Want a fun way to tie family home evening to St. Patrick’s Day? How about a whole activity using THREE-leafed clovers? It’s one of my very favorite things to do for family home evening because it helps my family focus on our “small” daily blessings. Looking for and appreciating only the “big” blessings is like […]
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Favorite Images for FHE Starters
Showing pictures is a GREAT way to start or enhance your family home evenings. Below are links to some awesome images you can use for family home evening. Chocolate Treats for FHE or Valentine’s Day Since its February and the month of Valentine’s Day, love, and chocolate (at least for lots of people I know), […]
Free Thanksgiving FHE Ideas
Thanksgiving is right around the corner! It’s a busy time of year and a great time to focus on gratitude. To help you with that, here’s a free lesson sample from my latest project, a set of over 50 family home evening lessons and ideas. They are printed on cards about the size of a […]
Favorite Videos for FHE
Watching a good video can be a great way to start or enhance a family home evening. Here are links to three of my favorite videos on the temple, a kid-friendly introduction to pornography, and what Elder Uchtdorf always keeps in his pockets. Enjoy! “Focus on the Temple” used in FHEasy’s “Agency and Accountability” lesson, […]
Free Seminary FHE Ideas
Ever thought of doing a family home evening on seminary? Here’s a link to a free supplemental FHEasy lesson on seminary, meaning that this lesson is done in the format of the FHEasy lessons but wasn’t included in the book. Check it out! Highlights are below. Seminary is a great place for teens to develop […]
Favorite Quotes to Use for FHE Starters
Sometimes all you need is a good quote to get family home evening going. Here are three of my favorites on kindness, gratitude, and the temple that can be good discussion starters. At the end is one of my favorite quotes about family home evening. Enjoy! President Monson on Kindness used in FHEasy’s lesson on […]
Free Independence Day FHE Ideas
The United States Independence Day is next week! Here’s a free, fast FHE on to help you celebrate! It’s one of the family home evening ideas from my newest project: Family Night Made Easy: A Year of Instant Lessons and Uplifting Activities. All 52+ recipe-card-sized cards are formatted like the one on the right. The […]
Favorite FHEasy Object Lessons
Object Lessons: A Great Teaching Method Object lessons win the prize for a memorable family teaching method. An object lesson is a lesson where a physical object is used to illustrate a point. Here are my personal favorites: The Floating Orange, Is It Immersed?, Both Sides of the Stick, and Just Pick Up the Treat […]
When Dad Wants to Help with FHE…
I just wanted to pop in and share one quick tip for FHE-dominant spouses. What’s that? Well, one spouse usually just heads FHE naturally; I call that spouse the “FHE-dominant spouse”. Often it’s the wife, but not always. If it’s you, please take a quick tip from me and don’t make the same mistakes I […]
Quick Video for FHE Tonight!
Wow! Wasn’t general conference amazing? In the last talk of conference, Elder Cook said: If there is one preeminent objective of general conference, it is to build faith in God the Father and our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. The talks that I heard definitely helped me feel closer to Heavenly Father, the Savior, and […]