Come Follow Me 8/5/2024 – Devotionals & FHE for Children

Sunday Ideas for Kids for Come Follow Me 8/5

Use Sundays for a time of reflection; share what you discussed that day in each of your classes.  Did you learn anything new or hear a different perspective about what you studied this week?

If you went to a class that did not use the Come, Follow Me 8/5 Manual, then share what stood out to you the most in your class.

Take a few minutes to talk about what parts of Sacrament Meeting you felt like were meant for you

If your younger children are struggling during Sacrament Meeting, try using these Ideas and Activities to Keep Toddlers and Kids Quiet During Church

Here are some activities that go along with this week’s topic in Come Follow Me 8/5

Sunday Kids Activities for Come Follow Me 8/5

• Do this week’s free activity pages from Color Me Christian (or do them in the workbook if you purchased it from Amazon).
• Watch “To Look Upon” about King David and pornography. Pause the video each time that David could have made a different choice. How are David’s choices similar to choices you might face?
• Read Bradley R. Wilcox, “Worthiness Is Not Flawlessness,” Liahona, Nov. 2021, 61–67.
• Watch “Lessons I Learned as a Boy”
• Go through some of these articles from the Friend magazine about pornography.  Choose ones that are approprate for your children and discuss them.
• “Be Thou an Example” (November 2010 Friend). Decipher this code to find out how you can be an example.
• Read “Treehouse” (August 2003 Friend). Have there ever been times when people around you were being disobedient and it was hard for you to be a good example? Discuss how Jordan reacts and how you could follow his example in similar situations.
• Watch the video “The Jar” about justice and mercy when a young man went away to college.
• “Let Your Light Shine” (October 2007 Friend). A hidden word puzzle.
• Read “Only 10 Dollars” by Emma C. Miller. Discuss the way in which you have seen mercy in your lives. Testify of the importance of the atonement of Jesus Christ and how only through His mercy we can satisfy justice and live with our Heavenly Father.
• Watch “Forgiveness: My Burden Was Made Light“
• Watch Elder Holland’s video about justice, love, and mercy when two boys  try to climb a cliff without ropes.
• Look at this visual aid that shows what Alma explained to Corianton about good being restored to good and evil to evil.
• Choosing the Right Through Study and Prayer– Maze
• My Choices Have Consequences- Make this wheel to find out the consequences for various actions
• Choose the Right– Find the matching pictures.
• Play a game or sing a song in which the children follow or imitate you, such as “Do as I’m Doing” (Children’s Songbook, 276). Let each child have a turn being the leader or example. Ask the children how they can be a good example to someone.
• Show the children the two bags or boxes, and explain that one has something undesirable in it and the other has something desirable in it. Show one of the children what is in the boxes. Tell the other children that they can ask the child yes or no questions about the items (with the exception of directly asking which is the good or bad container) until they can decide which is the good choice. Ask the children if it helped to talk to someone who was informed about which was the bad choice and which was the good choice. Point out that it also helps to counsel with those who are experienced in righteous living in order to get help and direction in making good choices in life.
• Demonstrate this with an empty toilet paper roll or paper towel roll. Shove the dirt covered paper towels into the cardboard roll. Ask what would happen if you continued to shove dirty paper towels into the roll. (They would come out the other end.) What happens when we fill our minds with things that are unclean? They come out and manifest themselves through unclean actions.  Show another toilet paper roll and fill it with clean paper towels and ask the children what will come out the other end. Explain that the clean paper towels represents doing things like going to church, participating in church activities, reading our scriptures, participating in family home evening, etc. When we fill our lives with things that are good and uplifting, our thoughts and actions become clean. Corianton should have spent his time doing his missionary work which would have helped him keep his thoughts clean.