Age Group: Children

These ideas will be useful for engaging Children.

September 22, 2004
Resurrection

Items needed a glove Each of us are made up of two parts: a body and a spirit. You can see a body and feel it and it can move and talk and do all those wonderful things. You can't see a spirit, but it is also there. Can you see radio waves coming into […]

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September 22, 2004
Experiment Upon the Word

Decide beforehand which "theory" you are going to test. It could be something simple like theory of gravity, or something else that both you and your audience understand very well. I will use gravity for my example here. You say, "I am going to test the theory of gravity today. I have here some different […]

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September 22, 2004
Strength in Numbers

Items needed several uncooked spaghetti strands Offer one or two strands of spaghetti to someone in class and have them try to break it. Obviously it is easy, then offer them a package of spaghetti and have them try to break it. Much more difficult, if at all possible. Strength in numbers. This object lesson […]

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September 22, 2004
Read the manual

Items needed Obtain a harmonica or some other instrument that most folks will likely not know how to play. Ask someone to stand and play a specific church hymn on the instrument. (Be sure to pick someone who doesn't know how to play it.) When they reply that they can't, then ask them how they […]

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September 22, 2004
Holy Ghost Will Only Dwell in a Clean Body

Items needed a very dirty sock Take a sock ( an old one preferably one you don't care about getting real muddy), soak the sock in mud, get it real dirty and then put it in a plastic bag. Take it to your class and during your lesson ask someone if they would mind putting […]

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September 22, 2004
Jesus Christ is the Light of the World

Display the picture of the Savior and read John 8:12: "I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." You may also wish to make a sign that says "I am the light of the world" top help students focus on […]

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September 22, 2004
Families can be sealed together

Items needed two envelopes two sets of pictures of family members Get two envelopes; put a picture of the temple on one envelope. Put cut-outs (paper dolls? magazine people?) of family members in each envelope. Seal shut the envelope with the temple picture. All the while, talk about the one family going to the temple […]

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September 22, 2004
Bad habits are hard to break

Items needed a spool of thread Take a spool of thread and wrap the thread once or twice around the volunteer's fingers or wrists. Have them break the thread. This represents bad habits. When we first begin a bad habit like smoking, or even something as simple as watching an inappropriate t.v. show or using […]

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September 22, 2004
Linking with the past

Have one child stand at one end of the room and another at the other end. Then ask those seated how we can link the two without either of them moving? The way is for each of the children to link arms and then they can link the two children, to link those gone before […]

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September 22, 2004
Dirty Business

Items needed a bowl of mud Scoop out a handful of mud and ask "What would you do if a friend ran up with his arms full of mud? Do you move closer and hold out your arms and accept all that mud? Or do you say, 'No, thanks. I don't want that mud.' " […]

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