Dr. Seuss printable

We are starting a Dr. Seuss theme week!  Here's a fun printable I am going to display all week.  It goes perfect with this FHE idea we are going to use tonight.

My body is created in God's image Sharing Time

 This is for February week 3 but would be great for Family Night too..  You can find the outline here.  Click on any of the images and save to your computer.  You should then be able to print them.

I am going to start the same way as the outline.  I am going to have a few kids take turns holding a mirror and describe what they see  (eyes, ears, mouth, and so on). Explain that what they saw was an “image” of themselves.

Then have someone read Genesis 1:27.

Explain that God has eyes, ears, a mouth, and so on, and that is why we do too. We are created in his image

Put this sign on the board

I found this fun idea here. "Invite a child up front and stand behind them. Hold up one of the pictures below. The child up front will call on Primary friends who can give them a clue to help them guess whats one the the picture behind them.  once they figure out the answer ask, “How does Heavenly Father want you to use or take care of this part of your body?”

M&M experiment (If you do this make sure you have enough for all the children.  Bring individual packs or let them take a few from the bowl on the way out)
1. Open bag of M&M's and put them in a bowl. Blindfold one child and then take one M&M out of the bag. Show everyone else in the family the color.
2. Hand it to the blindfolded child. let them eat it and have them guess which color it is.
3. Do this five different times, keeping track of how often they are right.
4. Switch players and repeat if time.
5. Talk about the colors on the outside of the M&M made no difference to what was inside. They were all the same, even though the outsides were different. Just like we are all Heavenly Father's children regardless of what we look like.

Each of us is a child of god. We are created in heavenly fathers image. And yet each of us is different. Some have blue eyes, some green. Each face is unique. We act differently too. Some are good in sports others music. We all have special talents. (found here)

If time let children draw self portraits and write why they are special (or you can send it home with them). Use the handout below. 

I liked how Sofia's primary ideas ended her sharing time. "People are all created differently, but no matter what.... we can be who God wants us to be!! We were created in His image."

February Visiting Teaching Handout

Here's a little handout that goes along with this month's Visiting teaching message.  I included two of my favortie quotes from the message.  What a great reminder for us to love and serve others.

To use right click and copy and save or print (it is size as a 5x7 print).  Or you can copy and paste into a word docutment.  Size and print.  I like to do this and fit two per page.

 

You can find the full message here.

Strengthening families Chalkboard print

When I ran across this quote I knew I needed it somewhere in my home.  I thought it would be a great time to make my own chalkboard printable.  You are welcome to print one for your home as well.  Click on the image and print or you can right click, copy and paste in word.  (If you need help please let me know)

 

The Christ Book

When I saw this post on Sew Dang Cute I knew I needed one.  It has 17 different topics about Christ with an explanation, scriptures, picture and song for each.  She has all of the pages ready to print and where to get the pictures.  My girls loved looking through it as soon as it was done and have requested we read one each night.  Its the perfect way to put the focus on the true meaning of Christmas. 

 They thought baby Reagan needed to see it too :)

 

organizing missing sock

I have a cute lost sock board but lets be honest we have way more then 4 missing socks in our house.  I normally put all of our extra socks in a basket that I could look through when I had some time.  However that rarely happens so most mornings we have to dig through the basket and hope to find a match.  I finally came up with a solution that works for us.  First I had to dump my basket and sort all of the socks by person.  The matches were put away and the ones waiting for a match were separated into individual bags (one for each person).

 The four bags are kept in our basket.  As I fold clothes I match up the socks from the dryer and any extra are tossed into the correct bag.  Every couple of days I sort through each bag (most of the time there are only 3-5 socks per bag!).  This makes finding a match so much quicker and in the morning when we are in a rush its a lot easier to pull out 1 little bag to look through instead of a whole basket.

Easy baby quilt

 

I used 2 charm packs (40 5" squares).

This cute girl helped me place them.

 I sewed the squares together and added a minky back.  Perfect for our new little one.