the footprints home and can lay them out on the floor and walk along them. Families with several children in primary can make and take home a long path to walk on and remember to follow Jesus Christ.

Other possible topics: 1) Jesus was kind. Sing â€Å"I’m trying to be like Jesus. Play charades of kind deeds or acts of service or compion. 2) Jesus shared the gospel message with others. I can too. Children tell about a prayer of theirs that was answered. 3)Jesus honored his parents. He obeyed his Father and loved his Mother. Brainstorm together ways they can honor parents and strengthen their family.

Please post your ideas - we don't have our activity until March. Thanks.

Primary Program Preparation - Blog Entry

23 Jan 2007 01:06 PM

I agree this is a wonderful idea. During 2006 we gave music cds to the children several months before the program. This year however we decided to do the 2007 songs on a cd as the Christmas present for the children and teachers. What has also really helped my own children to learn and love the songs is to make a music video for them (or with them if they are older) using the Presentations Program and our family pictures and some pictures from the gospel art picture kit. I even learn the melody and lyrics as I have fun doing this with my children. My computer savvy son teaches me how to make it look great. This has turned out to be a good Sunday activity and my children love seeing themselves on the screen.

Primary Time: Primary Quarterly Activities - Blog Entry

23 Jan 2007 12:46 PM

Just a help that the presidency I'm in now learned from the past presidency - a Primary program practice on a Saturday morning that ends with a pizza party. This turns a necessary practice into a quarterly activity. It helps us limit the times that we are taking the children away from their families. When you schedule a child, you schedule a family. We want to help preserve some of the time a family has together, yet still give the children wonderful quarterly activities. After the practice in the chapel, they eat pizza in the gym, then they run and play until the parents arrive. We really need the extra practice in the chapel before our primary program, because our ever expanding ward uses every classroom including the gym and chapel during all three hours on Sunday.

Families - Do We HAVE To Be Together Forever? - Blog Entry

06 Jan 2007 12:32 PM

I really can empathize with you, however, recently my husband and our children had to be seated apart from each other at a crowded event. It seemed like one hour of torture to be able to see each other and yet not sit together as a family. This same thing has happened to me several times and each time I feel the same sinking feeling. Yes, I dread long car rides with all 7 of us. My husband says the pioneers crossed the plains. Then he adds, but they didn't sit cheek to cheek the whole way:)

Primary Time: Primary Theme for 2007 - Blog Entry

25 Dec 2006 10:35 PM

The primarywristbands.com site had more than 5 colors or glow in the dark. Since I couldn't decide and children are unpredictable, this was good for me. Both orange and blue! They were more than $.20 less than the others and should be here before the first Sunday in January. I called to get the better price and no shipping - anyone out there should too. Happy New Year! The online convience is so good for a mother of many like myself.

Primary Time: Primary Theme for 2007 - Blog Entry

22 Dec 2006 11:45 AM

Thanks Miriam. It is nice to have some reassurance, now and then. I hate feeling buyers remorse, so I'm usually overly cautious. I heard from two people who want to go in on it, so I am going to take the plunge and buy them. I do think it is a great gift choice. Three of my children are in primary, so I think I'll get several different colors, so each one can be their personal wristband. What color is your daughter's? Do you have a hot color to recommend?