Primary Activity

I'm so slow at getting this posted. . . this activity was February 13--and done with our previous Primary Presidency.

The theme in Primary this year is "I Know My Savior Lives". We wanted an activity to kick off that theme and help the kids gain their own testimony that Jesus Christ lives. We struggled quite a bit to figure out how to do that but when the right idea came, things pulled together seamlessly. (Love when and how that happens--so sacred--it is like Joseph Smith said "you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas") Anyway, here is what we did.

We gave each of the kids these little clue cards with magnifying glasses and pencils. They wrote their names on the detective tag. (click on picture to get a closer look)
They visited three different 'eye witnesses' of the resurrected Christ and heard of their testimonies. After they saw and heard each testimony, they marked it on their cards like in the Clue game.

Our visitors were Cleopas and a friend who were on the road to Emmaus, Joseph Smith and two Nephites who were present when Jesus Christ visited the Americas. (A BIG thank you to all of our visitors--they did a fantastic job!)

At the very end we played President Monson's testimony and explained the quote by Elder Hales that was printed on the clue card. ("We know He lives because we believe the testimonies of His ancient and living prophets, and we have felt God’s Spirit confirm that the testimonies of these prophets are true.") Then we played a little video/slide show of pictures of Jesus with the song I Know My Savior Loves Me. We talked about the feeling they were feeling. We explained that the spirit was witnessing that what they had heard and experienced that day was true--and that was their final clue.

For treats we served homemade bread with honey butter as a symbol that Jesus Christ is the bread of life. It was a fantastic activity. (Thank you Susan for the pictures!)