Explaining Death to Your Children

We had brought to our attention by a Facebook Follower, Megan, that she had recently had a death in the family and needed help explaining it to her 2 year old. Another great follower answered her before we got to her and I think that she had a wonderful idea. We will share her idea and Megan's story to hopefully help YOU if you find yourself in this same situation. We have also included some other ideas we've found. We hope this helps!

FHE: How to Pray

Hi! Remember me?? Yeah.. I know, I know I've been slacking in the FHE department.. BIG TIME! However, there is never a better time to try again then TODAY :) Right? I've found A TON of info for PRAYER LESSONS AND ACTIVITES. I've linked quite a few below and then also did a download for you! Hope your FHE PACKETS/BOX is coming along! Please feel free to share any FHE you are adding.. just email us sundaesecrets@hotmail.com and then we can feature your FHE here on our blog!!! Thanks for your help and support!!!

Something to "TALK" about

HOW DOES SHE does this amazing post once a month with FAMILY DINNER QUESTIONS! She says, "They are in a simple form to represent how simple getting to know your family can bring you closer together.

My family and I have been doing this for a year and I have learned and laughed as we answered some of the questions. You don’t have to have kids to do this…how well do you think you know your spouse? your parents? your friends?

Some of the questions are silly some are serious. It spurs on ideas and thoughts to make you and your family think."

Conference: Everything you'll need.

Here is a BIG list of things for GENERAL CONFERENCE!!!(From Sugardoodle.net) I picked a few that I really thought were great from this list and other places around the web!

CUTE idea for Conference Reverence Tent with a STORY that would be PERFECT to go in your GENERAL CONFERENCE FHE.. To download ALL ideas for this FHE kit click picture at bottom of post! :)

I can tell others about Jesus Christ

This handout goes with Primary 2 Choose the Right A Lesson 11. I got the little 'missionary guy' from BookOfMormonPosters.com. You can also use this handout for your "I want to be a missionary" FHE!

To download, click this:

I also used this image to make my little students missionary tags. (Just save this as an image to your computer.)

FHE: Work/Help in Home PLUS Super Cute "cHoRe" Charts

First, I want to start with the SUPER CUTE CHORE CHARTS! I got this idea from my friend Joni (I wish I could share,but her blog is private! Dang it!!) THANKS JONI! They were so much fun to make and even cuter to look at!

I decided that my 1 and 2 year olds were getting big enough to have "chores" around the house. I think they can have a little responsibility. I think it will help them learn that they need to start picking up after themselves. Which hopefully will be a life long skill they will develop!

Since they are so little, I thought of 5 easy things they could do (or already are doing) for their chores. 1.Make Bed 2. Get Dressed 3. Study (read a book/color) 4.Pick up Toys 5. Brush teeth & hair

Soooo... here is what I did:

1. Decide what you want your magnets to be. *they are the "check off" when a chore gets done. I picked flowers for Abby & Trucks for Jaxon

2.Glue flowers together with cute buttons (if desired) or assemble any other ideas that you have.

3. When your cute things are all assembled, glue a magnet to the back of each item. Let dry and tada they are ready.

4. Get together all the things you need for the board. A clipboard (Joni used a metal sheet, to hold on the magnets. I, however, couldn't find any at the store I was at so I got these for .94 and some magnetic strips), paper, mod podge, brush, scissors, etc..

5.Glue, using the mod podge, the paper onto the clipboard.

6. Then glue words/chores onto the paper using the same technique. (I think vinyl would work good too)

7. Next, mod podge over all the paper you just glued on to give it a nice finish. And so the paper won't get ruined in use. (Remember it dries clear)

8.Now, if you need, apply the magnetic strips for magnets in desired spots.

9. You are done! Put magnets on and admire your work!

So, when they complete a "chore" they can put up a flower/truck next to it to mark it off the list!

FHE

Now, I wanted to make this a family home evening, because I think teaching your kids to work and help out around the house not only is good for them, but it's good for the whole family's happiness.

I put together a lot of ideas for different lessons and stories, so that this can go into your FHE KIT and be a lesson that can change and work for you every time you use it! I didn't include an activity, because I thought doing some sort of cleaning in the house together as the activity would be awesome! For the files download below :) Happy Helping!!!

Jesus Once was a Little Child

I did this next handout for lesson 9 of the Primary 2 Lesson book. I skipped 7 and 8 because handouts are already included in the manual. Once again, this handout CAN be used for FHE. Here is the handout!



Along with this handout, one of the enrichment activities is to measure each child's height with a piece of string, and cut it so they can take it home. It goes with the ruler on the handout. Happy teaching! Download this handout by clicking below!

We Have Special Families

Ok, I put this handout together for my primary class for this Sunday. They can be used for FHE too! It goes along with the Primary 2 lesson 6. The thing I love about being a primary teacher is I get lots of ideas to do for family home evening for my YOUNG kids! So here is a preview:

This first one is for the child to draw a picture of his/her unique family!

This one is for older kids. They can think of an acronym for the word family! Like 'Fun,' 'Always there,' 'Musical,' 'Important,' 'Laughter,' 'Young and old,' etc.


To download the PDF files, click below!

Family home evening book....COVER PAGE

I am now officially inspired to organize my own family home evening book. So I have a folder with my very first FHE lesson in it! I decided I needed a cover page. I made 2...can't decide which one I like better! ??? Thought I'd share both. Click on the image you want and save it to your computer. Please let me know if it doesn't work and I'll send you the file. :)

FHE: Love One Another

This is the family home evening I am doing tonight. I've done it for the last few years now, and it's great to help us in the month of February to remember to show our LOVE for eachother!

Now, keep in mind that my kids are 2 and 1, so I keep it VERY simple. However, I have found quite a few ideas for the lesson for older kids and teenagers. There are a lot of ways that we can show our love.

The way I do this lesson, again becasue of the age of my kids, is very simple. I cut out hearts to put on our front window. (And it makes it look like I decorated for Valentine's Day too, from the outside) Then I put the names of people we love on the hearts (ex. Mommy, Daddy, Grandparents, Aunts & Uncles, Friends, Heavenly Father & Jesus, etc...) then on other hearts I put ways we can show our love to those people (ex. hugs, kisses, share, play nice, pray, read scriptures, serve, go to church, etc...) Then for the lesson, we just talk about just that.. the people we love, and how we can show our love to them. And we hang up the hearts on the window. I know brilliant, right?? LOL. All joking aside, my kids really love this! They remember doing it last year and they are excited to do it again! I love that it is easy and interactive. And what I love MOST about it is that we are reminded all month long to show our love to eachother!

You can also, sing a song, do a scripture, and prayers. And then of course do a treat! Stay tuned for treat ideas for the month of FEBRUARY!

Here is the link to download the few files I've compiled. Please feel free to use them!

(This is a .zip file. And it's my first time doing it so PLEASE let me know if the download doesn't work! After downloading you have to extract the files. There are 3 files. THanks!)

*Side Note: I've been wanting to make a FAMILY HOME EVENING KIT or BOX for a while now. So each FHE I post on here will have the lesson, activities, treat ideas, etc.. that you can either save on your computer in a special FHE BOX FILE or you can print them out and save them in a special FHE BOX.

I've wanted to have a place either on my computer or in a box, where there are many ideas to use for those nights you need a lesson quick. I've wanted to make it easier to do family home evening. And what better way than to have it already prepared for you! SO PLEASE, save these ideas either on your computer or in a file box to use over and over again!