One Willis Family: temples

Week 3: I can prepare now to be worthy to enter the temple.

Identify the doctrine (singing a song): Ask the children to listen for what their sacred duty is as they sing the first verse of “I Love to See the Temple” (CS, 95). Tell the children that they can prepare now to enter the temple when they are older.

Encourage understanding (discussing worthiness): Show a picture of a temple. Explain that because the temple is a holy place, only those who are worthy can enter. Tell the children that living the standards in For the Strength of Youth will prepare us to be worthy. Write some of the standards on separate wordstrips. Divide the children into groups, and give each group a wordstrip. Have each group stand and explain how living that standard will prepare them to be worthy to enter the temple.

Encourage application (playing a game): On separate pieces of paper, draw pictures of a mouth, eyes, ears, hands, and feet (sample drawings are available here). While the pianist plays “I Love to See the Temple,” have the children pass around the drawings. When the music stops, ask the children holding the pictures to tell one thing they can do with that body part to prepare to go to the temple (for example, they can pray, speak kindly, and tell the truth with their mouths). Repeat as time allows.

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Idea: I wanted to keep it pretty simple this week but still be able to demonstrate what we need to know. So basically follow the outline except for: After the children explain how living the standard helps them prepare to be worthy to enter the temple have them come place the word strip on the board creating a staircase to the temple. I would outline the staircase before hand with marker so they or you can easily just place the word strips where they go. There are 20 total. 18 if you choose not to include sexual purity and dating.

Note: I included "Dating" and "Sexual Purity" on the word strips because they were categories in "The for Strength of Youth". You may or may not want to include them in your lesson.

Preparation: Print off Temple and word strip printables below. Cut up word strips. Print off eyes, ears, hands, and feet printables here, Cut up.
In Primary draw stairs on the board leading up to where you will place the picture of the temple.

Printables
Download the pdf file here
Temple and For Strength of youth pdf file

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Sharing Time June 2014 Week 2

IDENTIFY THE DOCTRINE (singing a song): Show the children a picture of the temple nearest where you live. Invite them to sing the first verse of “I Love to See the Temple” (CS, 95). Point out the phrase “I’m going there someday,” and ask the children to listen for why Church members go to the temple as you sing together the second verse of the song. Discuss their answers and emphasize that temple ordinances make it possible for families to be together forever.

ENCOURAGE APPLICATION (drawing a picture): Give each child a piece of paper with a simple drawing of a temple on it (click here for temple drawing). Invite the children to draw their family members holding hands near the temple. Encourage them to share their pictures with their families at home.

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Ideas

Idea 1:

Use a flip chart (printables provided below) to go through the words of "I love to see the temple" Help the children identify how the song teaches us families can be together forever

IDENTIFY THE DOCTRINE (singing a song): Show the children a picture of the temple nearest where you live. Invite them to sing the first verse of “I Love to See the Temple” (CS, 95).

Point out the phrase “I’m going there someday,” and ask the children to listen for why Church members go to the temple as you sing together the song.

Show them each line on the flipchart as you discuss that portion of the song. Talk about each portion of the song specifically the following.

To feel the holy spirit to listen and to pray:

ask them what this line tells us about the temple. (perhaps that we must be reverent so we can be close to our father in heaven)

I'll covenant with my father, I"ll promise to obey:

Ask the children what a covenant is. (explain that a handshake represents a covenant because it is a symbol that we agree to do something)
Ask the children what we are promising... (to obey heavenly fathers commandments)

For the temple is a holy place, where we are sealed together:

Ask the children what being sealed together means or how we are sealed. (explain that because we are sealed through priesthood authority and this binds us together for eternity... perhaps compare sealing to a lock or the binding on a book that holds the pages together.)

As a child of god, I've learned this truth, a family is forever:

Ask the children what truth we've learned. (finish up by explaining that because we are sealed in the temple our families are forever.)

ENCOURAGE APPLICATION (drawing a picture): Give each child a piece of paper with a simple drawing of a temple on it (click here for temple drawing). Invite the children to draw their family members holding hands near the temple. Encourage them to share their pictures with their families at home.

Idea 2

Hide puzzle pieces of a temple around the room. Have the children find the pieces. One by one have the children bring the pieces to the front and read a way the temple helps our family be eternal. (Printables below)

preparation: print off puzzle printable and write clues on the back of each piece. (clues below) Hide around the primary room. Print off coloring sheet. (also can print off the flipchart if your kids don't "I love to see the temple)

IDENTIFY THE DOCTRINE: Begin by either having the children look under their chairs for a paper or by choosing a child one at a time to look around the room and find a puzzle piece. Have them come up to the front of the room and read what is on the back of the puzzle piece. (the following is what is on the back)

I go here to feel the holy spirit
I go here to Listen to my Heavenly Father
I go here to pray
This is the house of God
This is a place of love and beauty
I need to prepare my self while I'm young to enter here.
I will one day make covenants with my father here
This is a very holy place
In this place we are sealed together
Because we have these our families can be forever

As they bring up each puzzle piece discuss what they each mean. Once the puzzle is finished explain how each statement relates to the temple and forever families.

Invite them to sing the first verse of “I Love to See the Temple” (CS, 95). Point out the phrase “I’m going there someday,” and ask the children to listen for why Church members go to the temple as you sing together the second verse of the song. Discuss their answers and emphasize that temple ordinances make it possible for families to be together forever.