Tell children that the Holy Ghost will guide us like the Jaredites who were led to the Promised Land. Includes a cookie barge placemat.

Includes Scripture Challenge card.

6 Visuals (Color and Black and white) with instructions.

OBJECTIVE: Tell children that the Holy Ghost will guide us like the Jaredites who were led to the Promised Land.

ACTIVITY: Jaredites Crossword Puzzle

Help children read Ether 1, 2, 3, and 6 to find the words in the puzzle.

Answers—Across: (3) Holy Ghost (6) Jesus Christ (9) brother of Jared (11) pray (12) sixteen

Answers—Down: (1) promised land (2) touch (4) dish (5) light (7) stones (8) tower of Babel (9) barge (10) finger.

TO MAKE Print activity on lightweight paper, copy, color, and cut out the Jaredites Crossword Puzzle for each child.

THOUGHT TREAT Cookie Barge. Make the recipe below and place cookies on a placemat (copy the pattern that follows). Talk about the barges they sailed to the Promised Land in (shaped like a dish having no windows). Jared prayed for guidance on how to sail without light or air. Read Ether 2:17.

COOKIE BARGE: Preheat oven to 375° and grease cookie sheet. Beat an 18–ounce cake mix, adding 3/4 cup water and 2 eggs. Drop a heaping tablespoon full of batter onto a cookie sheet 3 inches apart. Bake 8–11 minutes, cool, and frost cookie bottoms only, placing bottoms together like a sandwich with rounded top and bottom.

ACTIVITY INCLUDES – SCRIPTURE CHALLENGE CARD: Help children Search and Ponder this scripture card by filling in the blanks. PRINT this 5 x 7 scripture card from the pdf included with the above activity. You can punch the two holes on the left and tie a ribbon to attach cards or use two metal rings to connect cards.

Ether 4:11 “But he that believeth these things which I have spoken, him will I visit with the manifestations of my Spirit, and he shall know and bear record. For because of my Spirit he shall know that these things are true; for it persuadeth men to do good.”