Love/Valentines

Idea for lesson on Love including Heart Maps and a service and valentines day planning .

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Jesus said love everyone

Family Home Evening Lesson

Opening Song: Children all over the world  Childrens Songbook #16

Opening prayer: Child


Lesson:

We recorded the opening ceremony of the Olympics to watch at a later time with our kids.
We thought it would be good to incorporate some of it to FHE

Talk about how God loves all children around the world. We may come from different countries, have different colour skin, speak different languages but God loves us all the same. He expects us to treat eachother kindly and love all people as he loves us.


Game
I printed some Flags of the World Bingo cards here . Using candy to mark the square when they see the matching flag and team marching in the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics.

Talk about how it is nice when people can choose to get along nicely with eachother. We want peace and kindness in the world and by getting to know others of a different nationality is a good way to do this.

Closing Song: Jesus said love every one Children's Songbook #61

Closing Prayer: Child

Treat: International foods

Pure Love

Family Home Evening Lesson
Love

Opening Song: "Jesus said love everyone" Childrens Songbook # 61

Opening Prayer: Child

Lesson:

Leading up to Valentines Day I like to make a little display on our Mantle and have a few FHE lessons On Love.

See previous years ideas here here and here

I wanted to focus on the pure love of Christ and Charity.

We will discuss these scriptures:
Matthew 22:35-39
Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt ^alove the Lord thy God with all thy ^bheart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy ^cmind.

38 This is the first and great ^acommandment.

39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt ^alove thy neighbour as thyself.

1 Corinthians 13

1 John 4:20-21
If a man say, I love God, and ^ahateth his ^bbrother, he is a ^cliar: for he that loveth not his ^dbrother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not ^eseen?

21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who ^aloveth God love his brother also.

I am going to challenge the girls to love someone a little extra whom they might not particularly like.

I will check with them to see what things they can do for someone whom they don't always get on with. eg. Classmates, their own sisters ;)  (eg share things with them, give a compliment, hold their tongue when they want to answer rudely back, invite them over, do a service for them)


Activity:

Make a Valentines Tree. I used small branches from my yard spray painted red.

You can add:

Pictures of your family
Little paper hearts,decorations
Slips of paper with service ideas you have done, or they could do for eachother


I cut out several hearts from felt. I told the girls I would leave them on the mantle and when they do a good deed around the house secretly (make eachothers beds or my bed, pack school bags, make a treat, wipe table etc) they are to leave a felt heart behind so the person knows someone has done something for them

Closing Song: "Love One Another Childrens Songbook # 136

Closing Prayer: Child


Treat:
Chocolate hearts
Cookie hearts

Love

Family Home Evening Lesson
Love

Opening Song "Jesus said Love Everyone"  Childrens Songbook #61

Opening Prayer: Child

Scripture:

Lesson: Mom

We started our lesson by rolling out a big sheet of paper with the word LOVE written in big letters in the middle. We asked 'who should we show love to?'  The children wrote and drew their answers all around the piece of paper.

Answers included :

Family, Mum and Dad, Sisters, Neighbours, Heavenly Father, Jesus, Cousins, Pets, Best friends, School Teachers, Primary Teachers, etc

We then made some tiny valentines/love notes on bits of card and pegged them to some string. We hung it on our mantle and I said any time you do some service or something kind this week, add another heart/note onto our string.

Activity:

make a Paper Heart Wreath

Play Hide the heart with a toy heart/softie

Make heart cookies/treats to give to family/neighbours

Make heart rocks

Make origami heart note holders

Closing Song Love One Another Children's Songbook #136

Closing Prayer: Dad

Treat:

Using a heart cookie cutter make fairy bread. Spread bread with butter and sprinkle with 100s and 1000's or pink and red sprinkles. Cut out heart shape using cutter.

Heart Chocolates

Love

Family Home Evening Lesson
Love

Opening Song: Jesus said Love Everyone Children's Songbook #61

Opening Prayer: Child

Lesson:
Who loves you? (mom, dad,sisters, brothers, grandparents etc)
How do you know they love you?

There is someone else who loves you to, can you guess?
Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love you.
How do you know that Jesus loves you?

Jesus loves little children. When other men tried to turn the children away, Jesus said to let the little children come unto him.



Activity:

we dried our hearts on a skewer

Make Salt Dough hearts. Either make then let dry, or make earlier and paint them for the activity. Use a straw to cut a hole in the heart and you can string it into a necklace or ornament to hang.
Make a Paper Heart Leis
Make Valentines Cards for your family

Closing Song: Love One Another Children's Songbook #136

Treat:
Heart shaped chocolate
Cookie cutter heart shape toast with strawberry topping

Showing Love

Family Home Evening Lesson
“Showing Love”

Opening Song: "A Happy Family" (Children's Songbook, 198a) 

Opening Prayer: Child

Lesson: Daddy

With Valentines Day coming this weekend, another lesson on Love couldn't hurt! Most of this lesson comes from the "I Will Love Others" and "I Will Love my Family" lessons in the new "Behold your Little Ones Manual."  It is a GREAT resource!

Display a picture of the good Samaritan. You can use GAPK #218. Open the Bible and tell the children that you are going to share a story Jesus told about loving others. Using simple language, tell the story of the good Samaritan. Below is an example:

• One day there was a man who was lying on the ground (point to the injured man in the picture). He was hurt. Two men walked by. They saw him, but they did not help. A third man came (point to the good Samaritan in the picture). He saw the man lying on the ground, and he helped him. He showed love.

Sing or say the words to “Jesus Said Love Everyone” (Children’s Songbook, 61) and do the actions below. Invite the children to join you.

Jesus said love everyone; (spread arms out wide) 
Treat them kindly too.
When your heart is filled with love, (put hand over heart) 
Others will love you. (hug self) 

Gather each child's favorite stuffed animal, doll or toy.  Ask each child to give their toy a hug and a kiss.  Ask each child to tell the toy that they love it.  Smile at the toy and offer to share a pretend toy with it.  Explain that these are ways that we show love.  Next have children show love to someone in the room.  Explain that it is ok to hug and kiss our family members, but with friends we should just hug (we have issues with kissing friends...).

Print and cut out these family figures and place them in a container. Have child pull one figure out of the container and identify what member of the family the figure is.  Suggest a way they can show love for that family member (by picking up toys, sharing, smiling, and so on). Invite them to pretend to do the action. Repeat this activity with each family figure.

Add new words to the song “Fun to Do” (Children’s Songbook, 253) to teach the children some ways they can show love for their families. For example, say to the children, “Let’s show how we can love Sister.” Sing “Sharing a toy is fun to do” and do simple actions. Other words you can use are, “Picking up toys is fun to do,” “Cleaning the room is fun to do,” “Giving a smile is fun to do,” “Helping my dad is fun to do,” and so on.

Suggested Activity:

Help children make paper hearts.  You can just cut them out of construction paper and help them decorate the hearts. When the hearts are done, read the following examples (or create some of your own), and ask, “Does this show love?” After each example, have the children hold up their paper hearts and say, “Love.”

When you help clean up.
When you say “please” and “thank you.”
When you share your toy.
When you help someone who is hurt.

You can also make extra hearts and throughout the week you can award a child with a heart when you see them showing love. You can tape them on the fridge to display.

Color this picture from lds.org.

You can also make these Valentine Finger Puppets.

Closing Song: "Love One Another" (Children's Songbook, 136)

Closing Prayer: Mommy

Treat: 

Raspberry Hearts from Family Fun

or Conversation Hearts!

FHE Lesson- We Love Our Prophet

Family Home Evening Lesson
We Love Our Prophet

Opening Song: “Stand for the Right” (Children’s Song Book # 159)

Opening Prayer: Daddy

Lesson: Mommy

We Love Our Prophet Gordon B. Hinckley
Show Picture of President Hinckley
Ask: “Who is this?” Talk about what our Prophet means to you.

Coloring Page: Color Picture of Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley

President Hinckley teaches us. He as given us 6 “B’s” he wants us to follow.
Be grateful. Say thank you when people are nice and help you. Also remember to thank Heavenly Father every day.
Be smart. Keep learning. Try to learn new things each day.
Be clean. Keep our minds and bodies clean.
Be true. Follow what our Church leaders teach us always be a good example.
Be humble. Being meek and humble keeps us teachable.
Be prayerful. Go to your Father In Heaven for guidance and help.

Sing: “Latter-day Prophets” (Children’s Song Book # 134)

Activity: Color and Hang the “6 Be’s Poster”

Closing Song: “Seek the Lord Early” (Children’s Song Book # 108)

Closing Prayer: Mommy

Treat: Fruit Crisp
(Better Homes and Gardens)

5 cups sliced, peeled apples, pears, peaches, or apricots; or frozen unsweetened peach slices.
2 to 4 Tbs. sugar
½ cup regular rolled oats
½ cup packed brown sugar
¼ cup flour
¼ tsp. ground nutmeg
¼ tsp. cinnamon
¼ cup margarine or butter
¼ cup chopped nuts or coconut

Preheat oven at 375º.

For filling, thaw fruit, if frozen. Do not drain. Place fruit in an 8x1½-inch round baking dish. Stir in sugar.

For topping, in a mixing bowl combine oats, brown sugar, flour, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Cut in margarine or butter till mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in nuts or coconut. Sprinkle topping over filling.

Bake at 375º for 30 to 35 minutes (40 minutes for thawed fruit) or till fruit is tender and topping is golden. Serve warm with ice cream or light cream.

***Blueberry Crisp: Prepare as above, except, for the filling, combine 4 Tbs. sugar and 3 Tbs. flour. Toss with 5 cups fresh or frozen (thawed but not drained) blueberries.
***Cherry Crisp: Prepare as above, except, for the filling, combine ½ cup sugar and 3 Tbs. flour. Toss with 5 cups fresh or frozen (thawed but not drained) unsweetened pitted tart red cherries.
***Rhubarb Crisp: Prepare as above, except, for the filling, combine 1 cup sugar and 3 Tbs. flour. Toss with 5 cups fresh or frozen (thawed but not drained) unsweetened sliced rhubarb.

FHE Lesson- Love at Home

Family Home Evening Lesson
"Love at Home"

Opening Song: “Love Is Spoken Here” (Children’s Song Book # 190)

Opening Prayer: Daddy

Lesson: Mommy

Love at Home:
Read 1 John 4:7-12, 16-21 and talk about these scriptures.

Explain that without love our home is just black and white. There is no color. If we love each other we love God and that brings light and color into our home. Color the “Love at Home” coloring page.

Song: “Love at Home” (Hymn # 194)

Activity: “My Family Loves Me” mirror coloring page. Color and cut out heart and place it on a mirror.

Make a list of 5-10 things you can do as a family to show each other how much you love each other and post it in a place that the whole family can see it and remember to make home a more loving environment.

Closing Song: “Where Is Love” (Children’s Song Book # 138)

Closing Prayer: Mommy

Treat: Blueberry Buckle

Blueberry Buckle Recipe

2 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. salt
¾ cup sugar
¼ cup butter
1 egg
½ cup milk
2 cups blueberries
½ cup sugar
1/3 cup all purpose flour
½ tsp. ground cinnamon
¼ cup butter

Preheat oven to 350º. Grease 9x9x2 inch baking pan; set aside.

Stir together 2 cups flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside. In a medium bowl, combine ¾ cup sugar and ¼ cup butter. Beat with an electric mixer on medium speed until combined. Add egg; beat until fluffy. Alternately add flour mixture and milk to egg mixture, beating on low speed after each addition just until combined (batter will be slightly thick). Gently fold in blueberries. Spread batter in prepared pan.

For topping: In a small bowl combine- ½ cup sugar, 1/3 cup flour, and cinnamon. Cut in ¼ cup butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle topping over batter; sprinkle with additional sugar.

Bake for 40-45 minutes or until topping is golden and toothpick inserted in center come out clean. Serve warm. If desired, serve with whipped cream.