Come Follow Me: Matthew 19-20, Mark 10, Luke 18 (May 13-19)

Here are some fun and  free lesson helps to teach this weeks Come Follow Me lesson.  It covers Matthew 19-20, Mark 10, and Luke 18.  These are great for families and primary classes.

Jesus teaches about the importance of marriage.  This would be a great time to share some of your wedding pictures and memories with your kids.  Talk about the importance of temple marriage. If you have older children maybe talk about some of the characteristics you looked for in a spouse. You can also read part (or all) of the Proclamation to the Family.  After pick one or both of the following activities.

 Print and cut the puzzle.  Work together as a family to put it together.  Want to add an extra element of fun?  Hide the puzzle pieces around the room.

 To play the next game print the board.  You will need a dice and something to cover the hearts.  You can use anything such as buttons or cheerios.  On your turn roll the dice. If you land on 5 use your button to cover the heart.  Then share one way you can show love to your family.  Then pass the dice to the next person.  continue playing until all of the hearts have been cover.

Jesus Blessing the Children-
Here's the link to the bible video (found towards the middle of the page)
I thought it would be fun to watch and learn the words to the song I know that My Savior Loves Me (found here).  We learned this one a few years ago in primary and I love the beautiful message.
Craft-Color and cut out the circle and the hearts.  Inside the hearts draw either a way you know the Savior loves you OR a way you can show the Savior you love him.  Hole punch the top of the hearts and 3 holes along the bottom of the circle.  Connect the hearts to the circle with yarn or string.

"What Lack I yet?"  The story of the young rich man.  I love the into to the lesson found in the Come Follow Me manual. This would be great to share with your family or use for your personal study. With the topic of "What lack I yet?" I really enjoyed studying this talk by Sister Becky Craven.  Also this one by President Oaks and this one by President Nelson.

This is also a great story to teach our children about being willing to follow Jesus Christ.  This young man was doing a lot of really good things. When he asked what more does he need to do the answer the Savior gave him was something he wasn't willing to do.  I think its important for children to learn that we are not always asked to do easy things.  The big question is are willing to do it.  For this activity I have a coloring page that says "I can follow Jesus Christ" and a 2nd page with different commandments and thing we are asked to do.  Have your kids color and cut out some of the things they do to follow Jesus.  Also encourage them to ponder the question "what lack I yet?"  meaning what is the Savior asking me to do.  They can add their thoughts to the page.

The final activities go with the parable of the laborers in the vineyard.  Can I just tell you parables are so over my head but I have loved studying them this year.  I almost skipped this one because its impossible to get to everything each week.  However, I love the message of this parable so much that it has now moved to my top priority to teach this week.  I included parts of Elder Hollands talk.  If you are like me and parables are a little tough to understand use this talk!  It explains it so well.  To start we are going to use the idea in the I&F manual.  It suggests setting up a race and having your family members compete.  After its over give a reward to everyone no matter when they completed the race.  I inlcuded some medals you can cut out for each person.  hole punch the top and add yarn to so you can put it over their heads.  Next use these adorable puppets to tell the parable.  I plan to use Elder Holland's words.  Pull out a new person for each time it mentions.  Then when its time for them to be paid use a pom pom or actual coin and set one on each person.  Stop and ask your family if this seems fair.  Then continue on wit elder Holland"s explanation.  

That's everything for the week.  you will find the free download at the end of this post.  I'm hoping to add instructions in the download next week. 

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