Jesus Picks His Disciples includes the printables for the dozen Disciples egg carton! An oldie but goodie post! poster This week Jesus is going to pick out His helpers. They are called Disciples, which means follower. (Apostle means one who is sent.) Scripture reference: Mark 1:1:14-20; John 1:35-51, Matthew 10:1-8; Mark 3:13-19; Luke 6:13-16 The Disciples included three sets of brothers: Simon (whom He had named Peter) and Andrew; James and John, Zebedee's sons; James and Thaddeus, sons of…

Fun activity for learning order of the books of the Bible for kids

I made my 7-year-old a new bookmark schedule for her study of the LDS New Testament Stories. She finished the Book of Mormon Scripture Stories reader, so it's time to move on. Because the stories are narrated on DVD, I decided to let her listen and read along with each story on my iPhone. Since this is her personal scripture study, I knew if she heard the narration, she would also learn how to correctly pronounce words she was unfamiliar with. Obviously if you have a younger child, you could…

Bible based object lessons are memorable, fun, and can teach character building. Here are my top favorite Christian object lessons, from teaching honesty to

Parables of Jesus Lesson Pack: The Divine Dozen

{Free} felt story set printables Jonah and the Whale

Five Scriptures That Will Help You Get through Almost Anything

Learning and Living the Gospel So we wanted to come up with a fun way to do a scripture chase. We found scriptures that fit with a Valentines theme... So we thought conversational hearts was super cute-- the girls worked together to match up the hearts to the scriptures and find the answers. We divided up the girls into 2 groups to race with each other They received the scripture reference then they had to read it out loud, run to the candy bowl, pick out the conversational heart that it…

Best Bible Geneology diagram ever Thought this was cool!

The Tower of Babel is a short lesson, so I created a cut & glue worksheet that can be used to discuss the things that we should build our life on that God wants. To go with the building theme, I have the cutest toolbox and tools for you! It can be used for any lesson and the kids are going to LOVE it! The people in the lesson wanted to build the tower as a monument to themselves, but God wants expects us to live for Him. Also, at the beginning of the lesson, I had cards printed with Hello in…

Today we talked about Ruth and Naomi and loyalty. You can download this Scripture Hero Chart here. We watch the LDS Scripture Video about Ruth and Naomi. We also watched this video and song that my kids seemed to enjoy a lot more. It is narrated by a child and is a fun video. Here is a link to this dot-to-dot and coloring page. We played a game where I told of scenarios and they had to hold up a card that described if the person was being loyal or disloyal. We traced their a foot of each boy…

Note: I taught our Elders Quorum class today, and was assigned the topic of the Mosaic Tabernacle as a Temple. Below are the notes and illustrations I used for my lesson. Review of prior lesson on the exodus: Children of Israel escape Egyptian bondage (Ex. 14) Moses leads them out Parting of the Red Sea, ... [Read more...]

Isaiah 9:1. “Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first He lightly afflicted the land of Zebulon and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more gri…

The twelve tribes of Israel

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