Opening Song: Count Your Many Blessings
Opening Prayer:
Lesson:
For the Object Lesson you will need:
A small cup
Dish full of water
Spoon
Saucer to place under the empty cup
Ask the children to name blessings which they receive from our Father in Heaven. Every time they say a blessing they get to take a spoon full of water and put it in the cup. Quickly the cup will be completely full. My daughter said " Ummm Mommy the cup if over flowing" PERFECT. I then explained how this is just like our blessings from our Father in Heaven. He wants to bless us. He gives us so many blessings that they are overflowing as long as we are worthy to receive them.
I asked the children then what we have to do to be worthy to recieve blessings from our Father in Heaven.
Next we read 1 Thessalonians 5:18
How can we thank Heavenly Father for all the blessings he has given us?
We discussed through our prayers meaning we can pray and tell heavenly Father thank you. We talked again very quickly about the 4 steps of prayer. We also talked about how we can thank him through our actions, ie being nice to our brother and sister :)
Bear your testimony and make sure to ask the children if there is anything else they want to discuss or anything they dont understand.
Activity: I have decided to do a Thanksgiving Decoration for our FHE activity. I have printed about 15 different color leaves I will then let the children write some of the blessings they are thankful for on the leaves I will then tie the leaves together and make a swag out of them to hang across our mantle until Thanksgiving to remind us of all the things we are thankful for. Here is a picture I found on google of something similar to what I have in mind:
Dessert: Homemade Cinnabons <--- Link
This is the best recipe ever if you are making homemade Cinnamon Rolls. It is tradition in my family to have Cinnamon Rolls and Hot Chocolate in the winter A Lot!! So starting tonight we will be having these. YUMMY
3 comments:
Nice idea! Thaanks heaps. We don't celebrate Thanksgiving in Australia, but a great FHE lesson that reminds us of all we've been blessed with! We'll be using this one tonight, thanks again :)
What a great illustration that we are blessed to overflowing! Love your idea... And, thanks for the cinnabon recipe. Yum is right!
Forgot to mention on the phone today, that Becky and I have been using these FHE every week you've posted them! They are very cool, so thankyou, an keeep posting more!!! Lots of love XX
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