Elementary

Grades 1-3 Introductory Activity – Friendship Stories Materials: no materials needed Gather your children and tell them a story about something nice a friend did for you. Next, ask your children to share a story about a friend who has done something nice for them. Tell kids they will hear about two friends today. Afterward, […]

Grades 1-3 Introductory Activity – Food Challenge Materials: toy food Form several groups of kids. Ask for three volunteers to not be in a group, but to be the “food judges.” Place multiple items of toy food in the middle of all of the groups. Tell the groups that they will each choose a piece […]

Grades 1-3 Introductory Activity – Mirror Game Materials: no materials needed Group kids into pairs. Choose one kid in each pair to be the leader and the other kid to be the mirror. The leader of each pair moves his body slowly and the mirror copies the movements. After a few minutes, swap roles in […]

Grades 1-3 Introductory Activity – Missionary Introduction Materials: no materials needed Ask a missionary to share with your class about his experience telling others about Christ. Tell the kids they are going to hear from a missionary and encourage them to think of questions as they listen. Once the missionary is finished with the presentation, […]

Grades 1-3 Introductory Activity – Nighttime Mural Materials: large pieces of dark-colored paper, yellow and white construction paper, scissors, neon markers, metallic pens, glue sticks, other appropriate art materials Tape large pieces of dark paper to the walls. Place art materials near the dark paper. Lead kids to create nighttime scenes on the paper. They may […]

Grades 1-3 Introductory Activity – Letter Scramble Materials: paper squares (7 different colors of squares), marker, music CD Print the letters of the word Savior on paper squares, one letter per square. Make several sets of the word on each color, enough for every kid to have a letter. Give each child a square. Play music and […]