CHILDREN’S LESSON ACTIVITY. DANIEL AND THE LIONS’ DEN drama scene. Children will be guided by Daniel’s story on faith to know Heavenly Father listens and hears their prayers. Like Daniel, they can pray to Heavenly Father and know that as they make good choices like Daniel, He will protect them and help them know what to do (Daniel 6). Have them pretend to be the lions with big mouths opening up to eat Daniel, and then close their mouths to remind them that Heavenly Father closed the lions’ mouths to protect Daniel.
USE FOR: COME FOLLOW ME, Primary and Home (family home evening), Activity Days, Sunday School, Bible Study
LESSON LIFESAVER ACTIVITY:
I Can Pray – Daniel and the Lions’ Den drama scene
OBJECTIVE: Help children learn how to pray to Heavenly Father and know that He will listen to their prayers.
TO MAKE Print and cut out the drama scene for each child.
ACTIVITY: Use the props and figures to act out the Daniel and Lions’ Den story where Daniel prayed to Heavenly Father. Then the lions did not eat Daniel (Daniel 6).
THOUGHT TREAT: Cream-filled cookies or crackers. Say, “These cookies or crackers are like our hands in prayer. They come together and are folded and quiet. Then when the prayer is over, they can unfold (take cookie apart). After the prayer is over, let’s remember to keep our hands still. Keep your hands folded or in your lap in Primary. This is being reverent in Heavenly Father’s house.”
SINGING for I Can Pray to Heavenly Father Lesson 4: Sing “I Am Like a Star” (Children’s Songbook, 163).
MORE LESSON IDEAS:
• Present Sunbeam Lesson 4 Primary 1 Manual – I Can Pray to Heavenly Father in Primary 1 manual.
• COME FOLLOW ME New Testament Lesson 14 “Thou Art the Christ” (My faith can work miracles.) ⇒
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