AGES 1-5 ACTIVITY. PLAN OF HAPPINESS poster or coloring page. Children can learn they lived with Heavenly Father as spirits before birth. Heavenly Father has a plan for them to come to earth to gain a body and learn to be like God. Jesus will come to show them the way to be obedient and how to return to heaven. Jesus came to save.
Great for COME FOLLOW ME, Primary and Family Home Evening, Sunday School, Daily Scripture Devotionals
Little LESSON LIFESAVER
Heavenly Father Has a Plan for Me! poster or coloring page
NURSERY – Ages 1-5
OBJECTIVE: The lesson helps children learn that they lived with Heavenly Father as spirits before we were born. Heavenly Father prepared a plan that allows us to come to earth and receive physical bodies in order to become like Him and return to His presence. This is possible through the Atonement of Jesus Christ and our obedience. Jesus was chosen to be our Savior.
POSTER ACTIVITY – Happiness Plan Poster
1. Print or copy the activity.
2. Talk about the poster, saying, “Heavenly Father has a plan of happiness for me! When we were living in heaven as spirits, Heavenly Father presented His plan for us. Part of the plan was to come to earth and receive physical bodies to be like Him and to be able to return to His presence.
Through Jesus’s Atonement and our obedience, we can return. In heaven, we were with Heavenly Father and Jesus. We chose to follow Jesus. With this body, we can learn to make the right choices so we can return to live with Heavenly Father and Jesus someday.”
3. Talk about the Home Activity: “Show me a glove to illustrate the body (lifeless without the spirit). When I came to earth, my spirit was placed in my body to bring it to life (put a hand in glove). When I die, my spirit will leave my body (remove the hand from the glove). When I am resurrected, my spirit will return to my body (put the glove back on).”
THOUGHT TREAT: Heavenly-smile bread. Squirt a processed cheese smile on a slice of bread for each child. Remind children that heaven is a happy place because Heavenly Father and Jesus are there. They want us to be happy while we live on earth too.
SINGING for Nursery Lesson 2 and Sunbeam Lesson 3: Sing “I Will Follow God’s Plan” “My Heavenly Father Loves me” (Children’s Songbook, 164, 228). For fun visuals, go to the same songs in the Super Little Singers book (101) or CD-ROM.
LESSON IDEAS (for the above activity):
Nursery Lesson 2: Heavenly Father Has a Plan for Me
Click the following to find Nursery Lesson 2 – Heavenly Father Has a Plan for Me.
Sunbeam Lesson 3: Heavenly Father’s Plan for Us
Click the following to find Sunbeam Lesson 3 Primary 1 Manual – Heavenly Father’s Plan for Us found in the Primary 1 manual.
MORE NURSERY LESSON ACTIVITIES:
GO TO ANOTHER LESSON ACTIVITY
Click HERE to find 2a CRAFT for this same lesson – Nursery Lesson 2: Heavenly Father Has a Plan for Me (shown below).
NEXT LESSON
Click HERE to find 3a CRAFT activity for the next Nursery 3: I Can Pray to Heavenly Father.
Click HERE to find 3b POSTER activity for the next Nursery 3: I Can Pray to Heavenly Father.
GO BACK
Click HERE to find 1b POSTER activity for the previous Nursery lesson 1: I Am a Child of God.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Click HERE for Nursery Lessons 1-30.
MORE SUNBEAM LESSON ACTIVITIES:
GO TO ANOTHER LESSON 3 ACTIVITY
Click HERE to find 3a CRAFT activity for this same lesson – Sunbeam Lesson 3: Heavenly Father’s Plan for Us (shown right).
NEXT LESSON
Click HERE to find 4a CRAFT activity for the next Sunbeam 4: I Can Pray to Heavenly Father.
Click HERE to find 4b POSTER activity for the Sunbeam 4: I Can Pray to Heavenly Father.
GO BACK
Click HERE to find 2b POSTER activity for the previous Sunbeam lesson 2: Heavenly Father Has a Body.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Click HERE for Sunbeam lessons 1-46.
