Showing posts with label Book of Mormon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book of Mormon. Show all posts

Thursday, March 20, 2025

Easter Coloring & Activity Book

Here is an Easter Coloring & Activity book that children and adults will all enjoy. We will be passing them out to everyone at our Ward Easter Picnic. 


Click here to download: BOOKLET PDF FILE: The booklet should be printed on 8.5x11", double-sided, and flip on a short edge. Fold in half and staple with a long-reach, book stapler. Pages are numbered to help keep them in order.

.PNG files of each page are provided below.






If you like this Easter Coloring & Activity Book, let me know in the comments. I would love to hear any feedback or ideas for next time. Tell me how you are using it and what y'all think of it. Thanks!!

NOTE: I am not able to translate this into other languages as there are word activities that would not translate. 


Attributions:

I am offering this download for free, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND


Saturday, January 25, 2020

Book of Mormon Stories Primary Activity


Our Stake Primary wanted to start the year off getting the children excited to learn about the Book of Mormon. The activity was a huge success! We kept the children moving and busy with short classes, crafts and fun activities at the end.

We planned for 100 and had about 75 children attend.

INVITATIONS & POSTERS:

SETUP: I find it is always helpful to have a map and instructions for number of tables and chairs that are needed. That way, I can hand it to the helpers setting up and they know exactly what is needed.

ACTIVITY SCHEDULE:

9:00       Divide into 5 groups with colored hand stamps
9:15       CHAPEL: Welcome, Prayer, Talk by Joseph Smith about finding the plates, Testimony from Stake Presidency

Classes - 20 minutes each. We had brethren from the stake dress up as Book of Mormon characters (pictures coming soon) and tell their story in first-person point of view. Then adult helpers did a craft with the children.

Story: Brother of Jared
Craft: Jaredite Barges (2 bowls stapled together with a door and glowing rocks inside.)

Story: Nephi
Craft: Liahona (Decorated gold Christmas ornaments with stickers and jewels. There is a toy compass in the ring on the bottom.)


Story: King Benjamin
Craft: Tower (Built out of popsicle sticks and glued with glue gun)


Story: Ammon
Craft: Missionary Formula Card (Decorated cards with points from Alma 17-18)


Story: Moroni
Craft: Title of Liberty (Wood dowel with torn fabric.)


We had a 10 minute break between Classes 2 and 3 where we served Rice Cereal Treats and let them get drinks and use the restroom.

11:30     CULTURAL HALL: Book of Mormon Games - 8 stations
1.  "Amalickiah's Poison Darts" Blow darts into boxes with picture of Amalickiah



2.  "Ruins of Ammonihah" - Blow a ping-pong ball through a wood maze.



3.  "Samuel the Lamanite" - Knock Samuel off his wall (with paper arrows)



4.  "Waters of Sebus" - toss arms (made of nylons and stuffing) to 2 partners who will try to catch them in a towel.



5.  "Characters of the Book of Mormon" - matching game



6.  “Nephi’s Bow” – String a bow and shoot an arrow at stuffed animals.



7.  “Laban’s Sword” – Use sword to gather up cups (Lamanites).



8.  “Tower of Babel” – Stack plastic cups as high as they can.



After each class we gathered the crafts from each room and put them on tables in the Cultural Hall by colored group, so all the kids from that group only had to search one table for their crafts. These tables were setup by the doors so they would pick up their crafts as they left. We also provided plastic shopping bags for them to carry their crafts home.

We also included this letter to Parents so they would know what their children learned and incorporate their visual aides in their family scripture study.


DOWNLOAD my files for this activity. If you like this activity, let me know in the comments. I would love to hear any feedback or ideas for next time. Tell me how you are using it and what your kiddos think of it. Thanks!!



Saturday, April 28, 2018

I Hope They Call Me On A Mission

Stake Primary Missionary Activity


Poster - Printed 11x17" and mounted on black poster board, cut in half.


Mission Call Invitation - Printed 2-up on 8.5x14", 2 sided, cut and folded.


3:45pm - Check-In

Sign-in, receive name badge and Passport, sit in chapel and watch videos.
Name badge has a colored dot to assign each child to a group.


Passport: Each page corresponds to a class and the returned-missionaries teaching that class.




4:00 Welcome (In Chapel)

Opening Song/Prayer
Talk on Missions by member of the Stake Presidency

 

4:20 Airplane

Have children file in to the overflow. The members of the Stake Primary Presidency acted as flight attendants. Pass out bags of Pretzels for in-flight snack.

Badges - Laminated


Posters on Doors (11x17")


Airplane Windows (Hung on each side of the overflow)

Flight Script: Read by Captain from microphone and heard over the speakers in Overflow.

Good evening passengers. This is your captain speaking. On behalf of the flight crew we welcome you aboard Devine Airlines, Flight 249 with non-stop service to the Future Missionary Training Center. 

While you are enjoying your in-flight snack, please direct your attention to the flight attendants as we review the preparedness procedures. 

(Hold up picture of seat-belt over heart) If you haven’t already done so, please stow your luggage underneath your seat. Please take your seat, fasten your seat belt and remain reverent. Make sure your heart, might, mind and strength are in the upright and locked position.

(Hold up picture of CTR shield) As you take off on your missions, you will experience a Spiritual Lift. Choosing the right gives you continual lift. It keeps us moving forward and enables us to rise above the world, where we can see clearly how to return to our Heavenly Father.

(Hold up picture of compass) We'll be traveling at an altitude of 35,000 feet and may experience some minor turbulence. In the event the winds of temptation take us off course, your spiritual navigator, the Holy Ghost, will provide constant promptings about how to correct your course. If you listen carefully, he will guide you.

(Hold up picture of scriptures/prayer) In the event of a sudden drop or change in your testimony, stay calm and read the instruction manuals – the scriptures – then get on your knees, bow your head and start praying. 

Thank you and enjoy your short flight.

-------------- short break (collect trash) ----------------

Good evening again passengers. We are now landing at the Future Missionary Training Center. You have been given a colored dot on your name badge. For your safety, please remain seated until your color is dismissed.  Please check around your seat for any personal belongings you may have brought on board and take them with you.

On behalf of Devine Airlines and the entire crew, we’d like to thank you for joining us and we are looking forward to seeing you again in 18 to 24 months. Enjoy your time at the FMTC!

Children are dismissed by color.

4:30 - 6:00 Classes

10 minute classes - 5 min. to talk about their missions and 5 min. to teach topic.

Letter to Teachers/Companionships:

Class: Saving Up - Learn how to budget and save money. Discuss why it is important to faithfully pay our tithing and how Heavenly Father blesses us when we do (see 3 Nephi 24:10–11). Pay your tithing and begin saving for a mission.

Class: Personal Study
- Mark these verses about the Holy Ghost in your scriptures: John 14:16–17, 2 Nephi 32:5, and Moroni 10:5. Discuss ways the Holy Ghost helps you.
Read D&C 88:118. Discuss what it means to “seek learning, even by study and also by faith.” Improve your personal study habits by doing such things as learning how to choose and read good books or being prepared for school each day.

Class: Citizenship - Read the twelfth article of faith. Discuss what it means to be a good citizen and how your actions can affect others.

Class: Letter Writing - Write a letter to a <missionary> teacher, your parents, or your grandparents telling them what you appreciate and respect about them.
Signs of the current missionaries from our stake so they can choose who to write to.


Class: Proselyting - Give a family home evening lesson on Joseph Smith’s First Vision (see Joseph Smith—History 1:1–20). Discuss how Heavenly Father answers our sincere prayers.

Class: P-day activities - Learn to sing, play, or lead a song from the Children’s Songbook. Teach or share the song in a family home evening or at Primary. Discuss how developing talents helps prepare us for service to Heavenly Father and others.
AND
Sew a button

6:00 - Dinner

Dinner: Little tastings of foods from different countries that kids will eat.
  • Mexico – Taquitos
  • Italy – Spaghetti
  • South America – Rice & Beans
  • Philippines – Pineapple, Mango & Banana Salad
  • France – Chocolate Mousse

Centerpieces: 8x10" frames