Items needed pie pan half full of water pepper bar of soap Begin by having some water in the pie pan. Sprinkle pepper into the pan as you talk about how sinning can make us feel sad and unclean. Hold up the bar of soap and ask what the purpose of soap is. (Answer: to […]

Items needed A caramel covered onion A caramel covered apple We must examine closely what our decisions are based on to be sure that Satan isn't deceiving us by disguising something evil. Having the Holy Ghost with us as all times will help us not to be fooled by his traps. Prepare the apple and […]

Items needed Squares of regular paper pennies bowl of water Ahead of time, affix some pennies to some of the paper squares. Write things on the penny squares that are not good or cause us to sink... such as drinking alcohol, swearing, gossiping, etc. On the squares without pennies write things that will help us...such […]

This was an object lesson I used in my Young Women's Laurel class. I had our Stake Y.W. President who lives in our ward (but you could use the Bishop or someone else) step into class just after it had started. She had 3 gift bags. She gave one to me, one to the adviser […]

Get two volunteers. Give each volunteer 10-30 square children's wooden ABC blocks. (amount depends on what age you are working with, they will be stacking the blocks, so young children will not be able to stack as many) Tell the volunteers that they have an assignment to stack as many blocks as they can. One […]

Items needed hardened piece of playdough (left out of the container for several days) soft piece of playdough Have a volunteer come to the front of the class. Give them the hard piece of play dough and tell them to shape it into what they want. When they aren't able to, ask them why (it's […]

Items needed a ream of paper This object lesson works best for senior primary aged kids through adults. Choose a member to help you. I usually always choose a gentleman who looks like he is fairly strong. Hand him one sheet of paper and ask him to rip it in two. Obviously he will be […]

Items needed a postage stamp Teach your students that sometimes our trials help us. Just like a postage stamp we may be licked, stamped, trodden on etc but as long as we stick to our destination (our Heavenly Father), we will get there in the end. Just like a postage stamp we have to "stick […]

Items needed a batch of cookies made with correct ingredients but wrong measurements a batch of cookies made correctly As you start out the lesson let the girls know that you prepared cookies for them and pass them out. Pass out the batch of cookies in which you did not measure the ingredients. See if […]

Items needed dirty rocks glass jar of clean water Explain that the jar of clean water is our mind. Begin by putting one rock in. This could represent seeing one inappropriate movie or TV show (watch the dirt you couldn't see on the rock before float to the bottom). Add another rock, representing one pornographic […]