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Teaching Kids About Grandparents-Family Tree File Folder Game & Family Photo Coloring Pages

September 28, 2009 By Michelle Barneck 8 Comments

Recently, my son came home from nursery with this.

Hilarious!! I totally laughed when he handed it to me. They are learning about eternal families this year. Seeing this on the fridge everyday made me realize that I wanted to teach my little one about his family and that though he has no siblings (YET. We are planning on having more. I don’t need anyone else asking when the next one is coming. How do you answer that question anyway?! Ugh.) he is part of a family that loves him. I wanted him to know that though our family is small he has a big family too.

I decided to start with Grandparents and Great Grandparents (seemed perfect since I came up with this on Grandparents day). I wanted to keep it simple at first because he has a TON of aunts, uncles and cousins. Don’t worry, we love you too!

I love the idea of a family tree and helping him to know that his Papas and Grandmas are Mommy and Daddy’s Moms and Dads. I made him a little family tree file folder game by altering the basic family tree found on Kid’s Turn Central.

I made two different sheets (printed on card stock and laminated using clear contact paper), one that listed everyone by their relation (mom, grandpa, etc) and one that listed them by name. This way he could start with the relation one and eventually grow in to learning all the names. I printed out 2 in x 2 in pics (they fit perfect on a 4×6 photo paper) of all of us to attach above the labels (forgot my sons pic, so he pointed to where he goes). Currently, we are using double sided sticky tape, but you could use Velcro.

Click thumbnails to download 8 x 10 file folder game.

Left is blank to personalize with names. Right is labeled with relations.

We had recently celebrated Great Grandma’s 85th birthday party, so this was a great chance to teach him about Great Grandmas. Unfortunately, this is the only pic we got of them together. Lighting pretty bad and the “scenery” leaves something to be desired.

Great Grandma went in to the hospital for some surgery so we decided to send her a get well card. I wanted something personalized in it, so I sucked the color from the photo, cropped, and softened it so it actually looked pretty cute. Then, I turned it in to a Great Grandma coloring page and let him color it. This was a great time to teach him who Great Grandma is.

We decided to send Grandma and Grandpa a little something for Grandparents day (a little late) and did some finger painting and sent them a card.

As one last little learning activity, I got these Todd Parr books from the library. They were so cute and he loved them! They are a hilarious and refreshing way to look at roles. “Some mommies drive minivans, Some mommies drive motorcycles.”

Images from: http://www.toddparr.com/books/

All in all, we had a fun week learning about parents, grandparents and great grandparents!

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General Conference Activities for Kids-Temple Sewing Card and First Presidency Coloring Page

September 24, 2009 By Michelle Barneck 15 Comments

LDS General Conference can always be a tough time for kids. It can be difficult to keep them quiet and reverent during sessions for two days. We can all use some ideas and activities to keep the little ones interested and engaged. I created a couple of General Conference Activities for kids.

First off, I made a temple sewing card by adding dots to a Salt Lake temple image from Mormon Share. I printed it on a piece of 4×6 photo paper so it would have some strength. Then, laminated it using clear contact paper. Then, I punched holes where the dots were.

I took a piece of 3/8 inch ribbon and rolled one end and taped it so it would be like the end of a shoelace. Then, I tied it to the bottom corner.

Then, I gave it the ultimate test with the little guy. He loved it!

Click picture above to print a 4×6 sewing card

I also wanted a President Monson coloring page. Many of the ones I had seen did not look much like him, or did not have him smiling. Many of the pictures are so serious and I wanted my little boy to see his prophet happy and full of love. I found this picture of the First Presidency from the press conference when President Thomas S. Monson was called and immediately fell in love it. I threw it in to Photoshop and played with it until it looked like something to color.

Click thumbnail above to print 8.5×11 page

Here are a whole bunch of other great General Conference Activities for Kids:

LDS.org Friend Activities and Conference Packet

Deseret Book activity packet

Sugardoodle’s Packet for 7-12 year olds

Conference Bingo

Conference Reverence Tents

General Conference Coloring Book

Conference Chase Game

I hope you have a wonderful conference next weekend!! I know I am looking forward to it!

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YW lesson 36: Importance of Truth Object Lesson & Handout

September 16, 2009 By Michelle Barneck 7 Comments

YW lesson 36 talks a lot about how truth does not change and teaches us how to know what is truth and what are Satan’s lies. To demonstrate this I brought a rock to represent truth and a balloon to represent Satan. I talked about how the rock is solid and does not change if I drop it or the wind and rain fall upon on it. Then, I got out the balloon to demonstrate how Satan will start small and catch us with something that does not seem so bad. Then, I blew in to the balloon once. My example was lying to your parents about knowing what time it was when you came in past curfew. I then continued to list things it could lead to (bigger lies) until I had a big full balloon. Then I talked about how eventually Satan’s bubble will pop and I poked the balloon with a pin.

I made the following Importance of Truth handout to go along with it. I used the little chart from the lesson and put a little rock next to God’s plan and a stapled balloon next to Satan’s to help them to remember the analogy.

YW lesson 36: Importance of truth handouts

Click thumbnail to print four to a page

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September Visiting Teaching Handout

August 31, 2009 By Michelle Barneck 6 Comments

Yep, it’s a day early. So go out there and get your VT done already. 😉 Don’t be a slacker like me and wait until the last week of the month. You know your sisters are going to want this pretty September handout!