FHE

All of our Family Home Evening lessons have greatly shortened and simplified as Koen left the sleepy baby stage and entered the active, energized toddler stage. I'm sure we'll transition back to a longer-lesson phase years down the road.

I love using the church's website for helping me create a lesson that works well for our family.

The Children's section of the site found here has many resources. I love the links that are on the left side. There are a ton of short videos that teach scriptures stories and other very important and basic principles. I love that they teach a full story my 2 year-old will sit through. Some are for "Little Friends" that are geared towards nursery/toddler age. You can of course access the material found in the "Friends" magazine as well. Many of those could be used to teach a lesson, and again, there is always a "For Little Friends" in the issue that are great for young ones.

For an example of what our Family Home Evenings are starting to look like. This was this weeks lesson:

Koen chose our opening song (this is his usual fhe responsibility), which was his favorite, "The Wise Man and the Foolish Man."

We watched a scripture video about Jonah that I found on the site, here.

I then retold the story with cut-outs that I quickly drew. This is one of them.

We quickly spoke about the importance of doing what God commands us to do, or else we will be in trouble; just as Jonah was swallowed by a big fish because he ran away. And just like when you don't listen and do what Mom and Dad tell you, you get in trouble and sometimes go into timeout.
I then bore my quick testimony of knowing that God will help and protect us if we keep his commandments.

We had a closing song by singing the "Jonah" verse of "Follow The Prophet", accompanied by the website's music section found here and then closed with a prayer and enjoyed some yummy cupcakes we made earlier. (FHE treats are actually rare for us though because it is usually late enough we're trying to get Koen to bed right away.)


I really appreciate the church's website and all of the many, many resources that are available for all sorts of things! There are so many resources for both teaching and personal study. It is a great site and I encourage everyone to look at it and use it.