Family Home Evening

Each week we try to have one night that we spend as a family. We have a lesson, activity, treats, and fun together. Last Fall a group of my friends got together and we made a year of Family Home Evening lessons. We centered them around the Primary theme for each month. Each person took a month and planned 3 lessons that went along with that theme. So we have awesome lessons for 3 of the weeks and then on the 4th week we can teach something specific for our own family. I was in charge of February and we have had fun doing the lessons. Last week it was about our bodies.

We started the lesson by standing at the top of the stairs and looked down at our pajamas laying down on the floor. We talked about how our spirits were in heaven and needed to come down to Earth to receive a body. I asked them questions like, "Could your body dance without your spirit in it? Eat? Play? All of which the answers were no. Then I had them go down to Earth, put their pajamas on and now their spirits were in their bodies and could do all kinds of things (which we had to try out for awhile). We also read from a talk given by Russell M Nelson called, "You Are a Child of God." 

Then we sang "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes" and "Hokey Pokey." We finished by tracing their bodies onto paper and they got to color them. That was their favorite part. 

I will try to share more of the FHE's that we do throughout the year...the ones that go really well at least!!

Allie's ponytail was flipped up so that looks cool and she was totally into this...making sure she matched her pajamas!

Katelyn's little buns on the top of her head made her look like a frog and she drew a couple squiggles and called it good.