Prayer Help

Our Family Home Evening lesson Monday was centered on helping our 2 year old learn to say prayers on his own. He loves to pray, and wants to play at every meal or any other time we are saying a prayer, but he always wants us to tell him what to say.

We made two posters, brainstorming ideas of things he could tell Heavenly Father he is grateful for and then things he might ask for. One of us would come up with an idea and I'd try to draw a picture to represent the idea:


We've seen a great improvement in Isaac generating the words for his own prayers, although he still often wants help.

If I were to do this again, I'd draw some pictures as well as use cut out from old church magazines. (Especially pictures of Jesus, the prophet, etc.)

PS: Did you know that the Friend magazine has online activities? These have become a favorite Sunday activity at our house!

A Year of FHE Lessons for 2009

One of my old mission companions emailed me a collection of FHE lessons and activities for 2009. They follow along with the Primary theme for the year, which is My Eternal Family. The lessons are great for kids and come from the Friend and other Church resources. The Lessons are easy to use and include an agenda for each lesson as well as activities and often coloring pages, mazes, etc. to support the lesson. I don't know how to create a link from this web site to the book, but if you're interested, I'd love to email it to you. Just send me an email at jltreasure@gmail.com, or leave a comment below.
It is a 131 page word document, so kind of a large file! :) But it would be a great resource to print and bind, or just print off lessons as your family uses them.

FHE Ideas

This blog has some great short lesson ideas (for short attention spans) as well as activities and links to pictures to use for Family Home Evening Lessons.

The Church's FHE website is also a great resource for lesson ideas. I like how they even have activities linked to the Faith in God, Duty to God and Personal Progress programs (for when our kids are a little older.)