Come follow me 2025, D&C 23-26, March 17-23, Free LDS Primary lesson Helps and Prints.
- redwallace
- Mar 15
- 3 min read
Updated: Mar 16
The General Conference is on April 5-6; here is a link to my GC printable.
Just click on the image.
Ideas for Teaching Children
The Savior can lift me “up out of [my] afflictions.”
To learn about some of the afflictions or challenges Joseph Smith and the early Saints faced, you could review “Chapter 11: More People Join the Church,” in Doctrine and Covenants Stories, 46–47, or the corresponding video in Gospel Library. Then you and your children could discover what the Lord said to Joseph about his afflictions in Doctrine and Covenants 24:1, 8. You could also share with each other how the Lord helps you during difficult times.
I have a coloring book that covers this part of the lesson in my store.
Definitely re-create this experiment! If your young children need to move after, I have a movement activity.
To learn what it means to be “patient in [our] afflictions,” you and your children could re-create the experiment in the video “Continue in Patience” (Gospel Library). What does Doctrine and Covenants 24:8 teach us about patience? How does the Savior let us know that He is “with [us]” during our afflictions?
Scripture Hop
Lay these out on the floor, with enough room where a child could hop from one to another.
Demonstrate to the students how you would hop from one to the next as you say the scripture. Hop by the side of the scripture picture.
Hopefully, after each student has had a turn, they will be more familiar with the scripture and can say it with you.
Then, ask them what it means to have the Lord with us in our Trials.
Jesus loves “the song of the heart.”
After reading Doctrine and Covenants 25:12, you could tell each other about your favorite hymn or Church song—your “song of the heart”—and sing them together. Share with each other why you love these songs. Why is the Lord happy when we sing these songs? How is our singing like “a prayer unto [Him]”?
This is an old lesson, but it is great for teaching and learning about music. Just click on the image to take you there.
This week's Coloring book:
This week's gift tag.
Gift tags for General Conference.
This banner is also a week-long countdown, with pockets in the back that have quotes and movies to watch. Easter is April 20th.
My covenants with Heavenly Father bring me joy.
To understand what it means to “cleave unto the covenants” (Doctrine and Covenants 25:13), your children could take turns holding on to something as tightly as they can. Then you and your children could talk about how you “cleave” or hold on to your covenants. If needed, review with your children the covenants we make (see Mosiah 18:8–10; Doctrine and Covenants 20:37; and this week’s activity page).
Cleave unto the covenants which thou hast made. D&C 25:13, Baptism covenants, Free lds coloring pages
To give your children context for Doctrine and Covenants 25:13, you might point out that this is something the Lord told Emma Smith soon after her baptism. Why would this be good counsel for someone who was recently baptized?
This covers a lot of D&C 25. I think it is better for older students. I would actually pass out all the pieces and tell the students to look in D&C 25 for their matching verse. Then they have to figure out from there who places their puzzle first, second and so on.
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