March 27, 2011
I took a take off of this cute little traffic light cookie that I saw awhile back on a cute blog somewhere out in the blog sphere...only there's were home made cookies on a stick with frosting holding the m & m's a top. Mine were simple store bought cookies dipped into chocolate melts (due to the lack of time this busy weekend, I did initially try to squish a popsicle stick in between the sandwich cookie vanilla cream in attempts to dip the whole cookie to coat in chocolate BUT too many of the cookies were cracking as I squished the popscicle stick in.) So these were simple and easy, Josh and I made them Friday in literally 10-15 minutes while we kept Brooklynne happy hanging on my leg stuffing the un needed colors of m & m's down her throat. Anyways, when I came upon the idea awhile back I knew that they would fit perfect into this week's primary outline for sharing time. I typically enjoy giving my own take on the outlines while of course making sure all of the important points and lessons are taught and discussed with the children. Today after a few lucky children got to drive (on Brooke's little scooter car) through orange saftey cones to a large stop sign, at the end we found some of the prophets direction and word strips to form new traffic signs and a new STOP sign to keep us safe in life to lead us from our modern day prophet: Thomas S. Monson back to Jesus and Heavenly Father. As they listened to six different primary hymns (each one relating to a different principal/directions from the prophet i.e. reading scriptures, prayer, temple, word of wisdom, tithing, and family home evening- the class with the direction (which was a picture) got to place it on the road on a selected blank road sign shape on our road which was made up on on the board with a picture of the prophet at the beginning and Jesus at the end of the windy road. Then they would place their word on the large stop sign that we turned around to form our new large prophet saftey sign which ended up being "Follow The Prophet Don't Go Astray." I had a good time with today's lesson and I only hope and pray that the children took something away from it and know how important it is to strive to always follow our prophets words. Here's the quote I added to the hand outs from the outline, maybe the idea can help or aid some of you readers to incorporate it into other lessons or even family home evenings some time.
"Just as road signs and traffic lights keep up SAFE and WARN us of danger ahead, the prophets directions are like these because Heavenly Father PROTECTS us and BLESSES us when we follow them."
