CHILDREN’S CRAFT – LESSON ACTIVITY. I HAVE A BODY LIKE HEAVENLY FATHER AND JESUS – First Vision pop-up scene. Children love using a straw to pop up these very first vision figures of God the Father and the Son appearing to Joseph Smith. After reading James 1:5 he wanted to kneel in the Sacred Grove and ask which church was true. This was the first visit in the latter days where Joseph would be the first prophet and restore Jesus Christ’s Church on the earth again.
USE FOR: COME FOLLOW ME, Primary and Home (family home evening), Activity Days, Sunday School, Bible Study
Little LESSON LIFESAVER Activity
Nursery – Age 3
I Have a Body like Heavenly Father and Jesus (First Vision Pop-up Scene)
NURSERY – CRAFT
Nursery Lesson 21 – Joseph Smith Saw Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ in the Behold Your Little Ones manual.
OBJECTIVE: Tell children that Joseph Smith was the first prophet of our day. He restored Jesus’s true church to the earth so we could have the fullness of the gospel. It all began when he prayed in the Sacred Grove and two personages appeared.
CRAFT ACTIVITY – I Have a Body like Heavenly Father and Jesus
– First Vision Pop-up Scene
1. Copy the First Vision scene that follows for each child. Glue the label on a paper cup and insert a straw in the center of the bottom of the cup. Then mount at the top of the straw the image of Heavenly Father and Jesus.
2. Push images up and down as you tell the scripture story found in Joseph Smith—History 1:17 about how Joseph Smith prayed in the Sacred Grove and the Father and the Son appeared to answer his prayer.
3. Tell children that this shows us that we have a body like Heavenly Father and Jesus.
LESSON IDEAS:
• Nursery Lesson 21 – Joseph Smith Saw Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ in the Behold Your Little Ones manual.
THOUGHT TREAT: “I’m Thankful for My Body” prayer pudding. Serve children pudding from a small container. As children eat pudding, talk about things they can thank Heavenly Father and Jesus for when they pray. Say, “I am thankful for my body; it is so neat. I’m thankful for my eyes, nose, mouth, ears, hands, legs and feet. I’m thankful for the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is so sweet!”
SINGING for Joseph Smith Saw Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ Nursery Lesson 21: Sing: “I Am a Child of God” and “Away in a Manger” (Children’s Songbook, 2, 42).
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