Jesus Christ is The Perfect Example April 12, 2012

I LOVED this weeks topic for Sharing Time.  I found out quite late in the week that I was teaching and thanks to a crazy work/school schedule last week I literally did not get to start looking over the lesson until about midnight the night before I was to teach.  I completely dislike preparing a lesson that way, but I prayed much that Heavenly Father would help take up some of my slack where I was not able to modify the situation.  I read over the lesson before collapsing into bed and started trying to let my spirit and brain churn.  When I got up on Sunday I had kid activities for Easter to focus on first, but after they were happily playing with Easter treats and activities, I turned my thoughts to my lesson.  As I had read the night before, I had some images in my mind that I wanted to try to capture and share.  The first image I had was of candy – perhaps it was the Easter Bunny in me, but I knew those kids were going to have some serious sugar on the brain and I felt like it was a GREAT opportunity to use that to help them learn a priceless principle.  I made up these Treat Note and attached them to some wrapped candy and placed them in a basket under a cute cloth napkin.  At the very end of the lesson, right before dismissing the kids, I explained how much sweeter and long lasting the power of Jesus’ life and His death are in our lives than any sweet candy.  (A side note – I thought this part of the lesson prep would be especially important for the Junior Primary kids, but they were much more interested in some of the other parts of the lesson.  However, the Senior Primary this week struggled, but as I explained the idea of the sweetness of His gift to us and bore my testimony of the power that can have in our lives, they finally settled down and let the Spirit join the discussion.  I felt so grateful for the inspiration to use a candy teaching moment  – even if it ended up more important to a different group than I expected.)

OK – so I just realized that I started at the end again!  I tend to do that and I hope you are able to follow along in spite of my odd order.  Now I will try to go back and start at the beginning of the lesson.

General Conference Part 1 March 18, 2012

I am SOOOOOOO excited!  I got the thumbs up from Angela Roberts from scriptures4kids.com to post the activity pages I made up of the General Authorities using the fun coloring book images she has in her fantastic General Conference packets.  I made these pages for last October’s sessions.  My goal was to make one that was different for each of the 15 prophets, seers, and revelators.  I only managed to come up with 6 different ideas last time – I simply ran out of time!  (Not that it was a shocker to me that I ran out of time, but whach’a gonna do? I had to try  at least.)  I am going to post the 12 pages I made last time here.  I am hoping to get a whole bunch of my new ideas created today and up for this coming General Conference, but again, time is only but so abundant when I literally only have today and next Sunday to do anything about it.  For now, I am just SO excited that I can share these fun activities with you and I hope someone else’s kids can have fun with them.  I felt totally selfish last October when my kids and my cute nieces were the only one’s that got to play with these activity and coloring pages.

I am only posting the printable PDFs here, but I also have them in SVG format (I love to work in Inkscape!) and I would be happy to put them up if someone wants them.  I just figured PDFs are easiest for most people, so here you go!  (I have also put up one example in a PNG, so you can see easily the kind of activities they are.)