Items needed: a picture of a straight road with hills (draw or find one) Lesson Here is another object lesson from my friend Brent Anderson, a former Seminary teacher: "This isn't so much of an object lesson, but the kids really responded to this. The straight and narrow path is, of course, straight and narrow, […]
Objects needed: carrot egg Lesson Here is an object lesson idea emailed to me from my friend Brent Anderson, a former Seminary teacher: "I took in a carrot and an egg. I asked [the students] what happened when they are boiled. One turns soft and the other turns hard even though the same thing happened […]
(Elaborating on a story by Wayne Dyer, quoted here [link now no longer functions].) Have the class, or your family stand up with the goal of jumping as high as they can. Maybe have a goal on the wall or doorway or something to measure how high to jump. In the first situation, no one […]
Tell the story of "The March of the Penguins". Talk about how the penguins had to endure together through the worst conditions in order to live. We as ward members will all go though hard times in our lives but if we can endure together our reward will be great. Like the penguins who's reward […]
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 […]
Talk about how when we only focus on the negative aspects of a person that is all we see, we can't see the good things about them. This is why it is dangerous to talk negatively about a person to others. This might form a wrongful negative opinion of that person in the minds of […]
Items needed candle wick candle wax and warmer We may start out as a neat individual (bare string) but for every trial we overcome (wax ) (Every time they say some trial the overcome or they overcame a fear they can dip their string into the wax making them a well rounded person with many […]
Items needed glass jar hammer gallon sized ziploc bag a beautiful glass sculpture, an identical unbroken glass jar, or other item Start off by showing the plain glass jar. Explain how this jar represents each of us. Then put the jar in the baggie. Then explain how life puts a lot of pressure on us […]
Items needed DumDums or other hard candy pebbles As our YW come in the room, I put a pebble in their shoe and a DumDum in their mouth and ask them to walk around the room before sitting down. After they are all seated, I ask them to tell me about their walk. Everyone of […]
Items needed a pencil Show the pencil to the class--teach that the useful, best part of a pencil is in the middle. And in order for it to be useful, something sharp has to wear away the outer covering. Let's compare that to the heart/spirit that is found inside each of us. In order to […]
