Title: “Family Home Evening Teaching Tools”
Exhibitor: Melodie Webb
Description: Creative, easy and inexpensive family home evening ideas
for all ages. Ideas shared on a FHE “Kit” so you will have all resource materials available at your fingertips.
How To’s:
The “Kit”
“Gospel
Words” Popsicle Stick Game
“I Love You” Game
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Essential
Scriptures
Family Home Evening manual
Gospel Principles manual
Church pamphlets
Hymn and Primary songbook
Gospel Art picture kit
“Mormon Ads”
Church magazines
Paper, pencils & supplies
Playing pieces
Family puppets
Footprints
Your plan/calendar
List of ideas
Softball/ring toss
Flannel board figures
Church videos
"Gospel Words" popsicle stick game
"Church Music" popsicle stick game
DIG
Family card games
“Bear Your Testimony”
“What Makes our House a Home" bingo
“My Hero", "We are Family", "For Our Profit and Learning”
“Principles Rule”
“Language of Love", "I love you", "Jesus Said Love Everyone”
Optional
Hidden object game
Building blocks
"Be Prepared" game
Family trivia game
"We Treasure our Testimonies"
Chart for assignments
“Gospel
Words” Popsicle Stick Game:
This game is just words taken from the Bible dictionary, and other Church materials, written on Popsicle sticks. The premise to the game is simple. You can use these sticks in a variety of ways.
1. Play a guessing game with them, where one person sees how many items he or she can describe while everyone else guesses.
2. Divide into teams. Remember that Family Home Evening should be a safe place where everyone feels valued. Try not to let competition ruin the spirit of what it is you are trying to do.
3. One person draws the clue for everyone to guess. I have seen that version called “Scriptionary.”
4. Use them as clues for the great old game of “Charades,” where you act out the words on the sticks for each other.
5. Use clay and try to mold the words for everyone to guess, “Sculptionary.”
The uses are wide and varied, and every different age of family can play it and enjoy it.
This game is meant to increase communication and foster testimony of the gospel. While “bearing” your testimony is not the same as a Teddy “Bear,” all members of a family will definitely benefit from this game. The pattern is included and the premise is simple – teaching family members what a testimony is, how you can share it with others, and express how you feel about different elements of the gospel. It also fosters great communication amongst your family. It is a must!
The game includes a small teddy bear, which has been nicknamed by a friend of ours to be “Testimony Teddy”--Smaller children like to hold him when they are sharing their feelings. The game also includes a plastic box full of wooden discs (wooden nickel style). Each of these round wooden discs has a little bear sticker on the back and a subject for sharing on the other side. There are playing boards that are shaped like hearts, and have outlines of the discs on them, so that they can be placed on the board after they have been talked about. (The playing boards can be made so that each person has one, or so that you have one large one that accommodates several discs.) This game helps us to discuss in a non-threatening atmosphere (like in front of a lot of people) what testimony is, and how we feel about something. Pause and answer questions all you can throughout the game.
How to play: Place all of the discs face down on the table in front of everyone. Choose, taking turns, one at a time, and share your feelings about the subject on the disc and then place it on the heart, with the subject showing. The first time you share your feelings about a subject on the disc, you must first “bear” witness of Jesus Christ and express your feelings for Him. This teaches that every testimony should bear witness of Him, and we should all have strong, personal feelings for Him. Keep choosing discs, sharing, and placing the discs on the hearts until all of the spaces are covered. We ALL WIN the game when “our hearts are full.”
Things you may wish to include on the discs (or paper – I have seen it done both ways):