With this “I Am Thankful for Each Night and Day” window wheel children learn that Heavenly Father and Jesus created the day so we can work and play and the night so we can rest. As the wheel turns talking about how they can express thanks to Heavenly Father for the night and day.
Genesis 1:1, 3–5, 14–18; Helaman 14:1–13; and 3 Nephi 1:15–23
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Little LESSON LIFESAVER Activity
Day and Night I Give Thanks (window wheel)
OBJECTIVE: Help children know that with the help of Heavenly Father, Jesus created the day so we can work and play and the night so we can rest. As the wheel turns talking about how they can express thanks to Heavenly Father for the night and day. SEE LESSON IDEAS below*.
CRAFT ACTIVITY – Day and Night I Give Thanks – Window Wheel
1. Print or copy the activity. Attach parts by piercing a paper fastener in the center so the wheel turns.
2. Talk about this day and night window wheel and about how Heavenly Father divided the day and the night for us to work, play, and rest.
THOUGHT TREAT: Cut-out cookies in sun, moon, and star shapes.
SINGING for Sunbeam Lesson 8 – I Am Thankful for the Day and the Night: Sing “I Am Like a Star” (Children’s Songbook, 163) and “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.”
YOUTH CAN TEACH using LESSON 8 I Am Thankful for the Day and Night in the Primary 1 Manual (HERE).
. . . This LESSON will help children know that Heavenly Father had a plan. So, He directed His Son Jesus Christ to create the DAY so we can work and play, and the NIGHT so we can rest.
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