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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10 Fun Jokes for FHE
December can be busy and crazy! So hopefully adding these jokes to your next family home evening will lighten things up and add some laughs. A great gift to give is my favorite joke book Rejoice! Clean Humor. It has a great collection of all kinds of amusing things. FHEasy: A Year of Weekly Teachings […]
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 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 […]
FHE and Middle School
Reaping what we’ve sown My oldest daughter is almost through with her first year of middle school. I can’t tell you how grateful I have been for family home evening this year. While we’ve talked about dating, drugs, choosing friends wisely, and working hard at gaining an education before, those topics have never been so […]
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 […]
My Christmas Gift to You
I am a singer by nature. I sing daily, sometimes so much that my family asks me to hush. Music is simply my heart’s language. So, as I thought of what to post this week, I decided I wanted to share a Christmas song that is particularly meaningful to me. It’s called “Shine for Me […]
3 Tips for FHE on Halloween
Halloween is tomorrow! My kids have been looking forward to it for months. And it’s a little crazy around here. But FHE is FHE and this year it lands on Halloween. Now, normally, I don’t correlate my FHE lessons with Halloween. I mean, I guess I could kind of connect it to the idea of […]