Getting to Know The Prophet & The Apostles

Learning & Living the Gospel #4 ~ Read a recent conference address given by the prophet. Decide what you can do to follow the prophet, and do it.

This is the 3rd lesson about the Prophet and the Apostles.

I thought this would be a great activity for the kids to get to know the Prophets and the Apostles a little better.

I downloaded from Heather’s  website: www.simplyfreshdesigns.com. You can get the templates for your personal use by visiting her website.

I love it because each page has a photo of the prophet along with facts about them.  I used these pages instead of pictures so we can learn about each one as part of the activity.

It is a simple, just a few bullet points using facts from their biography's on the church website, so they can get to know them just a bit without being too overwhelmed.

They were reading through the cards and checked with the assigned brethren which they need to fill in the blanks on the worksheets.

Once everything is done, ... in which they could also add anything they would like that is not listed on the worksheet but they learned during they find the answers.

Once they have completed the worksheet, another exercise is the famous quote from each of the Prophet and Apostles.

I picked it out from the latest General Conference during April 2016.

Another follow up activity can be done is ask them to pick their favourite verses and read the conference address, choose something they can do to follow the prophet, and do it.

This time around is quite a lot of reading to be done. Both were felt a bit bored on this. May be next time, I can improve this activity by playing a games or sorts to make it more interesting.

‘The Matching Game’ is played by putting all of the cards face down, and then each child turns over 2 cards. If they match, the child keeps them. If they don’t match, the cards are turned back over. Then it’s the next child’s turn. This would train the kids start remembering where specific cards are, and start making matches.

Another would be whenever a child got a match, have them to read one of the facts. Then can play a game matching pictures to facts. This was a little harder.

Another one can be showing a short video with brief clips of each apostle talking, and see if the class can name them. Hopefully I can play with them next time.