I know I haven't mentioned this yet, but we have a theme for our family this year. It is "I'm trying to be like Jesus." We have an FHE poster (for those Mondays and Sundays - yes, we do FHE twice a week - where we didnt' really have time to plan anything else) where we pull a question out of one envelope, answer how we would be like Jesus in that situation, and then put the slip in the happy face envelope. This is really fun. We also have a sticker poster where when the kids do something extra kind or loving and caring they receive a sticker. So many stickers earns them little toys and stuff like that - I already had a big bag full of little toys that a friend gave me, leftovers from her kids - so this doesn't cost me any money, it actually cleans out my closet. We'll, it moves the mess from my closet to the mess that is the kids toy dresser. Each morning and evening for devotional we sing a song. January's song was, believe it or not, "I'm trying to be like Jesus." For morning devotional we would find a scripture verse and read it and relate how it shows us how we can be like Jesus. In the evening we just read one verse from the Book of Mormon. We've been doing this for almost a year now and I think we are half way done with 1st Nephi :)
Anyway, the main reason for this post is about this months theme. We're still trying to be like Jesus, but in February we are focusing on loving each other as Jesus loves us. Thus, our song for the month is "Love one Another" and we are finding fun morning scriptures that have to do with love.
Yesterday for our Sunday FHE (we do two because on Sundays we have more time and can do more of a spiritual lesson or activity, whereas on Mondays we have much less time and often incorporate work projects into the activity) we read 1 John 3:16 and 18. We talked about having a house full of love and how we need to not only SAY loving things but we need to DO loving things and show our love for each other. Then we did this awesome project together.
This was such a fun FHE and even if you didn't have a gingerbread house set laying around or you didn't want to spend 10 dollars on candy you could make a house out of a cardboard box and decorate it with hearts and loving words. Then, instead of filling your chimney with as much candy as possible, you could writing loving things about each other and dump them through the chimney and maybe read them at the end of the month.
Anyway, the main reason for this post is about this months theme. We're still trying to be like Jesus, but in February we are focusing on loving each other as Jesus loves us. Thus, our song for the month is "Love one Another" and we are finding fun morning scriptures that have to do with love.
Yesterday for our Sunday FHE (we do two because on Sundays we have more time and can do more of a spiritual lesson or activity, whereas on Mondays we have much less time and often incorporate work projects into the activity) we read 1 John 3:16 and 18. We talked about having a house full of love and how we need to not only SAY loving things but we need to DO loving things and show our love for each other. Then we did this awesome project together.
A fair amount of engineering went into making sure the house didn't collapse. In the end the roof did start sliding off, but so slowly that the icing had enough time to dry before it completely fell off the house. Maybe you can tell in the last photo.
How much candy can you dump into the chimney? thankfully this chimney doesn't open up into the house. (Derek and Joshua have a secret plan for next year for our Christmas candy houses - they are going to fill Joshua's house to the top with M&Ms after they've put it together. This was practice, I guess.
This was such a fun FHE and even if you didn't have a gingerbread house set laying around or you didn't want to spend 10 dollars on candy you could make a house out of a cardboard box and decorate it with hearts and loving words. Then, instead of filling your chimney with as much candy as possible, you could writing loving things about each other and dump them through the chimney and maybe read them at the end of the month.
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