For nursery – pre-school children ages 1-5, Junior Primary, Sunday School, family home evening
Little LESSON LIFESAVER Activity:
Hugs for Birds and Bugs
Poster or Coloring Page
OBJECTIVE: Help children feel gratitude to Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ for birds, insects, and creeping things.
POSTER ACTIVITY – Birds and Insects Poster
1. Print or copy the activity poster to color.
2. Talk about poster, saying, “Birds and bugs deserve our hugs! We thank you!”
• Talk about how hugs for birds and bugs are different from hugs for our family and friends. To hug a bird or a bug, you don’t squeeze them like you do Mom or Dad. Hugging a bird or bug will hurt them because they are so small. “Hugging” a bird or bug is watching out for them and helping
them find their home. A bird’s home might be in a tree, and a bug’s home might be in the dirt near a rock they can crawl under. (But don’t put the rock on top of them, because it might squish them.)
• Help children answer questions found on the handout (e.g., “Spiders catch insects—like mosquitoes—in their webs! How many spiders can you find?”). Then find the ladybugs, worms, and caterpillars.
3. Talk about the Home Activity: “Let’s go look for bugs and birds! Tell me which bugs are helpful to us and which ones we should leave alone. Tell me what you know about all the different birds we see.”
THOUGHT TREAT: Pretzel bird nests. Pile stick pretzels in a bowl to look like a bird nest.
LESSON IDEAS (for the above activity):
Sunbeam Lesson 13 – I Am Thankful for Birds and Insects in the Primary 1 manual.
SINGING for Sunbeam Lesson 13 – I Am Thankful for Birds and Insects:
SONG VISUALS FOR SONGS BELOW – COMING SOON
Sing “In the Leafy Treetops” (Children’s Songbook, 240) and “Five Little Ducks.”
Sing “Ants Go Marching,” “Eensy Weensy Spider,” and “Five Little Speckled Frogs.” Fun visuals, music, and lyrics COMING SOON
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