FHE Ideas

SONG 🎼:

“If the Savior Stood Beside Me” Add. Songs for Children.

OPENING PRAYER🙏: (by invitation)

SCRIPTURE 📖:

1 Timothy 4:12

“...be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.”

IN ACTION 💪:

Build a blanket fort, but only half way.

STORY 📚:

Read “Forts and Friendship” (Friend Magazine Jan 2018. 👉 Swipe & Read or search LDS.org & download the PDF)

TREAT 🍿:

Pop some Popcorn while you finish building the fort.

Eat Popcorn in your brand new FORT, while asking discussion questions, sing and say closing prayer.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 🗣:

How are you and your friends similar?

What could Callie have done if Marco hadn’t come to talk with her during the movie?

Did Callie or Marco know what their teachers would say to their request?

TESTIFY 💝:

Share an experience of having or being a good friend.

CLOSING SONG 🎼:

“Nephi’s Courage” CSB pg. 120

CLOSING PRAYER 🙏: (by invitation)

SONG: “Jesus Loved the Little Children” CSB pg. 59

PRAYER: (to be assigned)

SCRIPTURE:

D&C 50:41

Fear not, little children, for you are mine, and I have overcome the world, and you are of them that my Father hath given me;

IN ACTION:

Choose two family members to react to different imaginary situations. Ask one family member to have a good attitude and the other to have a bad attitude. (Some of the situations could include stubbing a toe, losing a game, being late for school, or getting a bad grade.)

STORY:

Read “Grumbling Peter” (April 2009 Friend) Click link and read it, has pics!

http://media.ldscdn.org/pdf/magazines/friend-april-2009/2009-04-20-grumbling-peter-eng.pdf

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

What helped change Peter’s attitude?

Did his family life change?

What other ways can help remind Peter that Jesus loves him?

TESTIMONY:

Share an experience and/or testify that remembering that Jesus loves us can help us to have good attitudes even when things go wrong.

CLOSING SONG: “I Feel My Savior’s Love” CSB pg. 74

CLOSING PRAYER: (to be assigned)

👍 For FHE Dinner/Treat just have a bowl of cereal! You knew that’s what I was going to suggest, so don’t be so shocked cause you know you want too. Maybe just half bowls of you’re worried. 😉

SONG 🎼:

“Search Ponder and Pray” CSB 109

OPENING PRAYER🙏: (by invitation)

SCRIPTURE 📖:

2 Nephi 4:15

“And upon these I write the things of my soul, and many of the scriptures which are engraven upon the plates of brass. For my soul delighteth in the scriptures, and my heart pondereth them, and writeth them for the learning and the profit of my children.”

STORY 📚:

Read “Scriptures for Spencer” (Friend Magazine May 2015. To Swipe 👉 & Read from my Instagram)

TREAT 🍪:

Oreos & Milk

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 🗣:

What things provide you comfort?

Do you have a special bedtime routine?

Do you have a favorite stuffy or blanket you sleep with?

How can, not following your routine affect you?

TESTIFY 💝:

Share an experience when the scriptures strengthened you.

CLOSING SONG 🎼:

“Scripture Power” CSMP 2006

CLOSING PRAYER 🙏: (by invitation)

FHE Idea: The Cleanup Crew

SONG 🎼:

“Nephi’s Courage” CSB 120

OPENING PRAYER🙏: (by invitation)

SCRIPTURE 📖:

1 Nephi 3:7

“And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said unto my father: I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them.”

STORY 📚:

Read “The Cleanup Crew” (Friend Magazine Jan 2016)

TREAT 🍪:

Cookies, of course!

ACTIVITY: Clean up a Desk or a Desk Drawer!

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 🗣:

What did Sarah observe about mom?

Why did it seem hard for Alicia?

How did Sarah make it seem easier?

What was Robert’s attitude afterward?

TESTIFY 💝:

Share a time when you triumphed after just trying?

CLOSING SONG 🎼:

“I’m trying to be like Jesus” CSB 78

CLOSING PRAYER 🙏: (by invitation)