I Know, I Know

I know I am not the first mom to think, Wow, my oldest child is a Sunbeam in primary, or I have a toddler, and our family really needs to start having actual FHE lessons! But what kinds of things can we do with their level of intelligence and attention span?

I've done research on Pinterest and Sugerdoodle and found many moms with their own blogs saying the same things. I like some ideas, and others not so much, or at least not for my kids' ages (1 and 3). So I am putting together my own years worth (and possibly more) of FHE lessons. I have decided to reiterate and solidify what my son is learning in Primary Sharing Time (since I am there because I am the music director). There are some really great ideas from our Presidency and I think that for my 3 year old son, it will help him learn to go over what he learned the day before again.

For example, last week they learned about the Creation. The teacher had large numbers colored like what happened on the seven days of creation. For example, the 3 had the bottom half of it colored blue, for water. And then hidden in the room were things to go with the numbers. As she read Genesis, each day of creation the children were to put the matching items by the numbers. (Cotton for clouds-day 2, cow-day 6, fish and birds-day 5, rock-day 1, etc.)

So the next day, I had my son color with me. Each page I told him what we needed to draw, then I put the numbers on top. For FHE, we sang "I Know My Heavenly Father Loves Me." As I put up the pictures one by one, I tried to explain each one, reminding my son who created everything for us.
 

Then, I left them up for the week to help him keep the lesson in mind!