I Am a Child of God and Can Be Like Him Someday

Please forgive my absence in December! It was crazy!

SONG: https://www.lds.org/music/library/childrens-songbook/i-will-follow-gods-plan?lang=eng

Have a bag with the following items inside and be ready to discuss how each item shows us Heavenly Father loves us:

• tree or bush branch or flower...something from this earth (represents the Earth and how it was created for us to live on)
• suit tie (represents church and how He gave opportunities to go to church)
• picture of Christ (talk about how He gave His Son to suffer in the garden and die on the cross so we can return to Heavenly Father)
• scriptures (He gave us the gospel to learn and teach us to be happy)

Then explain that Heavenly Father loves us and we are His children.
Have your child match the Adult animals to the Children animals using this printout:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0By-8pEe8O7e5MGQ2M2JhYWUtYmYyOC00MDQ3LWE5NjAtN2Y4NTNmZmZjNDNl/edit?hl=en&authkey=CO-npkY

(If you have time, try to get a baby picture of yourself and an adult one to include as well)

If you can't pull it up through that link, try getting to it from this one: http://countingcoconuts.blogspot.com/2011/05/may-pdfs.html

Explain we can all grow up and be like Him just like babies grow into adults! Ask what we can do as children of God to grow up to be like Him...

Share our toys
Be nice to family members
Obey parents and Heavenly Father
Talk to someone lonely
Don't kick, stomp, or destroy things
Share the gospel
When old enough, go to the temple
Pray
Read our scriptures
Tell the truth

The Fall

Maybe sing "Head Shoulders Knees and Toes" to begin. After the prayer, tell the story of Adam and Eve. We have quite of few Baby Bible book hand-me-downs, so finding pictures to go with it will be easy tomorrow.

I think the lessons suggests that you draw 2 circles and explain one is the Spirit World and the other is Earth. We were in the Spirit World and when the fall happened, it was a good thing so we could come to Earth!

Then explain how by coming to Earth, we gained our physical bodies. The teacher had a little spinning wheel with different parts of your body. When the spinner landed on one of the parts, the child had to say what they could do!

I just traced around my Chutes and Ladders spinner, made the drawings, put a hole through the middle, and cut on the line between the hands and nose to then just slide it on over the game spinner.

Here is a list to prompt your little one if needed:

Hands-greet someone with a handshake, make food, draw and color, type on the computer, play board games, play a musical instrument, hug

Feet-stomp, walk, run, dance, jump

Knees-bend, (pretty much everything for feet, for if you tried any without your knees, you couldn't!), pray, crawl, swing, climb on the playground, sit

Mouth-talk, say nice things, tell when you are hungry

Eyes-see God's beautiful creations, read, look at art and pictures

Ears-hear, "magical sound of things," know what your friends and family are saying, music/songs

Brain (mind)-homework, interpret senses, remember the alphabet

Nose-smell flowers, cookies, stinky diapers!, perfume/cologne

Afterwards, maybe you can practice some of these. Like bring out some fresh cookies and smell them. Use your mouth to eat them. Use your knees to bend down and your feet to jump up. Shake hands, look at family pictures, etc.