Author: Jenny Smith

Jenny Smith is a designer who started blogging in 2004 to share lesson and activity ideas with members of her home branch Mississippi. Her collection has grown, and she now single-handedly manages the world's largest collection of free lesson help for LDS teachers with faceted search. Her library includes teaching techniques, object lessons, mini lessons, handouts, visual aids, and doctrinal mastery games categorized by scripture reference and gospel topic. Jenny loves tomatoes, Star Trek, and her family -- not necessarily in that order.
February 17, 2007
Restored

Items needed a tarnished item silver cleaner a bowl of water Lesson I used this by showing the class how the silver looked when it was tarnished. Then as I was talking about how the church was restored, I was also cleaning the spoon with the silver cleaner. It probably took about 3 minutes. Then […]

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February 17, 2007
Repentance (steps for)

Items needed: rocks feather labels Lesson Explain that the feather represents ourselves and place it on the kitchen scale. Add a pile of rocks on top of the feather. As you discuss each step towards repentance, take off a rock and label it as that step. When you have gone through all the steps, the […]

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February 17, 2007
Sharing the Burden of Work

After starting the lesson, I asked for a volunteer to read a passage from the lesson. I continued with the lesson. About half way through the lesson I told the same volunteer that I need her to separate and put a copy of the lesson handout in a sheet protector. I told her that I […]

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February 11, 2007
Cookie Dough

Items needed the ingredients to make cookie dough the tools to make cookie dough potting soil Lesson This is not for the faint hearted! It is a little expensive, but well worth the cost for the lesson that is learned. Arrange the mixer and the ingredients on the table in a way so that everyone […]

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January 27, 2007
Foreordination

Items needed something that your class will need during the lesson (pens, paper, a handout, etc) Lesson Tell a child right before going into class to stand up after the prayer and hand them out to each person without being prompted to. Then, ask the students why this person stood up and performed the action […]

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January 25, 2007
You watch what goes in your mouth so watch what comes out!

Items needed several items from the garden a very dirty piece of candy or a dirty boiled treat Lesson Earlier today I went into the garden to see what I could find. I collected a few things here in this margarine tub. Show the tub without revealing the contents. Pull out the items from the […]

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January 25, 2007
Persevere- turning a "failure" into a success

Items needed pen with no ink clock with no hands glue hymn book small slip of paper pad of post it notes Lesson Keep items hidden until required. The say: I've got some amazing inventions to show you. Look at this pen - can you see what's special about it? It never runs out, because […]

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January 20, 2007
Habitual sins are hard to break

Items needed thread glove attached to the back of a picture of Jesus Christ scissors Lesson Could anybody name some bad habits? biting fingernails, swearing, smoking, eating too much, driving too fast, drinking too much alcohol, gossiping, etc. Do you know anyone who has tried to break a bad habit and failed? I need someone […]

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January 13, 2007
Caramel Onion

Show the class the caramel covered onion. Really talk up the "apple". Tell them how delicious it is (they probably won't need much convincing.) Invite a volunteer to eat it and describe to the others in the class how good it is. At this point, depending on the volunteer's nature and how far you want […]

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January 13, 2007
Faith

Items needed crushed Oreo cookies seeds or a plant tools to plant a seed Lesson I set my objects on a table and tell the youth that I need a volunteer, one that will have faith in my instructions. I ask that the volunteer must be sure to follow my instructions explicitly and is not […]

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