Monday, February 2, 2009

FHE Ideas

Ok so this is another one of my resolutions is to start Family Home Evening. So those of you with small children, I would like to know what you do.
Thanks

5 comments:

Denise Stears said...

I got that new nursery manual called "Behold Your Little Ones". It has cute lessons in there.

Shay said...

we always start with singing book of mormon stories, we do the actions and it gets them in to folding their arms for a prayer. then we have family business and let everyone add in what they are doing throughout the week. then we look at a picture, from the FHE/church distributed material big BLUE box of pictures, and read what's on the back, ask questions have the kid repeat what we've said (a little of it) and finish! ALWAYS make a big deal about their good behavior. Kids should be able to sit for 15 minutes. Good luck! And what great resolution!

The Fast Family said...

we do basically exactly what shay does. We all pick a song to sing, have prayer, have family business, then a small lesson, then we have closing prayer and a treat afterwards.

jamie t. said...

We also use the nursury manual a lot. The lessons are short perfect for little ones!

Gina woodhouse said...

I was in one ward that had a FHE co-op with about 10 families. Everyone prepared 10 copies of one lesson topic that they chose and then they met every couple months to distribute and share the lesson ideas. You put alot of work into preparing the 10 "kits" but you walked away with 10 separate lessons.