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Family History
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Make an "About Me" collage out of pictures from old magazines. Read excerpts from the journal or history of a member of your family. Start a family journal. Go to your local genealogical center or library and research your family history. Prepare a family group sheet/four generation pedigree chart. Interview an older family member. Get out the family photo album and tell stories about family members. Install LDS Church's PAF program and begin entering your family history in your computer.
Service
9. Make up a play. Perform it at a nursing home, or grandma's house (so she can enjoy FHE, too!). 10.Write letters to grandparents or a missionary. 11.Clean up trash at a local park. 12.Ask an elderly neighbor how your family can help him or her. 13.Make or assemble humanitarian projects. 14.Invite a non-member family over for a barbecue. 15.Have a service car wash. 16.Visit an inactive family member, elderly person, or a shut in. 17.Adopt a grandma or grandpa from your church or neighborhood. 18.Make simple puppets to take to a children's ward of a local hospital. Put on a puppet show of a favorite children's story. Then let the children keep the puppets. (LDS Family Home Evening Resource Guide, p. 266) 19.Prepare a musical program to take to a foster home, hospital, or nursing home. You could invite another family to join you. Your program could include vocal or instrumental solos, duets, trios, or quartets; and be sure to include some familiar sing-along tunes that your audience could join you in singing. (LDS Family Home Evening Resource Guide, p. 266) Print copies of any church music you need from the LDS Church's Music site
Music Appreciation
20.Listen to classical music, lights off, lying on the floor, and take turns saying what it sounds like. 21.Learn to conduct music from LDS.org. 22.Make your own musical instruments and start a family band. 23.Learn Music symbols and terms from LDS.org. 24.Memorize a family hymn. 25.Have a family dance. Learn about appropriate dance moves and positions. 26.Attend community concerts or listen to a local orchestra. Talk about the effects of good music on your thoughts from Elder Packer. 27.Appreciating Music from the LDS FHE manual
28.Games that help children learn Hymns and Children's Songs from the LDS FHE Manual
Church History
41.Study a Prophet by printing his picture and biography from LDS.org. 42.Study Church History Sites by printing out pictures and information, including scriptures, from LDS.org. 43.Study the Church in your area from LDS.org. Get headlines, stories, a brief history of your area, and statistics (click "Quick Facts"). Information on the Church world-wide. 44.Study present day Church Leaders' Biographies from LDS.org 45.Learn about this history of your local temple by printing its picture and story from LDS.org.
Outdoor Activities
46.Got a GPS? Go Geocaching and have a lesson on carefully following directions found in the scriptures. 47.Learn how to use a compass. Have a lesson on carefully following directions from our Church leaders. 48.Learn how to build a fire and the cook hot dogs and enjoy. 49.Make and fly inexpensive newspaper kites. Use the kite object lesson for an easy FHE lesson. Here's a Kite lesson from the FHE Resource guide. 50.Make miniature boats and float them in some water. Sing Master the Tempest is Raging Read the story of Jesus calming the storm for children or for adults 51.Go on a family trip/historical excursion 52.Go fishing. Talk about missionary work and being fishers of men (Matthew 4:19, Mark 1:17). 53.Go for a hike. Learn about outdoor safety from the US Forest Service. Here are tips on Hiking with small children from the FHE manual. 54.Go swimming. Learn about water safety. 55.Go for a bike ride together. Study bicycle safety and helmet safety 56.Go bird watching near your home. Talk about the Creation or use The Creation Lesson.
57.Learn physical coordination while playing Yard Games - from the LDS FHE manual
Sprirituality
77.Walk around the temple grounds. If you don't live near a temple, download a picture of your local temple, and have a pretend picnic there! 78.Memorize the Articles of Faith. 79.Have a family testimony meeting. 80.Work on Duty to God, Faith in God, or Personal Progress 81.Have a missionary night 82.Have a family fast for an ill friend or family problem. Break your fast for FHE and talk about how you felt while fasting. 83.Study the Plan of Salvation from mormon.org. Video available online. 84.Why do Good people suffer? Watch and discuss a video from mormon.org, and study adversity. 85.Study Families online at mormons.org. Watch the videos and discuss with your family. 86.Learn about gratitude and the 10 lepers while you fill out the Happy Heart Crossword Puzzle. 87.Print the Child's Scripture and Prayer Chart for a lesson on the importance of daily scripture study and prayer. 88.Memorize and discuss one of the Articles of Faith each 4 weeks (52weeks/4weeks =13). 89.Bear your testimony, and invite others to do the same. A seminary, YW/YM, Sunday School, or Primary lesson topic makes a great starter. Learning to bear testimony is especially important for
For Toddlers and Childen - (more help on FHE for small children) 1. Ask your child's Nursery teacher what the lesson was in class on that week. Look the lesson up in the Nursery manual, and reinforce what was taught. 1. Read the picture story of the creation from Old Testament Stories' Jesus Makes the Earth and Play my Creation Matching game or teach The Creation Lesson - for younger children 1. Read the story of the Birth of the Savior from New Testament Stories' Jesus Christ is Born and Play my Nativity Matching game 1. Read a story from the Gospel art picture kit while holding up the picture. 1. Use the FHE lesson suggestions in the current edition of the Friend. 1. Share testimonies For Teenagers
Reinforce your Youth's Young Men or Young Women's lesson by teaching the FHE lesson suggested in the current edition of the New Era. Work on Duty to God or Personal Progress activities together. Have career exploration nights. Arrange to visit a business that stays open in the evenings (like a newspaper, television or radio station, supermarket, etc.), and find out what its like to work there. Visit your local television station and watch them do a news broadcast. (Youll have to arrange in advance for this one.) Bear your testimony, and invite teenagers to do the same. A seminary or institute lesson topic makes a great starter. Learning to bear testimony is especially important for future elder and sister missionaries. Study and apply principles from the new Preach My Gospel book.
Offer to redo, clean up, and fix the dolls and toys from your local thrift shop. Stuff envelopes for a charity organization or a nonprofit group. Study the most recent Conference Addresses from the Ensign. Study and apply principles from the new Preach My Gospel book. Volunteer to help clean pens and walk the pets at the local animal shelter. Go to a hospital and read stories to the elderly or to children. Research and write a history about a relative. Research a favorite gospel topic at library.lds.org Invite a member of your church unit to teach you about entering genealogy into the computer. Prepare names for the temple -- attend the temple and do the work for your ancestors.
Play hopscotch. Play freeze-tag. Play broom ball. Play Frisbee. Play touch football. Play chess, bridge or checkers. Visit a local bookstore or library. Visit the park or zoo. Visit the countryside. Visit the City. (Maybe on a bus?) Walk the dog. Start a family collection (coins, rocks, stories, dress-up, clothes, treasures). Shoot hoops together. Build a fort. Play H.O.R.S.E. Organize a game of capture the flag. Climb a tree. Take a nature hike trail. Pick berries together Solve a crossword puzzle together. Bake cookies or bread.
Sources: lds.about.com, the FHE manual, "FYI: For Your Info," New Era, Feb. 1992, page 41, and me, Jenny Smith