Come Follow Me: Acts 1-5 (July 1-7)

I'm really excited for this weeks activities and hope you find something that works for your primary class or family.  This week for Come Follow Me we are covering Acts 1-5.  You can find the lesson here.  All of the free lesson helps can be found in the download at the end of this post.

"Jesus Christ leads His Church through prophets and apostles.

Learning about how the Savior led His ancient Church through apostles can help the children gain testimonies of prophets and apostles in our day." (primary Manual)

We are going to use one of the suggestions of playing a match game with the current prophet and apostles.  Print the 3 pages on cardstock.  Cut the cards apart.  Place the cards upside down and take turns drawing 2 at a time. If you get a match read a fact about that person.  You can find a bunch of facts and a fishing game in this post.

To follow up with the match game we are going to talk about some of the things the prophet and apostle teach us.  There is a poster page and a page of circles.  Print and cut out the circles and place them in a bag.  Take turns drawing a circle now you can either share what is on the circle or use it to play pictionary or charades.  After glue or tape the circle to the poster and use it as a cute reminder of the lesson through out the week.

 To teach the story of Peter and John healing the lame man we are going to use narrators and actors.  Print the story, and the page of people.  Cut the people out.  Now you can either punch a hole in the top and add yarn to create necklaces that your actors can wear OR attach them to Popsicle stick and use for a puppet show.  I also just added a clapper board (I think that's what its called).  Cut the bottom and top piece out.  Attach with a brad so it can open and close.  Let some one use it and yell action and cut before and after you begin.  I've done this with my primary class and they think its the greatest thing :)

Acts 2:1-8 talks about the gift of tongues.  I thought it would be fun to review the 7th Article of Faith.  I included a fill in the blank page and you can talk about spiritual gifts.  Ask them what they think the gift of tongues is and who has this gift.

To keep going with this theme we are going to learn the song "Children all over the World" from the primary song book.   Its a lot of fun to learn how to say thank you in a few different languages.  I also included some fun puzzles.  To put the puzzles together you will need to find the language, a country that speaks that language, and the word thank you in that language.  There are two versions of the puzzles.  One is a self check puzzle and the other one is harder because all of the pieces will fit together.  I know some of your little ones can't read so use the self check one and you can read the words to them.  The final activity was inspired by my 11 year olds love for research.  Its just a simple country research paper.  Have your kids pick a country-maybe one you or someone you know served a mission.  Write the country under all about.  The research or ask some one what language they speak, how to say different phrases in that language, and then a few fun facts.  It would be really fun to present your findings to your family.

That's it for this week.  As always thank you so much for stopping by and if you have any questions or trouble with the download please let me know :)

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