Category: Family Home Evening

Family Home Evening Resources

I was asked to give a presentation at a Relief Society meeting about Family Home Evening to give some tips and tricks for making it meaningful and easy with young kids. I thought I would share with you here what I shared with the sisters in my ward in case anyone from my ward didn’t get a chance to come to our activity, or if it would be helpful for other friends. I know that I shared the experience in the first paragraph in this post too, but it was applicable here so I hope you’ll forgive the repeat. The rest of the content should be new 🙂

Before this most recent General Conference I was struggling with feelings of inadequacy as a mother and I wrote down a few questions that I was hoping to have answered during the conference. This is one of the questions I wrote – “How can I best use my time with the many demands placed thereon? Freelance work, housekeeping, motherhood, callings, education, blogging, reading, socializing children etc. How can I keep from being completely overwhelmed and truly accomplish things? Or do I need to simply embrace the chaos?” In the second talk of the conference Sister Linda S. Reeves shared this experience –

Some of you have heard me tell how overwhelmed my husband, Mel, and I felt as the parents of four young children. As we faced the challenges of parenting and keeping up with the demands of life, we were desperate for help. We prayed and pleaded to know what to do. The answer that came was clear: “It is OK if the house is a mess and the children are still in their pajamas and some responsibilities are left undone. The only things that really need to be accomplished in the home are daily scripture study and prayer and weekly family home evening.”

A friend recently cautioned, “When you ask the sisters to read the scriptures and pray more, it stresses them out. They already feel like they have too much to do.”

Brothers and sisters, because I know from my own experiences, and those of my husband, I must testify of the blessings of daily scripture study and prayer and weekly family home evening. These are the very practices that help take away stress, give direction to our lives, and add protection to our homes. Then, if pornography or other challenges do strike our families, we can petition the Lord for help and expect great guidance from the Spirit, knowing that we have done what our Father has asked us to do.

Nothing could have been more applicable to my situation than that was. I felt so much comfort that I only needed to really worry about those three simple things in order to be doing what is most important as a mother. Family prayer, family scripture study and family home evening. Of course, family home evening can sometimes be a bigger struggle than it might sound so I was asked to share some resources with you on how to make it easier. So, first of all –

K.I.S.S.: Keep It Simple Smarty!

Family Home Evening was not instituted to stress you out. The point is to gather your family together and spend time together learning and loving one another. Don’t make it harder than it needs to be! Watch a Mormon Message together on YouTube, play a game, even just sit in the same room and let your kids do homework together. Find what works for your family!

I want to walk you through really quickly a “typical” FHE in the Hansen household –

We gather the kids together. Pull up a hymn on hymns.lds.org and sing along with it. Pray. Quick lesson picked from A Year of FHE. Another song. Prayer. Oreos. Bedtime.

Oreos are the most important part of our family home evening, the boys don’t recognize it’s FHE without Oreos. That’s it. Sometimes I’ll put together my own lesson or we might do something else, but we have short attention spans. The only part of that whole equation that requires much effort (beyond wrangling the kids of course) is picking a lesson from A Year of FHE, but then I usually just print it out and read it.

I think the most important part of doing a lesson is picking something that really applies to your family’s current situation. If you have a child struggling with obedience or tattling or something like that, then FHE is a great time to teach those principles. But my mom warned me, don’t always pick just the things your kids are struggling with, or else they’ll just feel picked on and not want to come. Lessons about the season (i.e. Christmas, Easter, St. Patrick’s Day) are great, or if you can include something that goes along with the month’s theme for primary it’s a good reinforcement.

So here are some of the resources that I really like for putting together a family home evening:

Church Website – The church has put together an awesome page that has links to the gospel art book, the Family Home Evening Resource book, videos, music and teaching helps. It’s a great place to go to get started

Mormon Messages– When you want a super easy lesson I definitely recommend just picking a Mormon Message and playing that for your kids and calling it good. They’ll hold their attention well and have fantastic messages. Easy, peasy. Done.

A Year of FHE – This is my *favorite* FHE resource. This lady put together FHE lessons and posted them to her blog every week for 3 years. They are fantastic. She has lessons on a lot of different topics. Most weeks I will open up her blog and then scroll through the topics on the right side of the screen, pick one, print it and teach that. She also has hymns selected to go with her lessons as well as a scripture. The lessons are so well written out that you can generally just read what she’s written, show some pictures (if you want) and then bear your testimony where she indicates. I can’t say enough about how much I love her website.

Chocolate on My Cranium – If your kids really do well with visuals I highly recommend this website for her flannel board stories. She took all of the flannel board stories from the Friend and colored them in so that you can just print them out, cut out the pieces and tell an interactive story. If you live nearby, my sweet sister-in-law put together a binder with all of these lessons printed out and ironed all of the characters onto felt so that we had easy FHE lessons for a year. It was one of the best Christmas presents anyone has ever given me. We’ve gone through all of those lessons now though so if anyone would like to borrow any of the lessons feel free to come by and borrow them!

Sugardoodle – We all love Sugardoodle. They have so many cute ideas! They’re getting ready to re-do their website in the next month, so I don’t know if this will remain how to get to their FHE lessons, but for now if you go to their home page, click on the “Other” tab there’s an option for “Family Home Evening Index”, and there are a ton of great FHE ideas there.

My FHEs – Of course I have to throw in my shameless plug for my own website. I’ve put together a few different FHEs when I had something that I really wanted to teach my kids but couldn’t find *quite* the right lesson out on the web. I’ve been trying to post them to my website so that other people can use them too. I have lessons about being a missionary, a general conference preparation lesson (we do this one twice a year just before conference), saying sorry, and even an Angry Birds lesson about teaching kids how to control their emotions (that one gets requested often). I’ve tried to follow the “A Year of FHE” format and include an opening and closing hymn that goes with the lesson, an easy to follow lesson outline and a predefined spot to bear your testimony. There aren’t a lot of them, but I love to see people use them!

My one piece of advice if you use the lessons that people post on their blogs is to just leave them a comment to say thank you for their time. I know, at least that the lessons I put together, it usually takes me the better part of a day to complete them and it means a lot to me when someone will comment even a simple, “great lesson, thanks!”

I promise that if you make Family Home Evening a part of your family’s weekly routine you will see the blessings in your family. It will help draw you closer together and strengthen you and your kids against the difficult trials that might come against you.

10 July 2014
Saying Sorry FHE

One of my Facebook friends posted a link to this article called A Better Way to Say Sorry. With a two year old and a five year old at home apologizing is something that I find we are doing FREQUENTLY, so I decided to read the article. It was simple, but brilliant! Her intro – where she goes through what it’s like to try to get kids to apologize, and how you almost never feel like you’ve gotten them to do so adequately – is the story of my life. Seriously, I couldn’t have written it better myself. The author goes on to talk about a seminar she went to where she learned the proper breakdown for an apology and how she applied the principles in her classroom.

I decided almost immediately that it was something I wanted to implement in our home. So of course, I had to make it into an FHE lesson. I haven’t yet used this in our home because today was a long day and I felt we would be better served by having FHE on Tuesday instead of Monday this week, but I thought I would share what I came up with. I would recommend reading the article that I linked to above so that you can get a good feel for her methodology before teaching this lesson. However I think you can probably teach it just fine just from the outline I’ve provided. Hopefully this works as well as described! I’m excited to facilitate more effective repentance in our home, and hope it works well for you too 🙂

I’ve provided in this lesson an outline as well as a printable that you could put on your fridge to remind everyone during the week. My printable is nothing fancy, but I think it will get the job done.

Saying Sorry Printable
Saying Sorry FHE Outline

Oh and I have to give a shout out to my amazing husband Eric for the treat idea. I was trying to come up with a treat that would go along with repentance, but wasn’t too hopeful that I would come up with anything. On a whim I decided to ask him if he had any ideas and he almost immediately came up with Sour Patch Kids. If you don’t understand why that was a brilliant treat idea you should probably see this Youtube video:

8 April 2014
St. Patrick’s Day FHE

Since St. Patrick’s Day was on a Monday this year I was very interested in finding a way to incorporate the holiday into our Family Home Evening. A couple years ago I had read an article someone posted on Facebook called Saint Patrick: Worthy to be Called a Saint that changed my perspective on St. Patrick’s Day completely. I’d always thought that it was a day to celebrate leprechauns, wear green and eat corned beef. It had never occurred to me that it was of course a religious holiday celebrating a Catholic saint. I bet the real St. Patrick just rolls in his grave every year when Americans celebrate his life by perpetuating pagan superstitions (the exact thing he devoted his life to dispelling in Ireland) and getting drunk. (On a total sidenote, I also read this article called The Dark History of Green Food on St. Patrick’s Day which taught me a little more about Irish history and helped me realize just how culturally insensitive some of our St. Patrick’s Day celebration is towards precisely the people we’re celebrating.)

Anyways, because I had read that article about St. Patrick I really wanted to find an FHE lesson that focused on him and what he’d done with his life, but I came up short. Lots of lessons on rainbows and pots of gold… nothing about St. Patrick. So I did the only logical thing and made my own lesson.

Fortunately my niece came to my rescue by reminding me of the Veggie Tales’ retelling of the story of St. Patrick – perfect. It’s about 10 minutes long and is very engaging for little kids (who doesn’t love Veggie Tales?) and tells about who St. Patrick was and why we celebrate him. So I started my lesson by showing that video clip. If you have Amazon Prime you can stream it for free or if not you can rent it for $1.99 (at least that’s the price as I write this post), you can also buy the DVD – Sumo of the Opera if you’re the awesome plan-in-advance kind of person. Or if you don’t want to show the video I included a brief synopsis in the lesson outline, but really VeggieTales does a much better job 🙂

Anyways, the lesson touches on several different topics – the Godhead, forgiving others and the importance of missionary work. You can just use part of the lesson or talk about all of it together, whatever works best for you! It’s a super simple lesson but I think it’s a good way to bring the focus of the holiday to what we really should be celebrating.

So here’s the lesson outline – St. Patrick’s Day FHE Outline

Hopefully your family enjoys this lesson as much as mine did! Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

17 March 2014
Respecting Our Bodies FHE

Lately we’ve been having issues in our family with respecting other people’s personal space and being kind to others. So I decided we needed to have an FHE lesson on respecting our bodies and other people’s bodies. I looked around the internet and didn’t find anything that quite fit what I was looking for so I decided to make my own. I decided to play to my strengths this time and make a Power Point presentation instead of flannel board cut outs.

As part of our lesson we made gingerbread men and decorated them. After the boys had decorated their cookies I took the rest of the frosting and just squiggled it all over the other cookies so they’d be edible. Sam came up to the counter and said, “Wow Mom, you’re quite the artist!”

I guess I’ve raised kids with pretty low artistic standards. Anyways, here’s the outline and power point. Hopefully someone else enjoys them as much as we did 🙂

Lesson Outline: Respecting Our Bodies FHE Download

Slideshow: Respecting our Bodies Download

4 June 2013
Home Dedication FHE

If you don’t want to read through my whole explanation of how this FHE lesson came to be, or my personal suggestions for making this a little more special feel free to click here to skip to where you can download the lesson outline and PowerPoint. I won’t be offended. Ok, well I might be offended, but really, I won’t know so don’t let my being offended stop you!

A few weeks back Eric mentioned to me that he had something he wanted to do for Family Home Evening. This surprised me a little since usually I plan our FHE lessons but I was excited that he had something he wanted to do. That particular night though was the Monday before Easter and I had spent a lot of time putting together this lesson, so I asked if we could do it another night. The following few weeks were busy with a trip to California, Daniel’s birthday and I think a week where we either missed FHE or Sam had something very specific that he wanted us to do. So last night I told Eric that we’d plan on doing his FHE tonight. I realized though that I didn’t know what it was that Eric wanted to do for his FHE so I asked him. He replied that he wanted to dedicate our house.

This was an excellent idea. Even though we’ve lived in this house over 2 years already (man, time flies!) dedicating our home wasn’t something we’d ever gotten around to. We’d lived in so many places in the 4 years we’d been married before purchasing our house and hadn’t really lived anywhere long enough to think of doing this. I’d thought of it a few times but always forgot to mention it to Eric.

As we got ready to do it this evening I thought it would be good if I could put together a little lesson about what it means to dedicate a house so that our children could understand what was going on. I ended up with an outline and a power point presentation which you can download at the bottom of this post.

If you want to do this FHE and dedicate your own home (even if you’ve already lived there awhile) I would suggest at least having the priesthood holder who will be dedicating the home read what the Church Handbook says:

Church members may dedicate their homes as sacred edifices where the Holy Spirit can reside and where family members can worship, find safety from the world, grow spiritually, and prepare for eternal family relationships. Homes need not be free of debt to be dedicated. Unlike Church buildings, homes are not consecrated to the Lord.

A Melchizedek Priesthood holder may dedicate a home by the power of the priesthood. If there is not a Melchizedek Priesthood holder in the home, a family might invite a close relative, a home teacher, or another Melchizedek Priesthood holder to dedicate the home. Or a family might gather and offer a prayer that includes the elements mentioned in the preceding paragraph and other words as the Spirit directs.

If you’re looking for more reading material I also really liked this article about this family’s experience dedicating their home.

We didn’t end up getting around to doing this tonight (our neighbors got their trampoline set up for the first time since the end of winter and the boys played outside until it was too late for a real FHE so we did a prayer-song-Mormon Messages on YouTube- song-prayer-leftover birthday cake FHE instead), but here are some of the guidelines that I think will help make it a more successful experience. One thing I really tried to do today was to really get our house cleaned up before we dedicated that. Now, understand that as I write this there are still clothes on the floor from yesterday, and a couple dirty dishes in the sink, and balls ALL over our front room. But, our closet is cleaned up, the guest room is all made up nicely and the boys’ room is pretty well picked up, and there aren’t any toys out in the family room 🙂 I was starting to get there. I don’t think that your house (or ours) needs to be immaculate before you dedicate it, but I was thinking of what we do with temples and chapels before we dedicate them and I just think that, to the extent possible, cleaning your house with a little more attention than usual just puts the home in a nice spirit beforehand. I’m also thinking that I might try to dress up next week when we do this for reals. Maybe not quite to church clothes, but I could probably put on at least a casual skirt and have the boys in polo shirts. Just something to mark that we’re doing something a little bit more special, a little bit out of the ordinary for our FHE.

Anyways, without further ado, here is the lesson plan and the PowerPoint. All of the images in my PowerPoint are either personal pictures, from LDS.org’s image library or from the Microsoft clip art gallery, so there shouldn’t be any issues with copyright. If you have a minute though I would recommend going through and swapping out a few of the images. Right now the temple in the pictures is the Draper Temple because it’s our closest temple, but if you go to Temples.lds.org you can find your closest temple and insert that picture as well. I also have a picture from Eric’s and my wedding day on the page talking about temple ordinances, which might be better replaced with a picture from your own wedding day (if available). Finally, on two different slides there is a picture of our house and obviously it’s nice if the house in the picture is actually your own 🙂 You are completely welcome to use my PowerPoint as is and just treat the pictures as stock photography, but also feel free to modify it to better fit your own family too.

If you download either resource and use it I’d appreciate a comment letting me know what you think! I never know if people really use my lessons or not but I’m hoping that they’re put to good use by more than just my own family (although it’s worth the effort even just for them 🙂 ) Enjoy!

Home Dedication FHE Powerpoint

Home Dedication FHE Outline

23 April 2013
Easter FHE

For Christmas this last year I put together 12 FHE lessons for my little sister’s family. I put together a lesson plan for each month with visual aids, recommended opening/closing hymns, an activity and a recommended treat (I couldn’t exactly put together 12 months of treats and hope they’d still be good at the end of the year). The idea was that she could pull out the lesson 5 minutes before FHE and be all ready to go (especially if she does like us and just goes with Oreos for her FHE treat). I had meant to post all of those lessons after I gave her the present, but it hasn’t happened yet. However, as I was getting ready to do the Easter lesson for tonight I thought it might be good to share what I put together with anyone who might be interested.

So, my favorite resource in putting together these FHE lessons was A Year of FHE – she puts together the most well thought out lessons that are just easy to do, spiritual and geared to kids. For my Easter lesson I decided to use her lesson plan called Jesus is Resurrected. I made some modifications to her lesson plan for my use. She uses the Gospel Art Kit a lot, which is great, but my kids tend to like the flannel board style lessons better. So, using her lesson plan I put together some visual aids that were more kid-friendly. She also has her lessons organized on a month-by-month basis and has her recommended closing song be a song that the family is practicing for the whole month, and I wanted to pick something that associated with the lesson instead. I also found an idea for a treat that I wanted to add into my own lesson. Finally, because I’m a dork about things like formatting, I always want my lesson plans to fit on one piece of paper, or one piece double-sided at least, so I copied her lesson into Word and rearranged things so that I was happy with it.

(UPDATE 1/30/2024: A Year of FHE no longer exists as a website. Originally I didn’t post my lesson plan because I didn’t want to duplicate her content, but since you can’t get her lesson plan anymore I have posted my copy below.) My treat idea is these Resurrection rolls that were floating around Pinterest like crazy a few months ago.

The visuals I put together are what you see at the beginning of this post. I got the colored in images of Christ and the tomb etc. from Chocolate on my Cranium and the other images were from Microsoft publisher. Nothing too fancy, but it would save you the hassle of trying to gather all the items from around your house/yard.

Easter FHE Lesson Plan

Easter FHE Visuals

Easter FHE Visuals – Reversed (for flannel board)

25 March 2013
Prophets and General Conference FHE

So, after I finally finished last week’s lesson for this week… I decided I wanted to do something else for FHE tonight 😛 General Conference is coming up this weekend and I wanted to talk to my sons about that to get them prepared. So I started on it this morning and came up with what I wanted to tell them and some visual aids to go along with it. It’s not as awesome as I would like, but for having decided that I wanted to do this earlier this morning and working with toddlers underfoot – it’s pretty darn ok 🙂 You can see a copy of the visual aids I created above. The clip art I used is from a few different sources so it doesn’t match perfectly, but it was good enough for my purposes. Maybe some day I’ll get everything in it that I want. I’m also planning on using a picture of the quorum of the twelve apostles and the first presidency with this lesson if I can get my husband to pick them up on his way home. Hope someone else’s family enjoys this too!

Prophets & General Conference Lesson Outline

Prophets Visuals – Reversed for Flannel Board

Prophet Visuals

Update: For my own family I made this lesson into a PowerPoint Presentation (because that’s just how I roll). Anyways, if anyone else would like to use that I’ve included it here – Prophets & General Conference Slideshow. I like this format personally because it has all the text of the lesson on the screen so you can pretty much just read from the screen, and have the visuals display as you go. It also makes the prophets matching game a little more interactive.

Image Credits:

Noah and Ark from The Friend, November 2011

Nephi, Brass Plates, Moses, 10 Commandments, Samuel the Lamanite, star and manger from Chocolate on My Cranium

Daniel & Lions from Sugardoodle

President Monson speaking at Conference from LDSColoringBook.com (General Conference Coloring Book)

Joseph Smith’s First Vision from LDSColoringBook.com (Church History Coloring Book)

1 October 2012
I Want to Be A Missionary Now FHE

On Friday my little brother Cody opened up his mission call! I can’t believe he’s old enough to be going on a mission but I’m very excited for him. Since missions are obviously a topic that gets discussed a lot around our house right now I wanted to make it the topic of a Family Home Evening lesson for my kids.

I looked around the internet to see if I could find a lesson that was like what I wanted to do, but nothing quite fit the bill. What I really wanted to do was discuss how mission calls are made and talk about what missionaries really do. Since we have really young children this seemed like a good building block to have. Most of the lessons I saw were about sharing the gospel, which is awesome just not what I wanted to do. So I decided to make my own.

I put together a lesson plan but what I really wanted was to have a flannel board story to go along with it (that format works really well for our kiddos). I searched high and low to find the type of clip art graphics that I wanted but really didn’t come up with anything. I found one picture that I really liked but nothing that matched it. So I decided to take the picture I’d found and use it to create my own clip art to fill in the rest.

(P.S. – I spent a lot of time coming up with the clip art so I feel the need to share the whole story, if you just want the fruits of my labors the lesson plan and graphics links are at the end of the post, feel free to skip the whole story 🙂 )

This is what I started with:

I decided the missionary on the right would be the easiest to work with since he didn’t have a helmet on and already had hair. So I cut him out, stole the other missionary’s left arm, took off his backpack and his tag and…

Voila! Now I have a pre-missionary who is ready to meet with his bishop. Of course, that means that next I’ll need a bishop. So I doubled that missionary, turned one copy of him to face the other way, added a door in the background and got to work editing one of the copies so that he could look like a different person than the original missionary (a little weird for him to interview himself to go on a mission). I changed his skin tone a little, got rid of the Mormon wave, smooshed his head, changed his mouth, added a jacket (that was definitely the hardest part), and tried to make them look like they’re shaking hands. I got pretty far through this process and then realized I had a problem –

I had accidentally amputated the bishop’s left hand! Crap. Eric also pointed out that I was having them shake hands very awkwardly, the Bishop’s hand should be on top instead of the prospective Elder’s. A few more changes and…

Tah-dah! Now he looks like he’s ready to give out mission calls. This whole process was HARD (I’m not very artistically inclined, if you can’t tell from my Photoshopping efforts). So I decided to dig a little more for some clip art that might match. I found the original picture at MormonShare.com and it indicated that it had been submitted by Jenny Smith, but a perusal of Jenny’s site seemed to be a mirror effort of what was on MormonShare. I had left a comment with Jenny to see if she could help me find more similar clip art, but I wasn’t too hopeful. Then I noticed that while the image had been *submitted* by Jenny Smith, the artist listed was Arie Van De Graaff. A quick Googling of that name led me to his website – The Mormon Cartoonist. Jackpot! I emailed Brother Van De Graff to check if it was ok if I posted my finished product on my website (it was) and if he had any ideas on where I could find some of the other pieces I was looking for.

While I waited for a response I went to Google Images and now that I had an artist name for the pictures in question I had a lot more success. The next thing I wanted to make was a picture of an apostle reviewing the prospective missionary’s papers and issuing a call. Not an easy bill to fill, mostly I was interested in finding someone sitting in an office chair since that was a piece I wasn’t keen on creating myself. I found this –

Which I actually only just realized is not by Arie Van De Graff, but by Kevin Beckstrom, but he mentions Arie on his blog post so it came up in my search. Anyways, I took the adult trekkie, turned him around to face the computer screen, shaved his head, put him in a suit, gave him a smile, and put the missionary’s information on the computer screen and…

Tah dah! Our Trekkie is now an apostle! The funny thing was I was having a hard time finding a scribble that I could use for the writing on the computer screen. I didn’t want to have to come up with actual text, and drawing scribble text with a mouse is harder than you might think! I had to go and find that scribble on someone’s MySpace page, and then I shrunk it and pasted it over and over 😛 Go figure.

My next step was to make a picture of our missionary receiving his mission call. This is where I struck gold! I found this digital coloring book which had almost all the rest of the images that I needed. Plus, it was illustrated by none other than Brother Van De Graaff himself, so the theme fit perfectly. Strangely enough the picture for the MTC actually came from the coloring book for The Proclamation on the Family, but it worked. I put my missionary into all of the pictures and got the rest of my pictures –

So, if you survived through my long story of how I got all my graphics you definitely deserve to have a copy of this lesson. I don’t promise that it’s the most amazing and life changing lesson, but I’m excited to do it with my boys next week (obviously I kinda missed getting it done for this week, even though I started on Monday with that intention 😛 ) I think it’s probably good if you have very little boys like I do. I got some of my ideas from this FHE Lesson at A Year of FHE and I plan on printing out her map as well as the missionary tags to go along with the lesson. So without further ado –

Missionary Lesson Plan

Missionary Visuals (reversed for flannel board)

Missionary Visuals (not reversed for normal printing)

26 September 2012
Angry Birds FHE
As I was playing on Pinterest a few months ago I came across an idea for a Family Home Evening lesson using Angry Birds as a way to teach children to control their emotions. Since I have little children and a smartphone, Angry Birds is obviously something that gets played A LOT in our household and I knew this would be a hit. I found the lesson on The Home Teacher and her original lesson plan is here. She has also taken the time to put together some awesome resources, including a follow up post with more birds and lots of printables including posters and workbook pages. The whole thing is awesome and I was excited to do it for my boys for FHE.

For Christmas this last year my sister-in-law gave us a flannel board and a bunch of flannel board stories for FHE. Sam now thinks of FHE as a flannel board story time so I knew the lesson would go best if I were to make the Angry Birds into something that would go on our flannel board. So I took all of the bird images and put them in a single page format so I could print them onto an iron on transfer. The lesson that night was a little scattered because I was working off of my memory of what I had read in the blog posts. As part of a project I’m working on right now I decided to write out a concise, easy-to-use FHE outline that had all the main ideas from The Home Teacher’s blog posts as well as an assigned opening and closing song, a shortened link for an idea to make your own version of an Angry Birds game using paint, cans and a dodgeball, and a treat suggestion. Basically I wanted to make it so you could print out the outline and have an almost zero-prep FHE lesson.

Anyways, I finished that off and decided to share the fruits of my labors here. I’ve included the outline, the single page formatted visuals and the visuals reversed (for iron-on transfer). If you aren’t using the lesson on a flannel board or some other small format I really suggest The Home Teacher’s posters as they have a lot more detail and are just plain prettier. I also highly recommend reading through her blog posts on the lesson as they explain her ideas in a lot more detail (my main goal was to make the lesson plan fit on one page front and back so I had to pare it down a lot).

This has become Sam’s favorite FHE lesson, whenever we pull out the binder he asks us to do the Angry Birds lesson again. Not just because it’s a fun topic though, he really knows what we have each of the birds representing and names the birds by their lesson names when he’s playing the game too! I hope you enjoy this as much as we have!
I just want to say thanks again to Keri at The Home Teacher for all the effort she put into putting this lesson together in the first place, and for the permission to share it again here!
21 August 2012